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Child denied school admission over unusual name on Aadhaar card
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Child denied school admission over unusual name on Aadhaar card

Budaun (UP), Apr 4: A child was denied admission at a government school here as in place of her name, "Madhu ka Panchwa Baccha" and "Baby Five of Madhu" was written on the Aadhaar card, officials said on Monday. The card also did not carry the Aadhaar number, they said. The matter came up on...
Petrol, Diesel prices hiked by 40 paise for 12th time in two weeks
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Petrol, Diesel prices hiked by 40 paise for 12th time in two weeks

Guwahati, April 4: Petrol and diesel prices were hiked by 40 paise today for the 12th time since March 22, taking the total increase in rates in the last two weeks to ₹ 8.40 per litre.With the increase petrol in Delhi will now cost ₹ 103.81 per litre as against ₹ 103.41 previously, while diesel...
Teenage boy mauled to death in animal attack in MP
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Teenage boy mauled to death in animal attack in MP's Sanjay Tiger Reserve

Sidhi (MP), Apr 4: A 14-year-old boy was mauled to death by an unidentified wild animal in the Sanjay Tiger Reserve (STR) in Madhya Pradesh's Sidhi district, forest officials said on Monday. The villagers claimed that the boy was killed in the attack by a tiger but forest officials said...
Single-day rise in COVID-19 cases falls below 1,000 in India
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Single-day rise in COVID-19 cases falls below 1,000 in India

New Delhi, Apr 4: India recorded less than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases for the first time in 715 days even as the virus tally rose to 4,30,29,044, while the active infection count fell below 13,000, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. The number of active cases is the...
Vice chief Lt Gen Manoj Pande all set to become Army chief
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Vice chief Lt Gen Manoj Pande all set to become Army chief

New Delhi, April 3: Army Vice Lieutenant General Manoj Pande is all set to become Chief of the Army Staff with incumbent Army Chief General M.M. Naravane, seen as the frontrunner for the Chief of Defence Staff's post, is due to retire by the end of this month. Lt Gen Pande will take over the...
Multi-crore extortion scam having China link unearthed, 8 held
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Multi-crore extortion scam having China link unearthed, 8 held

New Delhi, April 3: Delhi Police have unearthed a multi-crore scam involving international fraudsters, extortionists and scamsters having direct links with Chinese nationals, and were involved in extorting money at an organised level, an official said on Sunday. Deputy Commissioner of Police (IFSO)...
India reports 1,096 new Covid cases, 81 deaths
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India reports 1,096 new Covid cases, 81 deaths

New Delhi, April 3: India reported 1,096 new Covid cases in a span of 24 hours, a decline from the previous day's count of 1,260, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Affairs said on Sunday. A total of 81 Covid related deaths were also reported in the 24-hour period across the nation, taking...
Petrol, Diesel prices hiked again by 80 paise
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Petrol, Diesel prices hiked again by 80 paise

New Delhi, April 3: Petrol and diesel prices were on Sunday again hiked by 80 paise a litre each, taking the total increase in rates in less then two weeks to ₹ 8 per litre. Petrol in Delhi will now cost ₹ 103.41 per litre as against ₹ 102.61 previously, while diesel rates have gone up from ₹ 93.87...
Kolkata-bound IndiGo flight develops snag while taking off, grounded
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Kolkata-bound IndiGo flight develops snag while taking off, grounded

Ranchi, Apr 2: A Kolkata-bound flight was grounded at the Ranchi airport on Saturday after it developed a technical snag while taking off, officials said. The 72-seater IndiGo flight with 62 passengers on board was to take off around 9 am, they said. "The air-conditioner of the plane developed...
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'Very sorry state of affairs': SC over delay in execution of arbitral awards

New Delhi, Apr 2: The Supreme Court has expressed concern over delay in execution of arbitral awards, calling it "a very sorry state of affairs". A bench of Justices M R Shah and B V Nagarathna made the observation while hearing a case in which the arbitral award passed in 1992 remained pending...
Petrol, diesel price becomes dearer by 80 paise today
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Petrol, diesel price becomes dearer by 80 paise today

Guwahati, April 2: In a notification issued by the Oil Marketing Companies (OMC) petrol and diesel prices have been hiked by Re 0.80 each on Saturday. After a break of one day this was the 10th time when petrol and diesel price were hiked in India in the last 12 days. With this the petrol price...
India records 1,260 new Covid cases, 83 deaths; active case count falls to 13K
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India records 1,260 new Covid cases, 83 deaths; active case count falls to 13K

New Delhi, Apr 2: India's virus tally rose to 4,30,27,035 with 1,260 fresh cases being reported in a day, while the number of active infections further declined to 13,445, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Saturday. The death toll from the pandemic climbed to 5,21,264 with...
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