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Kolkata hooch tragedy death toll rises to 27

New Delhi News.Net Tuesday 6th January, 2009 (IANS) The number of people who died in Kolkata after consuming poisonous country-made liquor has risen to 27, the police said Tuesday. 'Twenty-seven people have died till Tuesday...

Water supply to be affected

NEW DELHI: Because of annual flushing of booster pumping stations and underground reservoirs, water supply will be available at low pressure on Tuesday in several areas of the Capital.he affected areas are Shastri Nagar,...

Mumbai teen rapes disabled 4 yr-old

A four-year-old physically challenged girl was allegedly raped by an 18-year-old boy on Monday evening at Tata Nagar in Govandi. The accused, identified as Riyad Ahmed Qureshi, was caught by residents. The police said the girl...

Fresh snow intensifies cold wave, 15 dead

PHOTO: PTI Inside Shimla: Snow covered deodars after New Year’s first snowfall in the hill station on Sunday. NEW DELHI: Moderate to heavy snowfall in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand intensified the cold...

12 die as cold waves sweep through UP

Lucknow (PTI): Cold wave conditions continued to sweep the plains of Uttar Pradesh claiming at least 12 lives in the past 24 hours with mercury dipping to around 4°C at several places. A thick layer of fog marred visibility...

Engineer alleges extortion bid

Basti: The police on Tuesday recovered a rifle belonging to an alleged extortionist who had demanded ‘goonda tax’ from an executive engineer in Uttar Pradesh. Hari Narain Singh of the Flood Control Division complained that five...

Lie-detector of BSP MLA, others sought

By Our Special Correspondent With agency inputs Lucknow Dec. 30: Making considerable headway in the investigations in the lynching of the PWD engineer M.K. Gupta, the UP police has sought a lie-detector test of BSP MLA Shekhar...

Another Uttar Pradesh engineer threatened over money

A government engineer in Uttar Pradesh has alleged that he was attacked by a contractor and his associates in Basti district and that they demanded money from him, police said Tuesday, less than a week after another government...

Hooda announces funds for panchayat land

CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda announced on Sunday that a sum of Rs.10,000 per acre yearly would be given to those panchayats whose land would be acquired under the Mahatma Gandhi Grameen Basti Yojna...

The Delhi-Agra link

The New Year’s Eve party at Jacob’s home in Agra was a keenly awaited event, recounts R.V. SMITH New Year’s eve at the Jacobs’ home in the 1940s was an occasion for which one waited a whole year. The home was in Agra but most...

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