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07 Sep 2018

Health & Wellness

#HealthBytes: 5 yoga asanas to help you gain healthy weight

Healthy weight management is crucial to keeping risks associated with being underweight at bay. These include bone weakening, osteoporosis, anemia, weak immunity, pregnancy complications, among others.

07 Sep 2018

Jet Airways

Air India flight lands at under-construction runway, by mistake

On Friday evening, an Air India flight from Thiruvananthapuram to the Maldives ended up landing on an unoperational runway in Velana International Airport.

07 Sep 2018

India

Bombay-HC disapproves practice of people writing directly to PM, President

The Bombay High Court deprecated today the practice of people writing directly to the Prime Minister, the President, or the Chief Minister making wide allegations against certain persons instead of following due process of law.

07 Sep 2018

Assam

Man convicted of gangrape, murder of minor gets death penalty

A court in Assam today awarded death penalty to Zakir Hussain, the prime accused in the gangrape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in the state's Nagaon district in March.

07 Sep 2018

India

India-US talks: Is an 'Asian NATO' on the cards?

The signing of the defense communication agreement between India and the US yesterday marks a significant development in India-US relations.

07 Sep 2018

India

Champion the idea of 'clean kilometers', says PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has unveiled a mobility roadmap that seeks investments in manufacturing electric vehicles and increased use of public transport for travel, saying congestion-free mobility is critical to check economic and environmental costs of congestion.

07 Sep 2018

Mumbai

This Mumbai man churns out portraits using a typewriter!

For today's generation, typewriter is probably just a word, but for this Mumbai man, it's his favorite pet.

07 Sep 2018

Karnataka

Two Bengaluru construction companies donate Rs. 2cr to Lord Venkateswara

Two Bengaluru based construction companies together made an offering of Rs. 2 crore today to the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara at Tirumala, Andhra Pradesh.

07 Sep 2018

India

WCD invites nominations for Nari Shakti Puraskar 2018

The Women and Child Development Ministry have invited nominations for this year's 'Nari Shakti Puraskar', the highest civilian honor for women in India.

Comply with orders on cow vigilantism: SC to states

The Supreme Court on Friday gave a week's time to the states that haven't filed a report on the incidents of cow vigilantism and mob lynching as per its July 17 orders. Only 11 out of 29 states and Union territories have filed their reports.

07 Sep 2018

India

Two suspected terrorists of ISIS-linked outfit arrested near Red Fort

The Delhi police arrested two suspected terrorists belonging to a group having allegiance to the ISIS, on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, it has been reported.

07 Sep 2018

India

#ClosetsNoMore: Mumbai man's Facebook post on coming out goes viral

It was all cheers and happy tears in the compound of Supreme Court and the country, in general, on Thursday as the apex court declared homosexuality was no longer a crime in India.

07 Sep 2018

India

UPSC exam: Paper pattern and stages of the IAS exam

The Indian Civil Services exam, commonly referred to as the IAS exam, is conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) each year.

07 Sep 2018

Jammu And Kashmir

Omar Abdullah criticizes timing of replacing J&K DGP Vaid

Former CM of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah has criticized the timing of changing J&K DGP, saying there was no hurry to replace SP Vaid and the State Police could do without having to deal with the confusion of leadership.

07 Sep 2018

India

Another bridge collapses in West Bengal, truck driver injured

An old bridge collapsed near Siliguri, West Bengal today, leaving a truck driver injured.

07 Sep 2018

Health & Wellness

#HealthBytes: 5 reasons to quit soft drinks now

You might be in love with your sodas and may consider them the best accompaniment to your burgers and fries (we'll get to that later), but they perhaps don't go as well with your health.

07 Sep 2018

India

Can't take back chocolate from kid immediately: Mahajan on SC/ST Act

Amid widespread anger, including calls of 'Bharat bandh', against the amendment to the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan said that the issue must not be politicized and all political parties should get together to discuss the issue.

07 Sep 2018

India

How to avail discounts, cashbacks on online train ticket bookings

In what comes as good news to Indian Railways passengers, various online e-wallet service providers like Paytm and PhonePe are offering attractive discounts and cashback offers for booking railway tickets online, this festive season.

07 Sep 2018

Kerala

#RaggingWoes: Student hospitalized after being thrashed by seniors

In a disturbing incident, a first-year-student of a technology institute in the district of Idukki in Kerala had to be hospitalized after he was thrashed mercilessly by seniors during a ragging session.

07 Sep 2018

India

Health Ministry to rename drug regulator CDSCO; invites suggestions

The Union Health Ministry has invited suggestions for renaming the country's drug regulator CDSCO in line with its expanded roles.

07 Sep 2018

Mumbai

Mumbai: Fire breaks in Kamala Mills compound, no casualties reported

Months after a massive fire in Kamala Mills compound killed many, a fire broke out in the area on Friday, and visuals of the incident have surfaced on social media.

07 Sep 2018

Jammu And Kashmir

Kashmir abductions: DGP SP Vaid removed from post

Following a spate of abductions by terrorists that saw family members of policemen getting kidnapped, Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP) SP Vaid, on Thursday, was removed from his post.

07 Sep 2018

Maharashtra

Maharashtra: Man accused of sexually harassing, torturing teenage sister acquitted

A court in Thane, Maharashtra has acquitted a 20-year-old man accused of sexually harassing and torturing his minor sister.

07 Sep 2018

Uttar Pradesh

Ghaziabad: Denied ambulance, 3-day-old dies; hospital blames mother's breastfeeding

A protest was staged outside MMG Government Hospital, Ghaziabad, on Thursday after a three-day-old baby died, allegedly, because the hospital didn't provide an ambulance.

07 Sep 2018

India

Is the Gaganyaan mission a politically motivated vanity project?

On August 15, PM Narendra Modi announced, to the world's surprise and, ironically, to ISRO's surprise, that India would send its astronauts to space by 2022.

06 Sep 2018

Tamil Nadu

Brain-dead teen's liver transported from Tirunelveli to Coimbatore in 4hrs

The liver of a brain-dead teenage boy was transplanted to a needy patient in Coimbatore on Thursday, after the police created a green corridor for a distance of 350 km from Tirunelveli, enabling the organ to be transported within four hours.

06 Sep 2018

Madhya Pradesh

MP: Railways to create infrastructure to preserve Patalpani-Kalakund rail line

The Railways today announced that it would create an infrastructure to preserve the British-era Patalpani-Kalakund meter gauge rail line which is part of Western Railway's Ratlam division in Madhya Pradesh.

06 Sep 2018

Maharashtra

PepsiCo to install plastic crushing machines across Maharashtra in 2yrs

Food and beverages firm PepsiCo India is planning to install reverse vending machines to crush PET plastic bottles in all the 36 districts of Maharashtra over the next two years, as part of its plastic waste management initiative, a top executive said.

06 Sep 2018

Rajnath Singh

Arunachal govt sanctions Rs. 15 lakh each for flood victims

The Arunachal Pradesh Disaster Management Department has sanctioned Rs. 15L each for victims, who lost their houses in Siang river floods at Mebo sub-division under East Siang district.

06 Sep 2018

India

#LoveIsLove: How not to be a homophobic person

Now that the honorable Supreme Court has decriminalized gay sex, it's time for all of us to throw homophobia out of our lives.

06 Sep 2018

Celebrity

Telly actor found hanging in hotel room in West Bengal

Television actor Payal Chakraborty has been found hanging in a hotel room in Siliguri, North Bengal, under mysterious circumstances, police said.

06 Sep 2018

Delhi Police

38-year-old man absconding for 14 years arrested in Delhi

A 38-year-old man, who was absconding for 14 years, was arrested in Delhi, police said on Wednesday.

06 Sep 2018

India

Srijan scam: I-T department raids Sushil Modi's sister's house

On Thursday, the Income Tax Department started search operations at eight places in Bihar, including the house of Bihar deputy CM Sushil Modi's cousin, in connection with the Rs. 880cr Srijan scam.

06 Sep 2018

India

Homosexuality not a crime, but same-sex marriage is unnatural: RSS

Homosexuality is not a crime, the RSS said on Thursday, while maintaining that it doesn't support same-sex marriage as it was "not natural".

06 Sep 2018

India

Life remains unaffected in UP despite Bharat Bandh call

Life remained normal across Uttar Pradesh on Thursday despite a 'Bharat Bandh' call by some upper-caste groups against the recent amendment approved by Parliament to overturn a Supreme Court judgment on the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

06 Sep 2018

India

If Pakistan stops terrorism, we'll shake hands: Army Chief Rawat

"If Pakistan stops terrorism, the Army would also be like Neeraj Chopra," Army Chief General Bipin Rawat has said, referring to the Asian Games javelin gold medallist's gesture of reaching out to his Pakistani competitor.

06 Sep 2018

India

Beyond Section 377: Looking at prominent judgment of CJI Misra

Heading a constitutional bench which read down Section 377 of the IPC, CJI Dipak Misra scripted history.

06 Sep 2018

Maharashtra

Thane: Autorickshaw driver arrested for killing sister's lover

A 23-year-old auto-rickshaw driver was arrested on Thursday in Thane, Maharashtra for allegedly killing a man who was in love with the former's sister, police said.

Bhima-Koregaon violence: SC extends activists' house arrest till September 12

Hearing a petition filed by historian Romila Thapar against the arrests of five activists in connection with the Elgaar Parishad meeting and the subsequent Bhima-Koregaon violence, the Supreme Court has extended the house arrest of the activists till September 12.

06 Sep 2018

India

#RainbowTakesOver: Looking at judge's statements on landmark Section 377 judgement

The five-judge bench unanimously read down Section 377 of the IPC making 'Pride' the color of the season.