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Puri Police Arrest Six Snatchers, Recover Stolen Cash, Mobiles Phones

Puri: Puri Police have arrested six snatchers, including four members of inter-state gangs, and recovered stolen cash, mobile phones and bags in a series of swift operations as part of enhanced security arrangements for Rath Yatra-2026.   Police said the Anti-Snatching Team detected two cases registered at Seabeach Police Station on July 12 and arrested…

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Pregnancy rewires a woman’s brain with each child, finds study

New Delhi, 13/7: Pregnancy brings significant mental and physical changes to a woman’s body. It also changes a woman’s brain structure and resting-state brain activity. Recent research has revealed that her brain alters with each pregnancy. The research, conducted by scientists at Amsterdam University Medical Centre and published in Nature Communications, followed 110 women using…

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Supreme Court quashes Assam Tribunal orders declaring people foreigners

New Delhi, 13/7: The Supreme Court on Monday emphasised that the citizenship determinations must be carried out through a fair, lawful and reasonable process as it set aside the judgments passed by the Gauhati High Court upholding declaration of 27 people as foreigners.The state has a legitimate and compelling interest in ensuring that persons who…

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OCC Executive Engineer under Vigilance Scanner in Disproportionate Assets Case

The Odisha Vigilance on Monday launched simultaneous searches at seven locations linked to Sanjay Kumar Kispatta, Executive Engineer of Odisha Construction Corporation (OCC) Ltd., Bhubaneswar, in connection with an alleged disproportionate assets (DA) case.According to Vigilance officials, Kispatta, who previously served as Assistant Executive Engineer at the Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA), Koraput, is under…

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Occult rituals involving hair, live chicken, forced pills to conceive’: Former Shiv Sena (UBT) MP’s daughter-in-law accuses family of torture

Mumbai, 12/7: The daughter-in-law of Shiv Sena (UBT) leader and former MP Vinayak Raut alleged that she faced harassment at her marital home. She claimed that a self-styled godman tried to perform occult practices on her and the forced administration of pills to conceive.Raut and five others have been booked, while her advocate has demanded…

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I am a Hindu, but I lock up my religion inside my house’: Former BJP leader Annamalai

Chennai, 12/7: Former BJP Tamil Nadu President K Annamalai on Sunday, addresing his foundation’s first anti-drug conference at Pollachi, said that one need not display their religious identity outside There is no need to highlight and display religion everytime,” he said while stating that when he steps out, he locks up his caste and religion…

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If not in Delhi, then where?’ says Omar Abdullah, announces statehood protest on July 20

Jammu, 12/7: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday announced a fresh phase of protests beginning July 20 against the Centre in Delhi over “unexplained delay” in restoring of statehood to the Union Territory. Addressing a public rally here, Abdullah said his party waited for two years after the Assembly election in the…

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