COIMBATORE: A. Sadiq, alias ‘Tailor Raja’, a key accused in the 1998 Coimbatore serial bomb blasts, was arrested on Wednesday in Vijayapura, Karnataka, after evading arrest for 27 years. He was apprehended by Coimbatore police from his shop in a local...

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KANPUR: An eight-year-old boy’s chilling courtroom testimony helped convict his mother, Priyanka, 30, who was sentenced to death on Thursday for drowning her three younger sons in the Sengur river in Uttar Pradesh’s Auraiya district last year. The court found that she...

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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear an urgent plea seeking a directive to the Centre to intervene diplomatically to save an Indian nurse, Nimisha Priya, who is facing execution in Yemen. The hearing has been scheduled for July 14, just two days...

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NEW DELHI: A Delhi CBI court on Tuesday sentenced industrialist Manoj Kumar Jayaswal to three years of rigorous imprisonment for using forged documents to secure the Mahuagarhi coal block in Jharkhand for JAS Infrastructure and Capital Private Limited, where he was...

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ROHTAK: Thousands gathered in Rohtak on Thursday to bid a heartfelt farewell to Squadron Leader Lokender Singh Sindhu, who lost his life alongside Flight Lieutenant Rishi Raj Singh in a Jaguar fighter jet crash in Rajasthan on Wednesday. The two Indian Air Force...

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NEW DELHI: The nationwide strike called by trade unions on Wednesday had minimal impact across sectors, with the highest absenteeism observed in the banking industry, where around 33% of employees stayed away from work. Data from 20 major cities, compiled by the...

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