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Nine miners were killed and some others feared trapped following a cave-in at Lalmatia opencast coal mine at Rajmahal area of Eastern Coalfields Ltd (ECL) last night. “CMD, ECL, has reported that a total of nine bodies of workmen have been recovered…

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea filed by a lawyers’ body seeking a stay on the appointment of Jagdish Singh Khehar as the next Chief Justice of India. “No question of Justice Khehar usurping power through National Judicial Appointments Commission…

With SP facing a rebellion from Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav over ticket distribution, its supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav has called a meeting of all the candidates allotted tickets amid hectic efforts to stave off a possible split in the ruling party in…

A CBI court on Friday dismissed the bail petitions of sand mining baron J Shekar Reddy and four others who were arrested in connection with alleged seizure of over Rs 170 crore, including new currency notes, from their premises. The order was…

It is the common people who are victims of demonetisation, Malayalam writer A Sethumadhavan, better known by his pen name Sethu, said. “The move to nail black money hoarders has been without adequate proof and those who have been affected are the…

Immunisation of infants will be made convenient through specially designed digital lockets which will be given to newborns delivered in 81 sub-health centres in Udaipur from next month. The locket, named ‘Khushi Baby’, will have a chip containing details of the child…

A tribal panchayat samiti member was critically injured after being severely beaten up by Maoists in Odisha’s Malkangiri district in the wee hours today. A group of armed Maoists stormed Nilapadi village under Orkel police station limits and thrashed samiti member of…

Some auxiliary websites of the IIT Madras here have been found hacked and the institute today said it was examining the “vulnerabilities” that led to the hacking episode. The institute said it runs a “main website and auxiliary sites,” and these were…

Giving companies like Vodafone and Cairn Energy one more month to accept its offer to settle retro tax disputes, the government has extended till January 31 its one-time tax dispute resolution scheme. The Direct Tax Dispute Resolution Scheme, announced by Finance Minister…

A plea by a group of lawyers challenging the elevation of Justice J S Khehar as the next Chief Justice of India (CJI) was dismissed today by the Supreme Court which asserted that there was “no question” of him being considered ineligible…