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Pak testing firewall to crush online dissent: digital rights experts

PAKISTAN's government is throttling the internet and social media while it tests new controls to crush dissent, activists and business leaders say, putting the country's economic recovery at risk.

Israel, Hamas accuse each other of blocking efforts to seal peace deal

Blinken rushes to Israel to meet PM; to leave for Egypt on Tuesday where talks continue

TMC's Ray, BJP's Locket & 2 docs face police grilling

SENIOR Trinamool Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Ray has been served notice by the Kolkata Police for tweeting \"wrong information\" about the probe into the RG Kar Medical College rape-murder of a postgraduate trainee on August 9.

Cops tried to hush up the case: Medico's mother

THE mother of the trainee woman doctor who was allegedly raped and murdered at government-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 8 while on duty Sunday expressed her dissatisfaction with the probe while raising serious allegations, claiming that the Kolkata Police \"only tried to hush up the case as soon as possible.

CBI sleuths raid premises of Northern Coalfields officials in MP's Singrauli

THE Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday raided the premises of at least two officials of the Northern Coalfields Limited (NCL) and a prominent contractor in Madhya Pradesh's Singrauli district.

Panic grips five hospitals in Jaipur after emails threaten blasts, cops call it hoax

PANIC grips several hospitals across the state, including five in Rajasthan's capital, Jaipur, after they received bomb threats via email, on Sunday.

Cong using appeasement politics on CAA: Shah

UNION Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday launched a tirade against Congress for engaging in \"appeasement politics\" over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

C'garh Cong MLA in 3-day judicial custody

CHHATTISGARH Congress MLA Devendra Yadav was arrested late Saturday evening at his residence in Bhilai in connection with the probe into arson and violence that occurred on June 10 in Baloda Bazar district.

'Privatisation of IAS' is Modi's guarantee to end reservation, says Rahul

HITTING out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi government for deciding to recruit private sector experts through lateral entry in the system, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said \"privatisation of IAS\" is \"Modi's guarantee\" to end reservation.

J&K politicians look for greener pastures

As assembly polls approach, many in Azad's party mulling a switch; similar moves afoot in other smaller parties

Delhi Metro ready to help projects in Saudi Arabia, Kenya and El Salvador

DELHI Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) may help more international projects as the authorities in Saudi Arabia, Kenya and El Salvador have approached the Indian company for partnership.

ICAR released two rice varieties sans GE panel approval, activist tells govt

ENVIRONMENT activist Aruna Rodrigues has written to Union Minister of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MOEFCC), Bhupendra Yadav, urging him to initiate criminal proceedings against the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).

CBSE issues guidelines on textbooks, schools can select additional materials

THE Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has tightened its regulations on the selection of textbooks in schools, focusing on ensuring quality and sensitivity in educational materials.

DEMOCRACY GETS A CHANCE IN THREE-PHASE J&K ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS

A gentle breeze of democracy has finally started wafting across J&K with the Election Commission of India announcing assembly polls in three phases, ending October 1.

RUPEE DEPRECIATION SHOWS CRACKS IN ECONOMY

THE fall of the rupee against the US dollar has been accentuated in the recent months with visible cracks in some key economic indicators.

THE PEACE WE FIND AMIDST FOOD WARS

OUR 78th Independence Day just went by.

ECONOMIC RISKS HINDERING GLOBAL GROWTH

Growth has been slowing for decades. Recent growth is also of poorer 'quality'. It is volatile, unevenly distributed and the drivers are unsustainable. But this has been ignored across the globe

Mom kills self, girl seeks alms for last rites

FOLLOWING the suicide of her mother, who lived in poor financial condition, an 11-year-old girl Meera Durga, the only daughter of the deceased sought alms from the public for performing last rites on the body of her mother in Bheltharoda village Thanoor mandal in Nirmal district on Sunday.

Banks ordered to refund EMIs of landslide victims

Kerala gives victims 10K aid, banks debit it for EMI; CM, collector intervene

Electric snare erected for hunting hares leaves 20-year-old tusker dead

A male elephant aged around 20 years was electrocuted after it came into contact with an illegal snare wire erected at a private patta land in Viriyankovil near Srivilliputhur on Sunday.

Sexual assault at 'NCC camp', 7 arrested

Main accused on run; correspondent, principal held for unauthorised camp; 12 more girls may have been harassed A day after an NTK member was booked for allegedly sexually assaulting a Class 8 girl during an unauthorised NCC camp at a private school near Bargur, seven persons, including the correspondent and principal, were arrested on Sunday for allegedly not reporting the crime and conducting the camp without permission.

Minorities will be hit by PM's 'secular civil code': MMK

MANITHANEYA Makkal Katchi (MMK) leader M H Jawahirullah said the 'secular civil code' put forward by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Independence Day speech would violate the rights guaranteed by the Constitution to minority communities.

Check on defunct EB line: Farmers seek protection

WELCOMING the initiative to identify defunct free electricity connections for agriculture, farmers have urged the government to ensure the process does not affect marginal farmers and their cultivation.

'Will BJP-ruled states appoint priests from any caste?"

ARE the states ruled by the BJP ready to make persons of any caste as temple priests, asked DMK MP Kanimozhi Karunanidhi.

Docs urge DGP to form dedicated protection force

MEMBERS of the Federation of Government Doctors Association, who met Director General of Police Shankar Jiwal on Sunday, urged the police chief to establish a dedicated hospital protection force at all medical colleges in the state as announced by former chief minister J Jayalalithaa under Rule 110 in the Tamil Nadu Assembly in 2013.

Woman held for beating 60-yr-old man to death

A 50-year-old woman was arrested by the Thiruvanmiyur Government Railway Police (GRP) on Sunday on charges of beating to death a 60-year-old man she was allegedly in a relationship with at the Perungudi MRTS railway station late on Friday night.

Youth collapses, dies at pub in Nungambakkam

A 22-year-old college student collapsed and died at a pub in Nungambakkam on Saturday night.

Corpn gets ready to work with volunteers to ring-fence city from monsoon mayhem

AFTER facing flak for failing to coordinate with volunteers during cyclone Michaung and the resultant floods last year, the city corporation has started working with the volunteer network in the city ahead of the monsoon.

Career guidance assessment for Classes 9 to 12 to begin today

THE school education department has decided to conduct a career guidance assessment test for students in Classes 9 to 12 from Monday.

UoM to offer defence studies in distant mode

UNIVERSITY of Madras's Institute of Distance Education (IDE) is likely to offer a master's programme in defence and strategic studies from this year.