The first package was to be set up in the areas tentatively identified in Zanskar sub-division and Taisuru block of Kargil district.

AES is an umbrella term for infections that cause swelling in the brain. Muzaffarpur, Vaishali, East Champaran, Sheohar and Sitamarhi were the worst-hit districts this time.

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On August 27, Chinmayanand, who has denied the charges, was booked under Sections 364 (kidnapping or abducting in order to murder) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC based on the father’s complaint.

Jail officials said the Kashmiri prisoners are lodged in barracks that are separate from other sections. They said meetings with their families might also be set up at a different time and place from those for other prisoners.

Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said states were well within their rights to reduce fines but they will have to “bear the consequences”.

The Pune Police has so far booked 23 people in connection with the case and arrested nine prominent activists and lawyers. Police have alleged that the arrested suspects have links to Maoist organisations.

It is likely that touchdown occurred at a much higher velocity than the “stringent touchdown requirement of 5 m/s in vertical and horizontal velocity” or less, as specified by ISRO in the planning phase.

The sales of cars and utility vehicles witnessed the worst monthly decline in August, with domestic sales of passenger vehicles falling 31.6 per cent.

Without naming Pakistan, India said this “fabricated narrative” comes from the “epicentre of global terrorism”, where “ringleaders were sheltered for years”.

NAFED has been tasked with purchasing all the apples that growers bring to sell at mandis in the Valley. A bumper crop, for which there would hardly be any private buyers with all the current movement restrictions, makes it all the more challenging.

Sources in the Home Ministry said the government has decided to procure about 12 metric tonnes of apples directly from local mandis in Srinagar, Anantnag and Baramulla.

After the woman passed out, the accused allegedly took her to a room in Kamathipura, where he allegedly raped her, the police said.

According to police, the accused, Irshad Qureshi, runs Pakeezah mutton shop in Dindoshi, which is usually surrounded by stray dogs, which forage on meat scraps.

DCP (Crime Branch) Dr Ram Gopal Naik said, “Singh was arrested Friday from his residence in Vasant Kunj, and was in police custody for three days.” He was produced before a court Monday, and released on bail.

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Over 90% of these jobs come on account of Shishu loans which has the smallest ticket size of up to Rs 50,000, according to the Draft Report of Mudra Survey reviewed by The Indian Express.

Citing the “final post-mortem report” that Ansari died of “cardiac arrest”, and stating that it was “not a case of pre-meditated murder”, police filed the chargesheet last month under Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder).

The student said she had evidence against Chinmayanand in her hostel room, which has been sealed. “I have all the proof. The hostel room should be opened,” she said, adding that she would produce the proof at an appropriate time.

The Indian Express has learnt that when the DPCC inspected 43 out of a list of 80 centres sent to them by the CPCB, at least 20 e-waste collection centres of multinational giants, including Samsung, HP, Canon and Vivo, were found either untraceable or non-existent.

While there was no official response from New Delhi, India has sent a team of senior officials, including Indian envoy to Pakistan Ajay Bisaria, to frame the government’s response during the UNHRC deliberations as Pakistan is planning to raise the Kashmir issue.

This comes even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing the 14th Conference of Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification on Monday, mentioned that “we are focusing on ZBNF”.

‘No illegal migrant will be allowed... will take all N-E states into confidence’, says the Home Minister.

The infant girl was handed over by the mother to a family allegedly for Rs 10,000, as she needed the money for her treatment and for her ailing husband’s.