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A senior police official said the accused head constable, who is attached with the Dadri police station, has been suspended for "indecency" as the allegations of loot and assault have not been proved.

The convicts, identified as Marup Mujubi Shaikh and Ali Kalam Shaikh, were convicted under provisions of the Foreigners Act and the Passport Act by Thane assistant sessions court judge PM Gupta on January 2.

As many as 17 Sankranti specials will depart to Visakhapatnam and Tirupati. Train number 07451 will depart Hyderabad at 10.15 pm and arrive at Visakhapatnam the next day at 10.50 am.

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee asked Chief Secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay to issue a notification raising the occupancy limit of theatres from 50 to 100 per cent that had been restricted to ensure physical distancing.

A Delhi government official on Friday said around 50 birds, mostly crows, have died in Dwarka, Mayur Vihar Phase-III and Hastsal in west Delhi in the last three to four days.

Asked about the status of talks with the Chinese side over the border row, MEA Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said the latest round of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination (WMCC) was held on December 18 and the two sides have agreed to...

n the next few days, also in the near future, we should be able to give this vaccine to our countrymen prioritising those who are at risk in public and private sectors. The government has already made known the scheme of things," Dr Harsh Vardhan added.

A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde said that the decision is taken before Republic Day which is a "good date".

The case was registered on the complaint of IAF Deputy Assistant Provost Marshal, Wing Commander Tejveer Singh of No 2 P & S Unit AF, Air Force Police Hq, Race Cource, New Delhi, in which he alleged that a fake recruitment racket was reported to his unit.

Mathan Shunmugaraja had taken his former employer, Royal Mail, to the tribunal over unfair dismissal and allegations that despite being a Hindu he was mistaken for a Muslim and was called a sly dog by a former colleague.

As the case was assigned to a new court recently, special judge for cases under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act cases, S H Sathbhai, had sought appearance of the accused, a lawyer said.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said heavy to very heavy rainfall was observed at isolated places over Kerala and Mahe while heavy rainfall also occurred over isolated coastal and south interior Karnataka, coastal Andhra Pradesh and Rayalaseema.

The house was located on the third floor of a building. The incident took place when welding work was being carried out on the terrace of the three-storey building, they said.

Flight no AI-850 from Pune to Delhi will carry the first the consignment of the vaccines to the national capital, an official said.

Soon after the lockdown was announced in March and regular train services were suspended due to the pandemic, the time limit for ticket cancellation was extended from three days to three months and in May it was extended to six months.

The Centre on Wednesday had said that avian influenza or bird flu outbreak has been reported at 12 epicentres in Kerala, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh, while Haryana is on high alert due to unusual mortality at poultry farms in Panchkula.