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Lucknow: Active campaigns by senior BJP and Congress leaders, present and former Union ministers, have set the poll pot boiling in the otherwise staid local body elections in Uttar Pradesh. For the first time, all the major political parties are contesting on their respective election symbol. With political circles viewing …

Hyderabad: A Class 5 boy allegedly committed suicide after being scolded by his mother for missing school on Saturday. The boy was reprimanded by his mother for not going to school. He allegedly committed suicide yesterday by hanging himself to a window when family members had gone to a hospital, …

Hyderabad: A 17-year-old boy died after a cooking gas cylinder at his house blasted in Tukaram Gate in the city on Sunday morning. Deceased Naresh, an intermediate student, was home as his parents and sister went out for shopping as it was his sister’s birthday today. Else, the blast would …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reaffirmed the government’s commitment towards improving sanitation in the country. In a video posted on Twitter on the occasion of World Toilet Day today, Mr Modi stressed the need to end the concept of open defecation saying that this is the best gift that can …

‘Is this Gujarat or Uttar Pradesh?’ asks Saleem bhai Patel, a senior Congress leader from constituency No. 159 in East Surat. He is talking about a bifurcation of the Gujarati voter into communities by the Congress. On one side, there is Hardik Patel who is bringing the Patidars into the Congress fold, …

A 24-year-old woman was taken into custody on charges of illegally confining a 17-year-old minor youth and raping him. The woman, whose name has been withheld, kidnapped the minor youth from Bengaluru and raped him. Both the woman and the youth are from Kolar Gold Fields in Bengaluru. The police …

Hyderabad: Rash driving left commuters gasping when a woman drove her car at high speed on the busy Banjara Hills Road no. 12 on Saturday. The woman, who was driving the Mercedes Benz, ploughed into the divider. She became so panicky that she refused to come out of the car. …

Hyderabad: In times of unending paradoxes, technology and superstition are two contradictory forces people live with. In a heart-rending incident, people in a village in Telangana refused to allow the funeral of a woman to be performed only because she died on Amavasya (moonless night) on Saturday. Stretching their rigidity …

Kakinada: A biker had a miraculous escape after an iron rod pierced through his neck and mouth in an accident, at Yanam on Saturday. The biker, Suresh, was travelling on his two-wheeler on National Highway 216 near Yanam. He lost balance when he swerved to avoid collision with an oncoming …

ESKirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Fourteen Islamic State militants and security personnel were killed as confrontations broke out in south of Kirkuk, a security source said on Tuesday. “Al-Hashd al-Shaabi [Popular Mobilization Forces] invaded Kadamat village, south of Kirkuk, where confrontations occurred against IS militants,” the source told Baghdad Today. “Troops managed to …