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Chief secretary R K Tiwari informed that the action was taken on the basis of continuous complaints of negligence in the upkeep of stray cows.

Kolkata has bagged the prestigious C40 award in Copenhagen for green mobility - low carbon commute transition- on Thursday.

The police vehicle was escorting additional director general of police (ADGP)on the highway when it collided with a passenger bus at Dhaloti Morh in Kathua.

The first phase of East-West corridor of Kolkata Metro was originally scheduled to become operation by 2012 but problems including land acquisition, slum relocation and route alignment delayed the project.

The 27-year-old woman, a resident of Jogeshwari area, came in contact with the accused - Vanshraj Dwivedi - in 2015, an official at Meghwadi police station said.

The incident took place on Sunday late night at Milki police outpost in Malda district and four police personnel were injured, a senior officer said.

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The raids, titled 'Operation P-Hunt 3', were conducted across the state and police seized mobile phones, modems, hard disks, memory cards, laptops and desktops with pornographic materials.

A police official said that more security personnel, along with the flying squad, were deployed in Lal Chowk, Jehangir Chowk, Hari Singh High Street, Regal Chowk, TRC Chowk, Polo View and the areas around the city centre.

To prevent the breeding of mosquitoes, municipal bodies in Uttar Pradesh have been asked to get rid of the larvae and stagnant water.

Ranveer Singh, a Class XII student, was a resident of Sultanpind village in Amritsar. He shot himself in the head near Ramsoo on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway late on Saturday, a police official said.

On the second day of his two-day Gujarat visit, the president and his wife Savita Kovind met the prime minister's nonagenarian mother at her residence in Raisan village, where she lives with her younger son Pankaj Modi.

The 17-year-old girl was diagnosed with dengue fever after which her health started to deteriorate rapidly. She died of dengue haemorrhage fever on October 6.

Kadri Gopalnath, who became synonymous with the saxophone in India, passed away at 69 on Friday.

The man asked a fellow passenger what his destination was, who replied that he was travelling to Chennai. He then started shouting that a bomb was present on the 7:25 pm IndiGo flight bound for Chennai.