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The cabinet said the recommendation would be sent to the governor immediately for action.

The case, involving a former minister of Jharkhand and his MLA wife, saw the lower court judge in Hazaribagh putting these accused on trial by pronouncing the order framing charges against them through a 'WhatsApp' call.

The 'modus operandi' of the accused was running a "binary scheme" in which an individual had to enrol two others who in turn would enrol two more leading to a chain. The victims were cheated by being promised commissions and other benefits.

Scrub Typhus, a mite-borne disease, has gripped the city and a team of National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) was recently sent to ascertain the cause of the outbreak.

On the fifth anniversary of the riots, the body said the displaced survivors still lived in squalor in resettlement colonies and the seven women survivors of gang rape, who were brave enough to file their complaints, were yet to receive justice.

ICAR had organized the All India Entrance Exam for Admission (AIEEA) 2018 August 18 and 19 across the country for candidates seeking admissions to Agricultural universities.

In India, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) currently offers around forty vocational courses in various departments like finance, tourism, hospitality, agriculture etc.

The policy now awaits the nod of the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. It covers urbanisable areas of urban extensions at 95 villages in the city.

The First International Literacy Day was celebrated in the year 1967 with an agenda to imbibe reading and writing skills amongst children and adults from all backgrounds.

The strategy was earlier executed in 2010 when scores of policemen were deployed in the mob to identify and arrested stone pelters in the area.

At a press conference in November last year, the BSF DG had said there were about 36,000 Rohingyas in various parts of the country and the paramilitary force had upped its ante against their illegal influx into India.

Rahul, on this 20-day trip via Nepal, is travelling with a group of 20 other pilgrims from Gujarat and two Special Protection Group commandos.

Biometric technology will identify passengers by their face as they move across the airport, avoiding stops and the repeated presentation of boarding passes, passports or other physical identity documents.

Banerjee made the statement after presiding over a high-level meeting at the state secretariat on the bridge collapse in Majerhat that claimed the lives of three people.

Parts of Section 377 that criminalised consensual unnatural sex, are "irrational, indefensible and manifestly arbitrary", the apex court said in its ruling that made India the 26th country in the world where homosexuality is legal.

The judge highlighted that the essence of the Mental Healthcare Act will make it clear that "homosexuality is not considered to be a mental illness" and that this is a major advance in our law which has been recognised by Parliament itself.