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Body of newborn boy found in dustbin in Dombivli

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News / Times Of India/ Thane

The body of a newborn boy, wrapped with clothes, was found in a dustbin in Dombivli on Thursday evening.It was found by Praveen Betkar, a KDMC staffer...

Hawkers on skywalks: Three suspended

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News / Times Of India/ Thane

Days after taking over as municipal commisisoner of Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation, Dr Vijay Suryawanshi on Thursday suspended three senior civic officials for not taking action against hawkers selling their wares on the skywalks at Kalyan and Dombivli railway stations...

Thane bureaucrat draws ire of netas over WhatsApp remarks

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News / Times Of India/ Thane

The bureaucrat said that the message was not in a public domain or on social media,, and it was part of an internal communication...

Maharashtra: Orange river probe report likely in two days, says MPCB

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News / Times Of India/ Thane

The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), probing how Waldhuni river turned orange, has sent samples for a laboratory test to find out the chemicals released into it...

First national waterway floating jetty ready for launch today

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News / Times Of India/ Goa

The first of the four floating jetties planned in the state under the national waterways (NW) project is ready. Union minister of state for shipping Mansukh Mandaviya and chief minister Pramod Sawant will commission it on Friday...

Panaji: Congress may not contest Zilla Panchayat elections on party lines

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News / Times Of India/ Goa

Peeved over the delay in announcing the reservation of seats for the Zilla Panchayat elections, Congress MLAs met on Thursday and unanimously decided that it was in the party’s interests not to fight the elections on party lines...

Maha: Power consumption hits record high

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News / Times Of India/ Pune

The Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited met the record power demand of 21,570 MW on Wednesday, with rising temperature and increased consumption in the agriculture sector being the primary triggers...

Fake I-T officer dupes Pune trader of Rs 24K

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News / Times Of India/ Pune

The Chandannagar police have booked a man for masquerading as an income tax officer and stealing Rs24,000 from a shopowner on the pretext of counting cash...

Bangladeshi escapes Karimganj jail with another prisoner

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News / Times Of India/ Guwahati

Two undertrial prisoners, including a Bangladeshi national, fled the Karimganj district jail on Thursday morning.The matter came to light around 8 am on Thursday, at the time of morning counting. Karimganj SP Kumar Sanjit Krishna said..

Pollution Trumps Motera's air quality

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News / Times Of India/ Ahemdabad

(This story originally appeared in AhmedabadMirror on February 21, 2020)..

Gold price breaches Rs 43,000-mark in Ahd

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News / Times Of India/ Ahemdabad

Continuing its upward rally, gold prices breached the Rs 43,000-mark to touch a new record high and settle at Rs 43,205 per 10 gram in the Ahmedabad market on Thursday...

BJP blames AP govt for attack on temples

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News / Times Of India/ Hyderabad

BJP’s state unit president Kanna Lakshminarayana on Thursday alleged that temples are being attacked across AP with the support of the state government. Speaking at the party’s state committee meeting, the former minister condemned the attacks on temples and sought severe action against those responsible. He also criticised the police for booking false cases against BJP activists and harassing them...

AP: Naidu's assets grew by Rs 87L in a year

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News / Times Of India/ Hyderabad

TDP national general secretary Nara Lokesh dared his political opponents to prove the charges of illegal assets owned by his family, adding that if the charges are proved his family would return all such assets to them as gift. Lokesh, who declared his family's assets on Thursday, said they have been following this practice for the past nine years. "Instead of depending on ED, CBI and I-T to declare his assets, Jagan should himself reveal his assets," Lokesh said...

Register or face action, NDMC tells schools

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News / Times Of India/ Delhi

In a strict action against unrecognised schools in north Delhi, the civic agency has given a deadline of one month for registration...

Ggn, Fbd liquor shops can stay open till 3am

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News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Facing stiff competition from Delhi and UP, Haryana government has changed its excise policy for 2020-21 to allow bars and other drinking places as well as liquor shops in its two big revenuegenerating NCR districts, Gurugram and Faridabad, to remain open till 3am. The new rule will also be applicable to Panchkula...

Mum woman trekker dies after falling off fort

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News / Times Of India/ Mumbai

Siddhi Kamte, a 20-year-old trekker from Saat Rasta, died after falling off a cliff during a trekking expedition at Hadsar Fort in Pune district on Wednesday...

Vadodara: Two aides of a temple priest held for threatening woman

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News / Times Of India/ Vadodara

Warasia police arrested two aides of temple priest of Shri Baglamukhi Brahmastra Vidya Mandir in connection with a threat complaint filed against him. Police arrested Kiran Chandani and her daughter Pinky Chandani after they got a tip-off about their whereabouts on Thursday...

BBA writes to PM over Nyay Mandir cleanliness

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News / Times Of India/ Vadodara

After two lawyers and some members of Hindu Jagran Manch entered the heritage Nyay Mandir building to clean it, the Baroda Bar Association (BBA) has now shown its concern for the maintenance of the building...

Changing client tastes reflect in traditional Pithora paintings

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No good news: Noida-Kalindi Kunj route opened just for few minutes

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News / Times Of India/ Noida

The Uttar Pradesh Police on Friday opened the Noida-Kalindi Kunj route for traffic due to a road accident for few minutes on Friday. According to the traffic police, it was a temporary arrangement and the road is still closed for regular commuters...

Friends warned Amulya to be careful in speeches

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News / Times Of India/ Bangalore

Amulya Leona Noronha, who was detained on Thursday for allegedly saying ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ at an event in Bengaluru, has been a familiar face at CAA protests over the past couple of months...

Trichy: Man on all-India bicycle tour to raise awareness on hygiene

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News / Times Of India/ Guwahati

A 29-year-old cyclist from Assam on a pan-India mission to spread awareness on public hygiene reached Trichy on Thursday. Sensitising people to dump their waste only in dustbins, the man has so far covered 18 states and Union territories on his bicycle with the support of people he never knew...

Bye, bye broom; hello 'vaccuum'

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News / Times Of India/ Bangalore

(This story originally appeared in BangaloreMirror on February 21, 2020)..

Cabby threatens to throw acid on woman passenger

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News / Times Of India/ Bangalore

A 25-year-old software engineer has alleged that a Uber cab driver touched her inappropriately and threatened to throw acid on her face if she resisted...

Mohali: Drive begins, 12 structures torn down in airport vicinity

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News / Times Of India/ Gurgaon

The district administration, on Thursday, started demolition of illegal structures falling within 100-metre radius of the Air Force Station boundary wall...

Surat civic body strips its female clerks for medical test

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News / Times Of India/ Surat

Barely a week after 68 students of a Bhuj girls' college were lined up and forced to strip to prove they weren't menstruating, female trainee clerks of the Surat Municipal Corporation were on Thursday..

SGST unearths Rs22 crore of unaccounted transactions by service providers

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Marine freighter service to connect Surat with Chennai & Kolkata from Feb 26

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In Gujarat, people with irreversible organ ailments get hope

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Surat airport to host AAI kho-kho tournament

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Letter campaign starts for toll tax relief

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Surat firefighters kept on alert during Trump visit

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Colva: Man accused of killing wife acquitted

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News / Times Of India/ Goa

Bihar native Shyamsunder Pandey, 36, accused of murdering his wife in 2018, was acquitted by South Goa principal district and sessions judge B P Deshpande...

‘Assault on docs as infectious as coronavirus’

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News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The reverberations of the slap that landed on a doctor’s face reached far beyond CMRI hospital where the incident occurred on Thursday morning with senior doctors practising in government and private hospitals expressing fears that the consequence of the brazen attack shown on television could trigger more such attacks in future...

Muslim students in UP’s RSS schools rise 30% in 3 years

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News / Times Of India/ Allahabad

The number of Muslim students in the schools run by Vidya Bharati, the educational wing of RSS, has witnessed an increase of approximately 30% in the past three years. About 12,000 Muslim and Christian students are studying in these schools in Uttar Pradesh. Moreover, Vidya Bharati has recruited Muslims as teachers also...

Ashok Gehlot takes health to heart, gives booster dose to education, farm sectors

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News / Times Of India/ Jaipur

Weighed down by the double whammy of reduced share of central taxes and farm loan waivers, chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday presented the state Budget for 2020-21, shrinking the size of expenditure by over Rs 6,500 crore, compared to last year...

HC nixes panel’s decision, allows liver transplant

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News / Times Of India/ Lucknow

Considering a patient’s request in a transplant case, the high court on Wednesday allowed a man to donate his liver to a woman suffering from liver cirrhosis..

IIMCAA scholarships and IFFCO IIMCAA awards given at Odisha Connections of IIMC Alumni Association

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Luxe tower for mantris to replace old bungalow

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News / Times Of India/ Mumbai

The 105-year-old Puratan bungalow at Malabar Hill will be pulled down to make way for a swanky 18-storey building that will house state ministers. Each floor will have an approximately 5,000 sqft space for a minister to live and work in too, said a state government official...

NZ family performs ‘pind daan’ for pet in Gaya

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News / Times Of India/ Patna

We’ve all heard the old saying that a dog is a man’s best friend. It may be a cliché for some, but for dog lovers their furry friends are a part of the family and their loss is as painful as that of a family member...

Expect light rain today in Chandigarh, says Met

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News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

As stated by Chandigarh met department, the weather conditions took a U-turn on Thursday afternoon and recorded drizzles and light rain in different parts of the Tricity...

Woman loses purse to snatcher in Chandigarh

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News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

A man on a motorcycle snatched a purse containing cash and gold jewellery from a woman in Sector 46 here on Wednesday night...

Pune: Cops form WhatsApp group to trace flasher

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News / Times Of India/ Pune

The Vishrambaug police have formed a WhatsApp group of women students in Sadashiv, Narayan and Navi Peth areas to trace a man who travels on a scooter and flashes women in the three Peth areas...

Maha: BoM's ex-branch head gets 10-year jail term

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News / Times Of India/ Pune

A special CBI court has sentenced a 60-year-old former branch manager of the Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) to 10 years' rigorous jail and imposed Rs 24 lakh fine for misappropriating funds worth over Rs 2.56 crore between 2009 and 2017 while he was posted in different capacities at five branches of the bank in Pune city and district...

Sewing centre started in Nathowal for village girls

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Cong MLA seeks probe into land grab

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Crime Briefs

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Chandigarh highway project sees delays, but Ludhiana bucks the trend

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MC toilets pass the test, city gets ODF+ tag

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Board exams on, top cop bans use of loudspeakers

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WB: All 57 correctional homes to get radio stns

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News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

In an effort to provide quality lifestyle to jail inmates, the state correctional home department has decided to introduce in-house radio stations in all the 57 correctional homes in phases...

9km of roads closed for Donald Trump-Modi show

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News / Times Of India/ Ahemdabad

As US president Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be holding a road show and an event at the Sardar Patel stadium in Motera, seven stretches of road measuring about 9km, will be closed for the general public from 8am on February 24 till the event ends...

Ahmedabad: Cop kills self over financial troubles

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News / Times Of India/ Ahemdabad

A 53-year-old head constable posted in the security branch of the State Reserve Police Force (SRPF) in Gandhinagar, allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service revolver on Thursday afternoon at a vacant house in Sector-30 of the capital, ostensibly due to financial problems...

nCoV: Smart hygiene machines at Chennai airport

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News / Times Of India/ Chennai

The new machine will be used in addition to hand sanitizers which have already been provided at the aerobridge and at pre-immigration area...

'Investment done by India Cements is bribe'

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Telangana at bottom in child immunisation

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News / Times Of India/ Hyderabad

The full immunisation coverage for the state of Telangana during the year 2018-19 is barely 54%, the second lowest among all states, after Sikkim, in the country. Telangana ranked 35th among the 36 states and union territories of the country, in terms of full immunisation coverage...

Elevated corridor talks back on the table

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News / Times Of India/ Bangalore

(This story originally appeared in BangaloreMirror on February 20, 2020)..

Shaheen road closure: Cops have their reasons

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News / Times Of India/ Delhi

While the talk till now has been about the commuting woes due to the blockade of the Kalindi Kunj road by protesters at Shaheen Bagh, the new dispute is about the barricades placed on the stretch there to stop vehicles from using the roads in the area...

90-yr-old man falls into open manhole, dies

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News / Times Of India/ Mumbai

A 90-year-old man missing for the past five days was found dead inside an open manhole in Virar on Thursday. ..

SMIMMER strips a group of SMC women clerks naked for fitness tests

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Police crack down on traffic violators on Mysuru’s Outer Ring Road

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‘BJP must field a Kuruba candidate in council election’

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Dingaleshwar Swami denied meet with Moorusavirmath pontiff

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Jewellery park will revive ailing sector, say city goldsmiths

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Plan to revive panel on sexual harassment

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Oppn: Discard home secy’s clean chit

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It’s drama time, folks!

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Woman alleges rape, police detain carpet factory owner

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College manager arrested for giving copying tips in Mau

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Thread unit catches fire

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Four robbers arrested in Anjar

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18-year-old raped by threatening to make her pics viral

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NMC ignoring norms for cement roads: Holey

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Farmers, elected representatives protest power outage in Kadaba taluk

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Couple consumes poison on wedding eve after argument

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Homeguard run over by train, probe on

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Odia engineer on board Diamond Princess ‘desperate’ to return: Kin

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AU honours 9 students at special event

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‘Truck driver dozed off, lost control’

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UP: Agra man gets life term for murdering wife

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Thane: Body of newborn boy found in dustbin in Dombivli

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AMU panel to go on hunger strike from Friday

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Chinese firm to make new Namma Metro coaches

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News / Times Of India/ Bangalore

Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (BMRCL) has awarded a contract to China’s CRRC Corporation Ltd to provide 216 coaches...

Cop shoots himself due to financial pressure

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News / Times Of India/ Ahemdabad

A 53-year-old policemen, who worked as a head constable with security branch of State Reserve Police Force (SRPF) in Gandhinagar, on Thursday afternoon allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service revolver at a secluded house in Sector-30 of the capital town due to financial crisis...

B'luru airport rail route to be electrified soon

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Delhi: 2 assailants identified in Rohini murder

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Padil railway under bridge towards Mangaluru inches closer to commissioning

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Rape survivor, 13, seeks nod for abortion

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27-yr-old arrested for killing man in NW Delhi

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News / Times Of India/ Delhi

A 27-year-old man was arrested for allegedly killing a person over dispute about due payments in northwest Delhi's Madanpur Dabas, police said...

Mumbai: Man sentenced to 12 yrs for raping minor

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News / Times Of India/ Mumbai

A special court here on Thursday sentenced a man to 12 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a 12-year-old mentally-challenged girl...

UP: 20-year-old stabbed to death in Lucknow

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News / Times Of India/ Lucknow

A 20-year-old youth was stabbed to death by 12 unidentified miscreants in front of gate number 1 of Alaknanda Apartments in Gomti Nagar Vistar on Thursday evening. The deceased, identified as Prashant Singh, was a native of Varanasi district. He stayed at Vijay Khand with his three other friends...

TN: Man sexually assaults, marries minor; held

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News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Police on Thursday arrested a 23-year-old man for kidnapping, sexually assaulting and marrying a 12-year-old girl near Jambunathapuram near Trichy...