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Panel to overhaul exam system

MUMBAI, Aug. 13 -- Amid the public outrage over a series of paper leaks, the Maharashtra government has decided to undertake a comprehensive overhaul of its recruitment examination system. The process... Read More


BMC to resume water supply to pools as lake levels rise

Mumbai, Aug. 13 -- The city's swimming pools can get their water supply back, as the city's seven reservoirs now hold nearly 90% of their maximum stock. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) ha... Read More


Pawar meets NCP (SP) MPs, Sule takes car ride with BJP's Tawde

Mumbai, Aug. 13 -- Amid speculation over a possible reunification of the two factions of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Sharad Pawar, president of the NCP (SP), held a meeting with all eight of... Read More


Nisha da Cunha, writer and beloved literature professor, dies at 92

India, Aug. 13 -- Veteran author and educator Nisha da Cunha passed away at her residence on Tuesday evening at the age of 92, leaving behind a literary legacy as rich as her fiction. Remembered for h... Read More


Minister's kin held for duping man seeking Kumbh tenders

MUMBAI, Aug. 13 -- Two relatives of senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and water resources minister Girish Mahajan have been arrested by the Nashik police for forging documents to collect a Rs... Read More


7 held for kidnapping 3-month-old Gzb boy

Ghaziabad, Aug. 13 -- The police on Wednesday arrested seven people allegedly involved in the kidnapping of a three-month-old boy from his home in Sahibabad near Tila Morh on August 9. The accused all... Read More


Ghaziabad: Man Jumps to Death From 25th Floor

Ghaziabad, Aug. 13 -- A 22-year-old man died after allegedly jumping off the 25th floor of a residential high-rise near NH-9 in Ghaziabad on Wednesday morning, police said. Police said locals alerted ... Read More


Five held for posing as cops, extorting Rs.29L

Greater Noida, Aug. 13 -- Five men were arrested for allegedly posing as police officers and extorting Rs.29 lakh from a 40-year-old tax consultant after abducting and threatening to kill him in a sta... Read More


Kanwariyas leave 7K tonnes of garbage, clean-up begins

Haridwar, Aug. 13 -- With 48 million kanwariyas visiting Haridwar during the recently concluded Shravan Kanwar fair, around 7,000 tonnes of garbage has been left by the devotees in the city, civic off... Read More


Pvt finance firm employee shot dead in Siwan district

PATNA, Aug. 13 -- Four armed men riding on a bike gunned down an employee of a private finance company, Nitish Kumar alias Piklu, near Tarwara market, barely 500 metres from the GB Nagar police statio... Read More