7 Bodies Recovered from Fire-Hit Chemical Unit in Surat

The collector said 24 people who were injured in the incident are currently receiving treatment in different hospitals

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With LS Polls Round the Corner, Rahul Gandhi Calls Kerala, Wayanad as Home

"I consider it like coming back to my family and meeting my friends. The more I come to Kerala and Wayanad, the more I feel that it is my home," the Congress MP from Wayanad stated

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Sunanda Pushkar Death: HC to Hear Arguments on Delhi Police’s Plea Against Order Discharging Shashi Tharoor in Jan

Sunanda Pushkar Death: The matter was listed for hearing before a bench of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma. However, as the judge was on leave due to her ill health, the hearing against Shashi Tharoor got deferred to January 16, 2024

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Bengaluru: Doctor, Who Allegedly Performed Around 900 Illegal Abortions, Arrested

Police busted the sex-determination and female foeticide racket last month with the arrest of two accused

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"Supreme Court Has Acted As A People's Court": Chief Justice Of India

The Supreme Court has acted as a "people's court" and citizens should not be afraid of going to courts or view it as the last resort, Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud said on Sunday.

Justice Chandrachud said just as the Constitution allows us to resolve political differences through established democratic institutions and processes, the court system helps in resolving many disagreements through established principles and processes.

"In this way, every case in every court in the country is an extension of constitutional governance," the CJI said while speaking at the inauguration of the Constitution Day celebrations at the Supreme Court.

President Droupadi Murmu delivered the inaugural address at the programme, which was also attended by Supreme Court judges Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Sanjiv Khanna, Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal and others.

In his address, the CJI said, "In the last seven decades, the Supreme Court of India has acted as a people's court. Thousands of citizens have approached its doors with the faith that they will get justice through this institution".

He said citizens come to court to seek the protection of their personal liberty, accountability against unlawful arrests, protection of rights of bonded labourers, tribals seeking protection of their homelands, prevention of social evils such as manual scavenging and even hoping for interference to get clean air.

"These cases are not just citations or statistics for the court. These cases resemble the expectations of people from the Supreme Court as well as the court's own commitment to deliver justice to the citizens," Justice Chandrachud said.

He said the Supreme Court was perhaps the only court in the world where any citizen can set in motion the constitutional machinery of the Supreme Court simply by writing to the CJI.

Apart from ensuring that citizens get justice through its judgements, the Supreme Court has been making continuous endeavours to ensure that its administrative processes are citizen-centric so that people feel the connection with the working of courts, he said.

While highlighting the steps taken for dealing with the issue of overcrowding in prisons which was flagged by the President on Constitution Day last year, the CJI said the goal behind these initiatives was to ensure that people feel that the constitutional institution of judiciary was working for them.

"Individuals should not be afraid of going to courts or view it as the last resort. Rather it is my hope that by our efforts, citizens of every class, caste and creed can repose trust in our court system and view it as a fair and effective forum to enforce the rights," he said.

"Sometimes, we as a society may frown on litigation as a disreputable entanglement. But just as the Constitution allows us to resolve our political differences through established democratic institutions and processes, our court system helps resolve our many disagreements through established principles and processes," he said.

Justice Chandrachud said courts were now live-streaming their proceedings and this decision was taken with a view that citizens should know what was happening inside courtrooms.

"Constant media reporting about proceedings of courts indicates the engagement of the public with the working of the courtrooms," he said, adding, that the top court also took a decision to translate its verdicts to regional languages with the help of Artificial Intelligence and machine learning.

"As of November 25, 2023, the Supreme Court has delivered 36,068 judgements in English from the date of its first sitting. But proceedings in our district courts are not conducted in English," he said.

The CJI said all of these judgements were available for free on the e-SCR platform, which was launched in January this year.

"Today, we are launching the e-SCR in Hindi as 21,388 judgements have been translated into Hindi, vetted and uploaded on the e-SCR portal," he said.

Besides, 9,276 verdicts as of last evening have been translated into other Indian languages, including Punjabi, Tamil, Gujarati, Marathi, Malayalam, Bengali and Urdu, he said.

Talking about technology and its use by the judiciary, he spoke about the launch of 'e-sewa kendras' in all courts to ensure that no citizen was left behind in the judicial process.

"Technology is not meant to distance us from our citizens but to take us into the lives of our citizens. We embrace our citizens as co-equal partners in a shared national endeavour," he said.

The CJI said on Constitution Day last year, the President had raised concerns over overcrowding of prisons and incarceration of citizens from marginalised backgrounds.

"...I want to assure you (President) that we are constantly working to ensure that legal processes become easier and simplified so that citizens don't languish in jails unnecessarily," he said.

Justice Chandrachud said version 2.0 of the Fast and Secured Transmission of Electronic Records (FASTER) application would be launched Sunday and it ensures that judicial order of release of a person was immediately transferred to jail authorities, district courts and high courts via electronic means so that person was released on time.

The CJI said he has also tasked the Centre for Research and Planning of the Supreme Court to come up with a project to improve the conditions of jails and to improve on obsolete prison manuals.

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West Bengal: Man Slits Wife's Throat For Making Social Media Friends and Posting Reels

The neighbours called the cops and said that Parimal using a vegetable cutter attacked his wife, who later succumbed to the injuries. 

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Tiger Dies of Electrocution in MP's Shahdol; 11 Held on Poaching Charges

A 15-day-old carcass of a tiger was recovered by a forest patrolling party on Thursday, following which 11 persons were arrested on the charges of poaching, divisional forest officer (DFO) Shraddha Pandre said

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AAP Leader Satyendar Jain's Interim Bail Extended by SC Till December 4

The ED had arrested the AAP leader on May 30 last year on the charge of money laundering through four companies allegedly linked to him.

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CRPF Constable Injured in IED Blast in Jharkhand

The condition of the constable was stated to be stable, police said, adding that the combing operation in Maosist-affected areas was still on

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Melissa Barrera's Role In 'Scream VII' Terminated Over Pro-Palestine Posts

Mexican actor Melissa Barrera, known for her roles in the fifth and sixth installments of the 'Scream' franchise, has reportedly been terminated from 'Scream VII' due to her Instagram posts concerning the Israel-Hamas conflict. The 33-year-old actress had joined the iconic slasher series in 2022 alongside Jenna Ortega. Sources confirmed on Tuesday (21 November) that Spyglass Media dropped Barrera from the forthcoming sequel over her Israel-Hamas war posts perceived as anti-Semitic. This unexpected departure comes after Barrera's involvement in the successful revival of the 'Scream' franchise, marking a significant change in the cast dynamics for the upcoming installment.

According to Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, the actress, 33, will no longer appear in the horror franchise's upcoming seventh film.

"Spyglass' stance is unequivocally clear: We have zero tolerance for antisemitism or the incitement of hate in any form, including false references to genocide, ethnic cleansing, Holocaust distortion or anything that flagrantly crosses the line into hate speech," a Spyglass spokesperson told Variety.

As per People, in one written message from her Instagram Story quoted in the report and circulating social media after the news, Barrera allegedly wrote, "I have been actively looking for videos and information about the Palestinian side for the last 2 weeks or so, following accounts etc. Why? Because Western media only shows the other side. Why they do that, I will let you deduce for yourself."

Barrera played Sam Carpenter in both Scream 2022 and Scream VI this year. Her character was introduced as the daughter of Scream villain Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich). As the new franchise lead, the character was supposed to follow in the footsteps of Neve Campbell's Sidney Prescott.

Barrera's Sam is older sister to Tera, played by Jenna Ortega.

Along with Barrera and Ortega, the Scream VI cast included Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, Courteney Cox, and Hayden Panettiere from Scream IV. (While Neve Campbell and David Arquette appeared in the fifth Scream, Campbell did not return for the sixth due to a contractual issue.)

The seventh Scream is set to be directed by Happy Death Day director Christopher Landon. Landon is taking over from Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett after their co-directing roles in both Scream (2022) and Scream VI, reported People.

(With inputs from ANI)

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At This Karnataka Temple, A Peacock Has Been Dancing For Six Years

The priest of the temple, Rajesh Bhatt, has presented a silver anklet to this peacock which he tied to the bird on the occasion of Navratri.

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'One Nation, One Election' in National Interest, Nothing to Do With Any Party: Kovind

The government constituted the high-level eight-member committee, headed by Kovind, earlier this year

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Maratha Community Wants Its Rightful Reservation: Activist Jarange

Jarange said that the government will not be given any more time over this issue

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Halal Trust To Move Court Against Yogi Govt's Decision to Ban Certification

The Uttar Pradesh government last week banned production, storage, distribution and sale of food products with halal certification with immediate effect while exempting products manufactured for export

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Delhi LG Approves Land Acquisition for Barapullah Project, Orders Inquiry into Delay, Cost Escalation

According to officials, Saxena has asked the chief secretary to conduct an inquiry into the erred planning and assessment of land requirements that led to the project delay and cost escalation by Rs 362 crore

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Punjab Dear Diwali Bumper Lottery 2023 on November 18; First Prize Rs. 2.5 Crore!

Punjab Dear Diwali Bumper 2023: WATCH the winning numbers of today's lottery in real time here from 6pm.

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Sites Reserved for Playgrounds & Parks Are City's Lungs, Need to be Preserved: Madras HC

Through the PIL plea, the Koval Pudur Resident Welfare Association alleged that the public utility sites are being used for other purposes and lands are being sold by inviting tenders

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Husband Requesting In-Laws for Money to Secure Job With Repayment Assurance is Not Dowry Demand: Orissa HC

The court found that though the deceased had died within 7 years of marriage, there was no clinching evidence to prove that she had been subjected to harassment for dowry demand

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Delhi Pollution: Stubble Burning Surges Again Despite SC Ban, City Remains Under Grip of Toxic Smog

The satellites have detected a spike in fire counts over the last three days. As many as 3,065 fire counts have been recorded across the neighbouring states on Wednesday

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‘Incriminating Facts’ against Chief Secy in Dwarka E-way Case: Report; AAP Govt Asks CBI, ED to Probe

According to sources, the preliminary investigative report unveils a conspiracy by senior officers of Delhi’s Vigilance Department including the chief secretary to undervalue the scale of the scam at Rs 312 crore. The actual compensation award would have resulted in an illicit gain of Rs 850 crore to the beneficiaries

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Indore, India's Cleanest City, Turns Spick & Span Within Hours of PM Modi's Rally

Living up to its reputation, Indore roads turned spick and span within hours of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's massive roadshow.

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Pampore's Saffron Harvest: A Bumper Crop Marks the Return of Kashmiri Excellence

Pampore, an area in Kashmir renowned as 'Saffron Town,' is flourishing with the saffron crocus. This year's crop is abundant after a lapse of at least 5 years. While climate change had previously affected their crop, this year has seen a remarkable difference.

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Post-Diwali Pollution: Delhi Tops World's Most Polluted Cities; Kolkata, Mumbai Also in Top 10

Post-Diwali, New Delhi, Kolkata, and Mumbai face severe pollution. Air quality index reaches hazardous levels. Urgent measures needed for cleaner air

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Review: Tiger 3 - Salman-Katrina Show Stays On Rails For The Most Part

It is overlong, overheated and over the top. But is that the end of the story. No. Who expects a Tiger to change his stripes? In his third outing as superspy Avinash Singh Rathore alias Tiger, Salman Khan, with aid of a story by producer Aditya Chopra and a screenplay from Shridhar Raghavan, proves that there is always a great deal of purchase from the spectacle of an irrepressible hero leaping off all kinds of perches and landing on his feet.

The lead actor's star power comes in handy, but Tiger 3 (like Pathaan and unlike War) is gender-agnostic. Katrina Kaif is allowed almost as much of the action as the invincible Tiger, whose death-defying feats return in the third instalment in a bigger and more brazen form.

It bears no repetition that the heroine, herself an agent with a mean streak, gets a major action sequence all to herself in a Turkish hamam attired in a towel as she goes head-to-head against a deadly Chinese agent and martial arts instructor (played by American stuntwoman-actress Michelle Lee). The two deliver loads of cool. If nothing else, the two spotless towels add an extra layer to the film.

The YRF spy universe is obviously not meant for those that look for realistic, close-to-the-bones espionage thrillers but for everyone else (whether you Salman and swag) there is a lot in here. For good measure, the villain in this film isn't just another scowling, growling Pakistani agent. He gives the hero a run for his money.

The bad guy does not fail to declare his intention to wipe India off the face of the earth – that is only to be expected – but he is anything but a single-not adversarial figure thanks to the writing and the steady performance that Emraan Hashmi comes up with.

The action in the first half of the film belongs more to the stunt doubles than to the two stars. In the second, things balance out and Salman and Katrina jump in – yes, jump is the operative word – and are joined by another superstar of the universe returning a favour that he received in his previous film of the thriving genre.

Tiger 3, directed by Maneesh Sharma, takes only three sequences to spell out what it is going to be about. It opens with Zoya's (Katrina Kaif) origin story. It is brief, to the point and plays out in London at the turn of the millennium. The prelude also introduces a character that is destined to quickly acquire a larger-than-life aura, if only a little less than that of the titular hero.

Sequence 2 has R&AW chief Maithili Menon (Revathy) sending Tiger on a quick rescue operation aptly called Mission Timepass. If ‘timepass' is what Tiger 3 wants to be, it succeeds in achieving that end – and then some.

Cut to the next sequence. The man that Tiger has been charged with rescuing from a land from where no Indian agent has ever come out alive insists that there was nothing ‘personal' in his act of firing at the agency's go-to all-weather, all-terrain man.

The rest of the story takes on personal proportions for Tiger and Zoya on one hand and a former ISI agent, Aatish Rehman (Emraan Hashmi), on the other. The battle is between truth and half-truth, between betrayal and redemption, between blackmail and resistance, between democracy and dictatorship, and between double agents and genuine comrades.

The most noteworthy aspect of Tiger 3, which pans out in Istanbul, St. Petersburg, Vienna, Islamabad and a high-security prison in a mountainous part of Pakistan, is that Tiger, Zoya and their team do not fight a nation as a whole but only a bunch of renegades in the ISI and the Army who are out to stage a coup against the country's peacenik prime minister, Nasreen Irani (Simran).

It is a significant reversal of a well-worn formula. The rulers of Pakistan and its people have often been projected as separate entities in Hindi action films. In Tiger 3, a distinction is additionally made between a democratically elected ruler and rogue elements within the nation's army and intelligence establishment who are out to dislodge her.

In what is a major expansion of the notion of a surgical strike, a lot of crucial action scenes are staged in the prime ministerial enclave in the Pakistani capital – in its kitchen, its bunker and its stables – on the nation's Independence Day.

The developments that lead Tiger, his wife and their mates, including Rakesh Chaurasia (Kumud Mishra) and Anand Rao (Anant Vidhaat), there forms the crux of the story. In its folds are plot details about what happens to the spy-couple's son, Junior (Sartaaj Kakkar), and a pregnant Pakistani agent, Shaheen (Riddhi Dogra in a cameo), to whom two key characters are directly related.

Watching Tiger 3 demands a willingness to turn a blind eye to occasional lapses in logic and the monotony that some of the action blocks engender, especially when they overstay their welcome. All of them do just that sooner or later. Tiger 3 would have been better served had the editing been sharper.

In the jungle that Tiger inhabits, the laws are clear. Half measures aren't welcome. Everything that this espionage thriller assembles is multiplied by three at the very least and delivered with abandon. Take it or lump it.

Tiger 3 is the sort of film where action frequently overshadows acting. The stunt choreographers, the cinematographer (Anay Goswami) and the VFX team deserve unstinted ovation. Each of the action high points contribute to keeping the film galloping until, as has been pointed out earlier in this review, they are in danger of being snuffed out by overkill.

All the technical razzmatazz that the film rides on would have come to naught without the presence of a star or two who can add lustre, if only of a superficial kind, to the exercise. Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif do not disappoint even when Tiger 3 isn't exactly as fleet as a feline on its feet.

Amid the fireworks that is perhaps befitting for a Diwali release, at least two performances in Tiger 3 amount to more than just surround sound – the ones that Revathy and Simran deliver. In a Salman and Katrina show, they demonstrate that there is great value in pre-spy universe methods of fleshing out characters.

Since the spies are here to stay, as are the explosions, gunfights and hand-to-hand combats that come with the territory, we might as well get used to it. Tiger 3 might help. It is a film that, for the most part, stays on the rails.

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7 Years' Jail 'High' for Offence of Causing Death by Negligence, Says Par Panel

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs observed that the 10-year jail suggested in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for those who cause death of a person by rash or negligent act and escape from the scene of the incident or fail to report the incident to police or a magistrate, needed to further be deliberated

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Case Filed Against 18 Over Mahadev Betting App Row

The Noida Police has booked 18 accused in the Mahadev App case under the provisions of the Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act.

Noida Commissioner of Police Lakshmi Singh has acted against 18 people after registering a case at the Sector 39 police station. Noida Police had also written to the government to ban the app.

The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) is investigating Mahadev Book Online Betting APP syndicate in which the promoters of this betting syndicate are allegedly sitting abroad and remotely running thousands of panel across India with the help of their friends and associates.

According to the ED it has already arrested 4 accused persons and seized proceeds of crime worth more than Rs 450 Crore and has filed a prosecution complaint against 14 accused persons.

On November 2 ED received intelligence input that large amount of Cash is being moved in Chhattisgarh by the promoters of Mahadev APP in relation to Assembly Elections scheduled on 7th & 17th of November, 2023.

ED conducted searches at Hotel Triton and another location in Bhilai and successfully intercepted a Cash Courier Asim Das who was allegedly sent from UAE especially, to deliver large amount of Cash for electioneering expenses of the ruling Congress Party.

ED claims that from the questioning of Asim Das, and from the forensic examination of the phone recovered from him, and examination of an email sent by one of the high ranking accused of Mahadev network many startling allegations have come forth, namely, that regular payments have allegedly been made in the past and so far around Rs 508 Crore have been paid by Mahadev APP Promoters to Bhupesh Baghel, Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh. These are subject matter of investigation.

Reacting to the allegations, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel had said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has accepted defeat in Chhattisgarh and the central agencies will take a short break and return to raid again before the Lok Sabha election.

Voting for the first phase of the Chhattisgarh Assembly polls for 20 seats in the state's southern region was held on Tuesday amid tight security. Of the 20 constituencies that witnessed polling, 12 were from the Bastar division.

Chhattisgarh, which has a 90-member House, is undergoing elections in two phases, with the second phase scheduled for November 17.

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No Vending, Hawking in Connaught Place: Delhi HC

The bench, also comprising Justice Mini Pushkarna, observed that the situation which arose in Nehru Market in 2021 — when fire tenders could not access a building where a fire broke out — cannot happen again

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In Telangana's Adilabad, Jada Koppu Kolatam Takes Centre Stage As Festivities Begin

In this art form, each artist holds a percussion instrument made of wood in one hand and a saree in the other that is tied to a pole on the ceiling.

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If Nitish Was Wrong, Get NCERT Books Changed Too: JD(U) Ministers

Ashok Choudhary waved Class 12 text books, in English as well as Hindi, pointing to specific pages which "say the same thing that our leader had spoken of"

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ED Raid on Kandala Cooperative Bank in Kerala Continues; CPI Expels Its Local Leader

Bhasurangan was also removed from the position of Convenor of the Administrative Committee of the Kerala Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (KCMMF), which sells products under the trade name of Milma

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Two Killed as Truck Hits Bus on Samruddhi Expressway in Maharashtra

The Samruddhi Mahamarg, named Hindu Hrudaysamrat Balasaheb Thackeray Maharashtra Samruddhi Mahamarg, is a 701-km-long expressway connecting Mumbai and Nagpur.

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Apple Co-founder Wozniak Hospitalised After Suffering From Stroke: Report

Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak was hospitalized in Mexico City on Wednesday due to a possible stroke, Mexican media outlets reported, but a TMZ report citing sources suggested the illness was potentially a less serious bout of vertigo.

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Three Teachers on Polling Duty Killed as SUV Collides with Truck in Chhattisgarh

The school teachers were identified as Shiv Netam, Santram Netam and Harendra Uikey

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Manipur HC Asks State to Lift Mobile Internet Ban in Peaceful Areas

Barring a few days in September, mobile internet has remained banned in Manipur since May 3 when ethnic clashes broke out

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On A Green Mission, This Telangana Mechanic Has Planted More Than 90,000 Saplings

In the evening, he puts a microphone on his scooter and educates the people about the plants.

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Villagers Attack Police Team in Assam's Kamrup District

A police vehicle was also damaged when the villagers of Baruajani attacked it on Saturday night to prevent the personnel from arresting a local youth on theft charges

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Rajnath Approves Maternity, Childcare Leave for Women Soldiers, Sailors, Air Warriors on Par with Officer Counterparts

At present, the women officers get maternity leave of 180 days with full pay for each child, subject to a maximum of two children

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Act Strictly Against Land Grabbers: UP CM Directs Officials During Janata Darshan

The woman told Adityanath that she did not have a permanent house due to poor financial condition and that her land was forcibly occupied by a person

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HPCL Employee Attacked at Office in Navi Mumbai; Four Booked for Attempt to Murder

Rohit Yadav was arrested late on Thursday, he said, adding that the injured employee has been hospitalised

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IIT-BHU Student 'Forcibly Kissed', 'Stripped Naked' as Accused Record Video; Massive Protest on Campus

IIT-BHU Molestation Case: When I shouted for help, they threatened to kill me. They let me go after 10-15 minutes, the complainant said.

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First-Ever Diwali Celebrations Hosted at Walt Disney World Resort in US

The Dance Fest led is was a three-day event comprising vibrant colours, costumes and performances by dancers from around North America

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