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Intense heat grips Andhra, mercury in Hyderabad touches 44
Andhra Pradesh sizzled Thursday with the day temperature in most of the towns crossing 43 degree Celsius while the mercury in the state capital touched 44, the season's highest.
Driver held for massacre of seven of family in Ghaziabad
Cracking the gruesome murder case in Ghaziabad where seven persons of a family, including three children, were hacked to death late Tuesday, Uttar Pradesh Police Thursday arrested the family's former driver who confessed to the killings in a fit of rage.
Shashi Kant Sharma sworn-in new CAG
Shashi Kant Sharma, a Bihar cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, was Thursday sworn-in the new Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), the government's official auditor.
Bomb hoax at IIMB
A telephone call about a bomb being planted in the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) today created panic with the staff and the students being evacuated from the building but it turned out to be hoax.
Mumbai Police in Chennai to question CSK CEO Meiyappan
Mumbai Police will today question BCCI president N Srinivasan's son-in-law and CEO of Chennai Super Kings Gurunath Meiyappan in connection with the IPL betting scandal.
BJP youth wing workers detained during protest
About 30 activists of the BJP's youth wing protesting the UPA-II government's corruption scandals were detained when they were trying to march towards Connaught Place in central Delhi.
Indian-origin boy wins National Geographic Bee contest
Sathwik Karnik, an Indian-origin boy from Massachusetts has won this year's National Geographic Bee contest after gruelling rounds testing his geographic knowledge about lions in Botswana, mountain ranges in Asia and port cities in England.
Delhi sizzles as mercury soars
Delhi sizzles as mercury soars
The heat wave continued unabated in the Indian capital Thursday with the minimum temperature settling five notches above average at 31.4 degrees Celsius and the maximum expected to hover around the 45 degrees Celsius mark.
PM calls for reorientation of country's strategic thinking
PM calls for reorientation of country's strategic thinking
India faces an entire spectrum of security challenges and there is need for reorientation of the country's strategic thinking and reappraisal of its higher defence organisations, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Thursday.
Saradha scam: Suicide abetment case slapped on Sudipta Sen
Saradha scam: Suicide abetment case slapped on Sudipta Sen
A suicide abetment case was registered Wednesday against suspected kingpin of Saradha Group chit fund scam Sudipta Sen and two others following the suicide of an investor, police said. A Group employee also killed himself.
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