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Brother, sister killed on way to school in Rohtas

A brother and his sister were killed in a road accident on NH 19 (GT Road) near Tekari village under Chenari police station of Rohtas district on Wednesday morning, police said.

TWO STABBED TO DEATH IN WEST CHAMPARAN DIST

Two people were stabbed to death in West Champaran district on Wednesday evening, police said.

Two persons arrested with smack in Patna

During a special vehicle checking drive, Gardanibagh Police on Wednesday seized 523 packets of smack after the arrest of two persons from Chitkohra roundabout.

Liquor, lies mar marriages in Bihar as brides reject grooms

PURNIA: Liquor and lies (boasting cunningly before marriage about brides or grooms), which were earlier not disliked and were in fact accepted as normal infliction of folks, are now hated so much that they are proving to be spoilers.

4 get lifer in 29-year-old bizman's kidnapping case

An Aurangabad sessions court on Wednesday sentenced four persons to life imprisonment for kidnapping a businessman 29 years ago.

BEST driver had no electric bus experience, finds probe

MUMBAI: Sanjay More, 54, the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) driver who was behind the wheel of the bus that rammed into 22 vehicles claiming seven lives and leaving 42 injured in Kurla West on Monday night, had received just three-day training before transitioning from driving a manual geared bus to a longer and automatic electric bus (e-bus), people familiar with the probe said on Tuesday.

More than 200 get PhD degrees in VKSU convocation from Bihar guv

The governor-cum-chancellor of Bihar Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar conferred gold medals to more than 100 students of different sessions during the sixth convocation of Veer Kunwar Singh University (VKSU) on Wednesday, a university official said.

Blood-stage Vaccine for malaria shows promise in trials

NEW DELHI: A novel malaria vaccine candidate that works at the blood stage appears safe and highly immunogenic in African children and shows promising efficacy against malaria when given in a delayed third dose regimen, according to the findings of a phase 2b clinical trial published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases on Tuesday.

Violence in Parbhani amid calls for bandh

Violent protests took place for the second day in Parbhani city of central Maharashtra on Wednesday over the vandalising of a replica of the Indian Constitution, police said.

PM releases complete works of Tamil poet

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday released the compendium of complete works of great Tamil poet and freedom fighter Subramania Bharati on his 14th birth anniversary and hailed his contributions, saying a personality like him comes once in centuries.

EU provides information on Indian entities breaching sanctions in dealing with Russia

THE INFORMATION WAS SHARED AS PART OF EFFORTS TO FINALISE EU'S 15TH PACKAGE OF SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA

Mere harassment allegations are not sufficient for abetment to suicide: SC

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has ruled that mere harassment or actions intended to provoke anger cannot by themselves constitute the crime of abetment to suicide, cautioning against conflating general allegations with the legal threshold for penal charges.

Woman 'throws' infant into river, held: Police

THE WOMAN'S HUSBAND LODGED AN FIR AND THE REASON BEHIND HER ACT WAS NOT IMMEDIATELY KNOWN

WE NEED TO GIVE RIGHTS TO ALL SECTIONS OF SOCIETY: SOREN

RANCHI: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Wednesday said there was a need to give rights to all sections of society, especially the deprived and the exploited.

Supplementary budget of ₹11k cr tabled in House

THIS IS THE SECOND SUPPLEMENTARY BUDGET IN THIS FISCAL YEAR, FOLLOWING THE ₹4,833 CRORE PASSED DURING MONSOON SESSION

Supplementary budget of ₹11k cr tabled in House

THIS IS THE SECOND SUPPLEMENTARY BUDGET IN THIS FISCAL YEAR, FOLLOWING THE ₹4,833 CRORE PASSED DURING MONSOON SESSION

COAL SCAM: DELHI COURT AWARDS JAIL TERMS TO FIRM OFFICIALS

A special CBI court on Wednesday awarded separate jail terms to the senior officials of Abhijeet Infrastructure Ltd in an alleged case of irregularities related to the allocation of three coal blocks in Jharkhand.

Police probe lynching of PLFI members by villagers

RANCHI: Police in West Singbhum district have launched an investigation into reports of villagers lynching members of the banned People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI), a splinter group of the CPI (Maoists), amid challenges faced by the district administration in confirming the incidents and curbing the practice, officials said on Wednesday.

State to take legal recourse for ₹1.36L cr dues from Centre: Guv

RANCHI: The Jharkhand government will exercise legal options to compel the Centre to clear payment of ₹1.36 lakh crore in outstanding dues, Governor Santosh Kumar Gangwar said on Wednesday, addressing the first session of the sixth state assembly.

3-JUDGE SC BENCH TO HEAR PLEAS AGAINST PLACES OF WORSHIP TODAY

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Thursday a batch of petitions challenging the validity of certain provisions of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991, that prohibits filing a lawsuit to reclaim a place of worship or seek a change in its character from what prevailed on August 15, 1947.

WTC's imperfections laid bare by SA's late charge

MUMBAI: The screams and singing from the South Africa team celebrations echoed across St George's Park at Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth) after their series-clinching Test win against Sri Lanka on Monday.

Dharmendra summoned by Delhi court in Garam Dharam Dhaba cheating case

The Patiala House Court in Delhi recently issued summons against veteran actor Dharmendra, 89, and two others in a cheating case related to the Garam Dharam Dhaba franchise.

SA on top of WTC table, pressure on India to win series

KOLKATA: South Africa defeated Sri Lanka by 109 runs in Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth) to win the two-match series 2-0 on Monday and as a result moved up to No.1 on the ICC World Test Championship table with 63.33 percentage points.

IndiGo to ramp up biz class to about 45 aircraft by '26

NEW DELHI: Buoyed by an enthusiastic response, India's largest air carrier IndiGo plans to expand its business-class product IndiGoStretch to about 45 aircraft by 2026.

AMAZON JOINS Q-COMM RACE

Amazon will begin trials for quick commerce operations in India that would see the U.S. e-commerce giant deliver grocery items in 15 minutes or less, it said on Tuesday.

MORE AIR INDIA FLYERS GET ACCESS TO INFLIGHT STREAMING

MUMBAI: Private carrier Air India on Tuesday said it has extended its wireless inflight entertainment service to its single-aisle fleet.

AMAZON JOINS Q-COMM RACE

NEW DELHI: E-commerce major Amazon on Tuesday pledged its commitment to enabling $80 billion in cumulative exports from India by 2030.

Gross NPAs of public sector banks at ₹3.16 lakh cr till Sep

NEW DELHI: The gross non-performing assets of public sector banks (PSBs) stood at ₹3.16 lakh crore as of September 30, which is 3.09% of the outstanding loans, Parliament was informed on Tuesday.

INDIA SET FOR RESILIENT GROWTH IN 2025, MODEST INTEREST RATE CUT EXPECTED: S&P

NEW DELHI: S&P Global Ratings on Tuesday said the Indian economy is set for \"resilient growth\" in 2025 and projected inflation pressure to recede, which will lead to \"modest\" easing of the monetary policy by the RBI.

Policy tweaks drag sale of subsidised e-2W to 3-year low

NEW DELHI: The number of electric two-wheelers for which buyers claimed subsidies has dropped to a three-year low this fiscal, as automakers skipped the benefits following stringent rules and frequent changes in criteria.