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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a farmers rally on Monday at Midnapore town in West Bengal focusing on the Centre's recent decision to increase the minimum support price (MSP) of Kharif crops. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2uBBZVh Press Trust of India

Sonal Mansingh is as modest about her recent Rajya Sabha nomination as she is about the numerous other honours she's received through a nearly six-decade career. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2unnkO7 Vandana Shukla

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a two-day tour of Uttar Pradesh, will launch several projects on the second day of his visit. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2uDjiki FP Staff

A group of Naxalites opened fire on a BSF patrol team as they were passing through Chhattisgarh's Barkot village, leading to the encounter. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2ulFO1K Press Trust of India

Indian family in Kerala received the wrong body on Saturday after a mix-up in Abu Dhabi, measures to return the right body are being undertaken from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2zMyssW Indo-Asian News Service

Six members of a Marwari family allegedly committed suicide in Jharkhand's Hazaribagh district. A note recovered from the scene mentions that the family was under a lot of pressure due to debts and losses in business. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2uoYoG3 FP Staff

Lakhs of people lined the streets of Ahmedabad to witness the 141st Jagannath Rath Yatra which passed through sensitive areas along the 18 kilometre route and ended peacefully. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2zBIOfn Press Trust of India

Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami has expressed 'strong' opposition to the Centre's draft Bill on HECI, which would replace the existing UGC from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2upRccF FP Staff

The first batch of Haj pilgrims on Saturday was flagged off by Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, who said the preparations for ensuring a smooth pilgrimage had been completed. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2zBIKw9 Press Trust of India

Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday congratulated sculptor Raghunath Mohapatra and Odissi danseuse Sonal Mansingh on being nominated to the Rajya Sabha. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2unf4xI Indo-Asian News Service

One of the two priests of the Malankara Orthodox Church in Kerala, who are accused of sexual abuse, appealed to the Supreme Court for a relief from arrest on Saturday from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2uAxIkP Indo-Asian News Service

NEET UG 2018- 2019 exams will be conducted twice a year from now. The tentative schedule for online registration and exam dates is out from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2ulCJ1k FP Staff

National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah said on Saturday that the Congress's tweet about Prime Minister Narendra Modi and incarcerated former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif was disappointing from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2zBIFIR Press Trust of India

Congress workers on Saturday counted and filled potholes in suburban Bandra as part of its campaign, titled "Aao Potholes Giney" from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2uneSP0 Press Trust of India

Digital Bharat has become a black mirror reflecting a distorted cast of characters with no role to play in the country's economy. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2zBIBZD Khabar Lahariya

After Railway Minister Piyush Goyal cracked the whip, the Western Railway (WR) launched a safety audit of all 445 bridges on the Mumbai suburban section, deploying modern techniques to scan some of the oldest structures, an official said here on Saturday. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2uoMiwB Indo-Asian News Service

Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday held an 'extremely fruitful' meeting with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2zGynar Press Trust of India

Two people died after a boat carrying more than 40 people capsised in east Godavari river after ramming into a bridge's pillar, in Andhra Pradesh's Mondirevu area of Pasuvula Lanka village from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2uneK1Y FP Staff

On 16 July, the Supreme Court will begin hearings on whether the practice of female genital cutting, is constitutional or not. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2zBIv4d The Ladies Finger

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) announced the civil services prelims results 2018 on Saturday. Candidates who appeared for the exam can check their results on upsc.gov.in and upsconline.nic.in. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2uneGiK FP Staff

Delhi University has uploaded the revised schedule for post-graduate (PG) admissions (2018-19) on its official website. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2uAxFFF FP Staff

Chidambaram said defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman "has all the time in the world to inquire into the religious affiliations of parties and persons". from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2uk7t31 Press Trust of India

Raghunath Mohapatra hails from a long line of sculptors, and won his first national award at the age of 22 from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2zFvS83 Neha Kirpal

The reasons for this vigilante justice were varied but the root cause was often the same - suspicion based on rumours fanned by messages on social media platforms like WhatsApp. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2mfUNpe Press Trust of India

In a bold, blunt and brave speech on Thursday, Justice Ranjan P Gogoi said that the Indian judiciary was in need of a revolution. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2zGDnvK Sumathi Chandrashekaran

Opposition sought to know the number of farmers that committed suicide in the last three months and details of the compensation provided to their family. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2meWtiK Press Trust of India

A man was lynched to death, while three others were badly hurt, by an angry mob of villagers in Murki village in Aurad taluk of Bidar, Karnataka, media reports said. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2zKFX3Y FP Staff

The farmers of Sri Muktsar district chose to play it safe; elsewhere farmers might choose to deal with climate change differently. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2uwFXOT IndiaSpend

At least 23 drug-related deaths were reported in Punjab in June. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2mitFGl Arjun Sharma

The Maharashtra government has prepared a plan to repair the electricity poles, wires, and other systems at a cost of Rs 7,300 crore, Energy Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule said. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2zFXc6q Press Trust of India

Hapur is notorious for cases of mob violence. Several videos have appeared showing Dalits being thrashed and local goons being left at the mercy of the people. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2zDSWUH Manish Kumar

Questions are now being raised in Sri Lanka over the seriousness of India's intent to set up a joint venture for Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport in Hambantota. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2unlJYN Chathuri Dissanayake

Goa Police took Goa Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee chief Pratima Coutinho for questioning over allegations that she revealed the identity of a molestation victim on social media from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2zAp0ZC Press Trust of India

Justice Ranjan Gogoi's recently reiterated his concerns about democracy and the freedom of judiciary saying that 'independent journalists and noisy judges are needed to defend democracy' from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2uiDTuL Kiruba Munusamy

An advisory committee of the Nashik Municipal Corporation has found Bhide guilty of violating the Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques Act. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2KWh3n6 Press Trust of India

Nirana village in Muzaffarnagar is barely 7 km from the scene of the deadly riots in Uttar Pradesh in 2013. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2uvcPrx Sachin Johri

Senior Congress leader Shahi Tharoor was summoned by a Kolkata court on Saturday, regarding his 'Hindu Pakistan' remark. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2uABUkC FP Staff

The husband who runs a slipper factory was arrested in Uttar Pradesh on Friday and sent to jail said police. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2unt6PR Press Trust of India

Pakistan rejected purported video clips circulated in the Indian media about the Indian Army's 2016 surgical strikes on terror launch pads across the border, calling India's claim as "farcical". from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2ySvClN Press Trust of India

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday visited his ailing predecessor Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who is undergoing treatment at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2Nbh0kv Press Trust of India

Police negotiators used a hydraulic ladder to talk through a window to Rohit Singh, who held the woman hostage in her fifth-floor apartment in the building from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2NMDEQy Press Trust of India

The Navy was deployed to evacuate train commuters stranded at the Nallasopara station in the city due to flooding of railway tracks between Nallasopara and Vasai Road stations, officials said on Wednesday. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2L6aD0E Press Trust of India

Adding a new twist to the ongoing controversy over minority status of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), the National Commission for Scheduled Castes is planning to order the university to implement the reservation policy from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2NPNAJ3 Saurabh Sharma

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday filed a charge sheet in the Vyapam scam case of Madhya Pradesh against alleged mastermind Dr Jagdish Sagar, two officials of the exam board, and others under the anti-money laundering law, officials said. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2LfMrsy Press Trust of India

The Karnataka Assembly on Friday passed a bill amending an Act, disallowing a private university from conducting courses pertaining to agriculture science. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2NOOupe Press Trust of India

The ministry wants the programme to become a mass movement which sees participation from all stakeholders, a WCD ministry official said from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2JlKg5f Press Trust of India

Dibrugarh University released the results for BA, BSc and BCom even semester exams on Saturday. Check results on dibru.net. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2NTHLKW FP Staff

Despite an abundance of rivers and lakes, India's poor water management has not allowed it to harness their potential and maintain them to meet our needs. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2ucjvuc Vidya Venkat

Rumour has it that from this month onwards, the print version of the Indian edition of Rolling Stone will either be stopped completely or decrease in frequency from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2NO9CvX Amit Gurbaxani

The nine-day festival of Lord Jagannath rath yatra started on Saturday. BJP president Amit Shah flagged off the yatra by offering prayers in a Jagannath Temple in Ahmedabad from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2mfvnbt FP Staff

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said the S-400 Triumf air defence missile deal with Russia will go ahead notwithstanding the US sanctions on military transactions with Moscow. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2mibhNW FP Staff

The Parel flyover on Babasaheb Ambedkar road in Mumbai, which was closed on Thursday following a water pipeline burst, is open to commuters. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2NTHyr8 FP Staff

It is unlikely that the invitation to Donald Trump to be the chief guest at the Republic Day parade would be be made public had the White House rejected it. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2ujMtcM Bikram Vohra

A section of activists feels that the growing sexual misdemeanours by the clergy could also be due to the entry of a new generation of youths into the vocation in Kerala from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2zFDJCK TK Devasia

Women activists from across the country on Friday launched a charter in Delhi demanding that the Centre ensure that 50 percent seats in Parliament and legislative assemblies are reserved for women. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2ulu7rx Press Trust of India

The visit of South Korean president Moon Jae-in to India was "remarkable" and "very successful" and lend momentum to upgrade the overall relationship between the two countries, the country's envoy in New Delhi said on Friday. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2zFDmIm Press Trust of India

Supreme Court dismissed the government's plan to monitor and track social media in India will make the country a "surveillance state" from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2umCNhE Press Trust of India

Narendra Modi will begin a two-day tour of eastern Uttar Pradesh today, visiting his parliamentary constituency Varanasi. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2zFDCqO Press Trust of India

Chief Legal Officer and President of Microsoft Brad Smith has warned in an interview with <em>CNBC</em> that the company may be forced to move jobs out of the US if decisions on worker visas by the Donald Trump administration push business in that direction. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2ulCLq3 Nikhila Natarajan

The Trump government's Department of Homeland Security has 'missed' its self imposed deadline of end June 2018 to make its position known on whether spouses of H1B workers in the US will be allowed to continue working for pay or not but this does not mean the worries of the H4 community disappear. That's not going away. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2uhIbCs Nikhila Natarajan

The NIA has summoned Auqib Javeed, a Srinagar-based reporter, to Delhi for questioning in a sedition case filed against Asiya Andrabi and two others. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2ujMsFK FP Staff

Twitter earlier this week announced it will remove locked accounts - which are disabled owing to suspicious activity - from follower counts across profiles globally. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2zEME7p Indo-Asian News Service

The college was led to believe that NDMA was conducting the fire drill. Which is why on 11 July, it sent out a letter to both Tamil and English newspapers to publish news about the drill by the NDMA training officer, Arumugam from 9:30 am. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2unVOA1 TS Sudhir

Johnson P Mathew, a counsellor, was arrested from Kozhencherry in the district in Kerala and is being questioned by crime branch sleuths, police sources said. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2zDa0u9 Press Trust of India

The CBI recently named him in a charge sheet for allegedly raping the minor girl at his residence on 4 June 2017 night but the local police had not registered the FIR after the crime. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2umDPdx Press Trust of India

India and China held their second maritime security dialogue in Beijing during which the Indian side elaborated on its vision for the Indo-Pacific region as articulated in prime minister Modi's keynote address at this year's Shangri-La Dialogue from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2zFKDrG Press Trust of India

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General Bipin Rawat's order gives the impression of callous, uncaring, thoughtless officers messing about with woods and putters while their men are dying. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2NMpG12 Bikram Vohra

Earlier, on 18 June, the apex court had refused to accord urgent hearing on the plea. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2Jkbadq Press Trust of India

The man has threatened to kill the girl and himself if the police try to barge into the house in Bhopal. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2NKBCjU FP Staff

NITI Aayog is yet to reckon with the question of whether simultaneous elections can damage India's federal structure or any other tenet of the Constitution. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2JjZhEz Malavika Prasad

Rajnath Singh on Friday left for Bangladesh for a three-day visit during which he will hold discussions on various issues. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2NKBqBc Press Trust of India

The church authorities were requested to "advise" Pope Francis to "relieve" Jalandhar bishop Franco Mulakkal "of his pastoral responsibilities so that the church is seen to actually practice the zero tolerance it professes to observe in abuse cases from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2JpC8kg Press Trust of India

The clashes broke out when the CPRF and police tried to stop groups of youth from marching towards the graveyard to offer Fatiha at the grave of Khalid Gafar Malik. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2NKBe4W FP Staff

A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice Ashok Bhushan and Justice S Abdul Nazeer is hearing arguments on whether the Ayodhya matter should be heard by a constitution bench or not. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2LbwsMe FP Staff

There are scenes you see on a regular midsummer day in Bundelkhand that turn the most common business ideas into those tinged with pathos and absurdity. Like the picture of a market square where a weighing scale balances a fluffy head of hair against a half kg. weight. Hair that has been painstakingly collected by women as they comb their tresses each day, and then handed over to Sunil of Supa village, who comes a-calling to their village on his cycle. He barters the hair for small necessary goods - utensils, stationary and snacks for the kids. He's been doing this for six years now, and it's as comfortable a livelihood as any in factory-less, drought-prone Mahoba. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2KdmxW9 Khabar Lahariya

Alka Patade, working with Bank of India, was on her way to office in Mumbai's BKC, when she slipped into the gap while trying to board a moving train. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2uhxi3G Press Trust of India

Kashmir's public health engineering dept, which supplies water to households, said that the state faces problems of both water quality and availability. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2uvy3oT Firdous Hassan

The situation arose due to dense fog in Chiyalekh valley on way to Gunji. The pilgrims were supposed to cross over to Tibet through the Lipulekh Pass on Saturday but are still waiting to be airlifted to Gunji from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2uixWxX Press Trust of India

The online registration for Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) has begun. Candidates can register at kvpy.iisc.ernet.in from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2zzA1ue FP Staff

The reports are likely to revive criticism of Japan's foreign trainee programme, which has been accused of placing workers in substandard conditions and jobs that provide few opportunities for learning. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2ujLzNd Agence France-Presse

The fire department of the civic body in Surat said that three cases of short-circuit were reported, while fifteen trees were uprooted on Thursday. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2zAFh0M FP Staff

Sunanda Pushkar, who married Shashi Tharoor in 2010, was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a room at the Leela Palace Hotel in Delhi in 2014. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2ukxf73 Indo-Asian News Service

The young collector's optimism is infectious, and grounded in the new reality that is sprouting in select villages of the badly affected district. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2NcnBL3 Debobrat Ghose

A student of the Assam Agricultural University in Jorhat was found dead in a toilet of the Kamakhya Express on 10 July while the body of an elderly woman was found in a toilet of the Avadh Assam Express on 11 July and both of them were found to have been killed in a similar manner. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2KS6xgu Press Trust of India

Jagannathpur Mela, or the Rath Mela, is among the biggest fairs organised in the city, and lakhs of devotees from all parts of the state, visit the fair, making it a hotbed for traffickers as well from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2Na115E Kelly Kislaya

Six public health department engineers are held in Ghaziabad after three sanitation workers died of suffocation and lack of safety apparatus while working from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2KXgCsM Press Trust of India

Congress' communications in-charge Randeep Surjewala announced N Kiran Kumar Reddy's return to the party after the former chief minister met party president Rahul Gandhi at his residence on Friday. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2NaDf9y FP Staff

Two coordinated raids rescued 108 children from railway stations in Jharkhand, the adults accompanying them claimed to be taking the children to madrassa in Telangana from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2KXgx8s Press Trust of India

Hindupur is one of the taluks in four districts of Andhra Pradesh's Rayalaseema region that is facing acute shortage of drinking water. The scarcity is such in this taluk town of Anantapur district, which is known for its tamarind and silk business, that drinking water is reportedly supplied once in 10-15 days. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2Je3h9L Y Maheswara Reddy

Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board (KSEEB) will release the result of Secondary Level School Certificate (SSLC) supplementary examination this week. Students can check their results on karresults.nic.in. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2KSqJPm FP Staff

Zlatko Dalic is a pragmatic liberal, having cherry-picked ingredients from Blazevic and other coaches, but allowing his players the freedom to roam around on the field to express their game. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2uj2vDI Samindra Kunti

A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawan was killed while two others sustained injuries in a militant attack in Sheer Pora area of Anantnag district in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday. Reports also said that one civilian was injured in cross-firing. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2Nei4DN FP Staff

The decision was taken following a Madras High Court order that directed Central Board of Secondary Education to grant 196 grace marks - four marks each for 49 questions - to all students who appeared for the NEET in Tamil Nadu this year from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2Ndpebi FP Staff

The 60-day yatra to the 3,880-metre high holy cave in south Kashmir Himalayas commenced on 28 June and so far over 1.51 lakh pilgrims have paid obeisance at the shrine. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2KXgiKA Press Trust of India

Adding a new twist to the ongoing controversy over minority status of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), the National Commission for Scheduled Castes is planning to order the university to implement the reservation policy or submit documents supporting its claim to prove the university's minority status. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2zwisv8 FP Staff

In India, the army enjoys the highest level of "effective trust", followed by the Supreme Court (SC) and the high courts, according to a 2018 study. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2NbWU9a IndiaSpend

Referring to a series of recent topics, including the Iranian sanctions under which India is required to stop its import of oil from Iran by 4 November, Navtej Singh Sarna said none of these were issues over which one can lose sleep. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2KXg2LC Press Trust of India

A 19-year-old student died during a disaster preparedness drill in her college in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu on Thursday. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2KQRGTA FP Staff

As the Supreme Court's hearing on Section 377 entered its third day, Devdutt Pattanaik's book on how Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and Hinduism affirm the dignity of queer individuals makes for a timely read from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2Ne2dVN Devdutt Pattanaik

Senior Supreme Court judge Ranjan Gogoi said that the judicial system needs revolution, not reform if it is to be serviceable for the common man while delivering the third Ramnath Goenka Memorial Lecture in Delhi from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2KTVjbl Press Trust of India

The Narendra Modi government hosted Trump's predecessor Barack Obama at the Republic Day celebrations in 2015. If Trump agrees to accept the invite, his visit will likely be more dramatic and closely-watched than Obama's was. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2Ne26JR FP Staff

Indian Railways is planning to launch a special tourist train covering significant locations from Ayodhya to Colombo via Rameshwaram on the Ramayana circuit, media reports said. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2KVcwkM FP Staff

The CBI had registered the urea scam case in May 1996 upon allegations that the accused persons entered into criminal conspiracy and cheated National Fertilizer Limited to the tune of Rs 133 crore, officials said from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2Ne1ZOr FP Staff

UN Secretary General hinted at supporting a human rights probe into Kashmir and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and seeks to address "political problems" with "political solutions" from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2KQRsfc Press Trust of India

Two coordinated raids rescued 108 children from railway stations in Jharkhand, the adults accompanying them claimed to be taking the children to madrassa in Telangana from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2Nc65Xj Press Trust of India

The Assam government on 10 July banned the import and sale of fish from other states to prevent use of formalin for a period of ten days following tests samples that showed the presence of the cancer-causing chemical. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2KTqFPv FP Staff

All 11 members of the Chundawat family, whose bodies were recently recovered from their residence in north Delhi's Burari, died due to hanging, a senior police officer said today after the force received the last post-mortem report of 77-year-old Narayan Devi from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2N9raSc Press Trust of India

India on Thursday hit back at Pakistan over its comments on the alleged human rights abuse in Kashmir, saying Islamabad must first stop terrorism emanating from its soil. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2KQRmUS Press Trust of India

The 'Windrush scandal' emerged as UK-based Jamaicans faced forced deportations due to lack of documentary evidence that they had the legal right to be in Britain. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2NbsbZL Press Trust of India

Formalin is a form of formaldehyde, which is classified as a carcinogenic to humans. It contains 37-40% formaldehyde, and is used in mortuaries and labs. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2Mu3Gqf FP Staff

Shridhar Chillal, an octogenarian from India, finally cut his nails after 66 years but his record of having the world's longest fingernails measuring over 31 feet has left his hand permanently disabled. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2NdiPNk Press Trust of India

The Jammu and Kashmir government has terminated the services of four police officials who are accused in the Kathua rape and murder case. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2KQRfZs Gursimran Singh

Chief Justice Dipak Misra also rejected a proposal of lawyers, seeking retention of section 377, that public opinion should be elicited on the matter. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2NdiOJg Press Trust of India

The curriculum, with a focus on meditation and mental exercise, is designed with the aim to make students not only good humans who will spread happiness but also relaxed professionals from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2KSqrIm FP Staff

A transgender, wanted in four cases, including one in which he and his associates allegedly kidnapped and castrated the victim, was arrested Thursday from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2Nbz90Y Press Trust of India

Maharashtra education minister Vinod Tawde made it clear that the government has not ordered purchase of any copies of the Bhagavad Gita, nor was involved in the distribution of the holy book by the AC Bhaktivedanta group. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2KRHqKK Indo-Asian News Service