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Modi govt faces flak for reshaping speech of Tripura CM on Independence Day
A row erupted in Tripura Tuesday when Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, who heads a Left Front government in the state, alleged that Doordarshan and All India Radio (AIR) refused to broadcast his Independence Day address unless he “reshaped” it.
Mohan Bhagwat restrained from hoisting Tricolour at Palakkad school, RSS chief defies order
Mohan Bhagwat was prohibited from hoisting the National flag at a school in Palakkad in Kerala on Independence day, however, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief went ahead with the programme defying the the district administration's order.
Government to Google, Facebook, Microsoft and others: Remove all Blue Whale links
New Dehi: Government has directed internet majors - Google, Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, Microsoft and Yahoo - to immediately remove the links of dangerous online game Blue Whale Challenge, which has led to suicide of children in India and other countries.
Minor boy rescued from open borewell after 10-hour operation
Amaravati: A two-year-old boy accidentally fell into an open borewell in Guntur district last evening and was successfully rescued after a 10-hour operation by the National Disaster Response Force and other teams.
Terror funding case: NIA raids 12 locations in Kashmir
New Delhi/Srinagar: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) today conducted searches at about a dozen locations in Jammu and Kashmir in connection with the terror funding case against separatists and others.
At J-K I-day function, most remain seated when national anthem played
Srinagar: The main Independence Day function at the Bakshi stadium here saw most of the people in the general stands remain seated when the national anthem was played soon after Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti unfurled the Tricolour.
Martyr's daughter, wife unfurl flag at the spot where he fell last year
Srinagar: The six-year-old daughter of slain CRPF Commandant Pramod Kumar and his wife on Tuesday unfurled the Tricolour at the same battalion camp here, where exactly a year ago he hoisted the flag and was killed minutes later in an encounter with militants.
3 students killed in road accident near Chak Manga area in Jammu
Jammu: Three students were killed in a road mishap near Chak Manga area when a minibus met with an accident.
2 Mandi villages evacuated after landslide
Mandi: Even as the district authorities today engaged a dog squad to locate the bodies of missing victims of Sunday’s massive landslide at Kotrupi village in Padhar, 35 km from here, threat looms large over five villages.
32 victims identified; search fails to find more bodies
The district administration today engaged a dog squad in the search operation to locate the body of missing victims, but failed to find any body. Earth-moving machine was engaged at two places, one near the road side where HRTC bus HP63-5840 was trapped under debris, another at 1,000 metre downside from the road, where anther HRTC bus HP73-4423 was trapped under the debris.