With more than three dozen villages getting waterlogged in two districts, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday conducted an aerial survey of the affected areas.


Yamuna inundates Haryana villages, CM's aerial survey


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A total of foreign origin gold biscuits from two passengers travelling in an express train coming here from Assam and both persons arrested, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) said on Sunday.


Smuggled gold seized in Kolkata-bound train, two arrested


On a rainy July morning, Sumit Kumar, a murder convict in Delhis Tihar Jail, one of the country's largest, finishes his tea and rushes to begin his dance session in preparation for the latest season of a reality show that over the last few years has become a regular feature of the prison.


Jailhouse rock: In quest of the Tihar Idol - and reform (Social Feature)


Six women, including an actress, an author and two producers, who had professional ties with CBS CEO Leslie Moonves, have said they were sexually abused by him more than two decades ago.


Six women claim CBS CEO Moonves sexually abused them


The authorities in Delhi on Saturday began to evacuate hundreds of people living in the Yamuna catchment area as a flood threat loomed following a sharp rise in the river's level, officials said.


Evacuation begins as Yamuna level rises in Delhi (Fourth Lead)


A Bihar court on Saturday awarded life imprisonment to 14 persons and 10 years in jail to one person in the 2012 hooch tragedy reported in Ara in Bhojpur district, a government lawyer said.


14 get life, one a 10-year term for Bihar hooch tragedy


The Kerala Police on Saturday took into custody a person alleged to have been the key tormentor of a 19-year-old Kerala student, who was trolled on the social media for selling fish after college hours.


Police nab prime suspect in Kerala girl's trolling case


Several suspicious packages have been found at the Trump Tower in Manhattan that were being probed, the New York Police Department (NYPD) said.


Suspicious packages found in New York's Trump Tower


An apparent derailment attempt of the Etawah-Mainpuri passenger train was averted in Uttar Pradesh, an official said on Saturday.


Train accident averted in UP


The Supreme Court on Friday raised concern over irresponsible behaviour of search engines and social networking sites like Google, Facebook, WhatsApp and Yahoo in promoting objectionable material leading to lynching of people, and warned imposing Rs five lakh per day on them if they fail to develop a foolproof mechanism to prevent uploading of such material.


SC slams social networking sites for failing to prevent offensive materials


More than 10 acres of agricultural land, on which paddy was sown, sank in Surajpur village in Gautam Budh Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, on Friday following a downpour. Farmers said they had suffered losses running into lakhs.


Farmland in UP's Gautam Budh Nagar sinks after downpour


Police have busted a fake online foreign exchange platform which was used to cheat at least 500 customers of over Rs 6.25 crore, an official said here on Friday.


Fake online forex trade platform busted in Mumbai, 10 held


The passage of the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Bill, 2013, corrects two fundamental flaws in the earlier Act by providing for punishment to both bribe givers and takers and requiring the element of dishonest intention of the public official to be proved for an offence, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Friday.


Anti-corruption bill amendments correct 2 major flaws: Jaitley


Senior IPS officer Amit Lodha is a strong votary of the saying that 'you set a thief to catch a thief'. And to outwit and catch a notorious outlaw, you have to think like him, he says.


Had to think like him to catch dreaded criminal, says IPS officer who wrote 'Bihar Diaries'


Fugitive diamond jeweller Mehul Choksi, who is wanted by Indian investigative agencies in the Rs 13,500 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud case, has denied "any truth in the allegations".


PNB fraud: Choksi denies any truth in allegations


Goa-based writer Damodar Mauzo has been provided police security following threat to his life in view of revelations made by those arrested in the murder case of activist-journalist Gauri Lankesh, police sources said on Thursday.


Goa writer Mauzo given security amid threat to life


The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on Thursday said it has busted a smuggling racket of imported readymade garments by a city-based syndicate and also detected customs duty evasion to the tune of Rs 25 crore.


4 held for garment smuggling, Rs 25 cr duty evasion detected


Days after the starvation deaths of three minor girls here, Congress on Thursday slammed the Aam Aadmi Party government for "complete failure of system" in the national capital.


Congress slams AAP for starvation deaths in national capital


At least 26 people have been confirmed dead and over 100 remain missing after an underconstruction dam collapsed in Laos just days back, state-run Lao News Agency reported on Thursday.


Toll rises to 26 in Laos dam collapse


The anti-smuggling unit of the Customs Division, Imphal on Wednesday held two persons from Punjab with contraband gold smuggled from Myanmar, an official said.


Contraband gold from Myanmar seized in Imphal, two arrested


The CBI on Wednesday said it had written to the Antiguan authorities seeking details of Mehul Choksi's whereabouts in connection with the Rs 13,500-crore Punjab National Bank fraud case.

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