Narendra Modi inaugurates Bansagar canal project in Mirzapur
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Bansagar canal project and laid the foundation stone for Mirzapur medical college in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday.
Mr. Modi, while addressing a public meeting in Mirzapur after the inauguration, attacked the previous governments headed by Opposition parties, accusing them of neglecting the people and not completing development projects on time.
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A woman was burnt alive after having been gang-raped allegedly by five persons in her house in Gunnaur area, near Sambhal, the police said on July 15.
The incident took place late on July 13 when the 30-year-old victim was alone in her house with her daughter, the police said, adding the five persons barged into her house and allegedly raped her.
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FIFA World Cup 2018 finals: Fiery Croats vs fluent French
After a month-long fight to the finish, two teams stand tall and will lock horns to call themselves the world champion for the next four years. It has been a World Cup of spectacular goals, of set piece mastery and surprises aplenty, like no tournament before.
India signs pact to ease visa restrictions for Bangladeshis
India on July 15 signed a revised travel agreement with Bangladesh to ease visa restrictions for citizens from the neighbouring country.
The agreement was signed between the two countries in Dhaka in presence of visiting Home Minister Rajnath Singh and his counterpart Asaduzzaman Khan.
Sindhu loses to Okuhara in final of Thailand Open
Olympic silver medallist PV Sindhu’s title drought this year continued as she suffered a straight-game defeat against Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara in the summit clash of the USD 350,000 Thailand Open World Tour Super 500 badminton tournament here on Sunday.
Godavari boat capsize: Heavy rain, high tide hamper rescue operations
Heavy rain coupled with high tide in the Bay of Bengal has been hampering the operations in the Gauthami river to rescue seven persons who went missing in the boat capsize that took place in Pasuvula Lanka in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh on Saturday night.
Rajinikanth backs simultaneous polls
At a time when major political parties in Tamil Nadu are opposed to the Central government’s proposal of ‘One India, One Election’, actor-turned-politician Rajinikanth on July 15 came out in support of it.
Theresa May says Donald Trump told her to ‘sue the European Union’
U.S. President Donald Trump told British Prime Minister Theresa May she should sue the European Union rather than negotiate with them, she said on July 15.
Ms. May said Mr. Trump’s self-declared “brutal” option in the Brexit negotiations was to sue Brussels, shedding light on his mysterious suggestion that has hung over their talks and his four-day visit to Britain.
Multiple casualties in suicide attack near Afghan ministry: police
An apparent suicide attack close to a government ministry in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday killed at least five people as staff were leaving the office in the evening rush hour, officials said.
A police spokesman said the explosion was believed to have been caused by a suicide attacker but had no further details.
No more recording of meetings, orders AAP govt.
Four months after video recording of Cabinet meetings was started, the Aam Aadmi Party dispensation decided to end the practice after a meeting on July 10 where multiple departments expressed concerns about the appointment of a consultant for procuring 1,000 electric buses.
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