Venugopalan Nair, 49, has set himself a blaze by pouring petrol over his body in front of the Bharatiya Janata Party protest venue in Sabarimala at around 2am on Thursday.
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Christian Michel, an alleged middleman in the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper scam, has been sent to a five-day CBI custody by a Delhi court. Michel was extradited to India from Dubai, from where he was flown to New Delhi.
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While responding to the criticism and clarifying the role of his department in the release of GDP back-series data by the Central Statistics Office, the NITI Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar said that the department was asked to look at the data before its release.
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The Maharashtra government, on Sunday, has approved the recommendations submitted by the State Backward Class Commission to grant maratha community in the state reservation under newly created “socially and educationally backward class”.
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The National Investigation Agency charged all seven accused in 2008 Malegaon blasts case, including Lieutenant Colonel Srikant Purohit and Pragya Singh Thakur, with terror conspiracy, murder and other related offences, on Monday.
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In a fresh Naxalite attack near Maoist-infected Dantewada district’s Aranpur village, a Doordarshan cameraman and two policemen were killed. Two more policemen sustained injuries in the attack and were sent to a nearby hospital for treatment.
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Around 60 people were killed and nearly a 100 injured when a speeding train ran over a crowd watching Ravan dahan (burning of Ravan’s effigy marking the end of the Ramlila during the 10-day Dussehra festival) in Amritsar, on Friday night.
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The Tamil Nadu Raj Bhawan has strongly rejected reports published by the biweekly Tamil magazine Nakkeeran, which names the governor, Banwarilal Purohit, and his staff in a university sex scandal and termed the reports as yellow journalism.
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A top official of Dassault Aviation allegedly conveyed to his staff that the joint venture with Reliance to obtain 36 Rafale jet deal with India was mandatory.
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Gopal was arrested by Chennai Police on Tuesday morning, for reporting a series of alleged complaints against Tamil Nadu governor Banwarilal Purohit.
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