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Pithoragarh: Six persons are killed while an Army jawan is missing after two separate cloudbursts in Dharchula sub division of the district.
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New Delhi: The national capital, including the Red Fort from where Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation on the 71st Independence Day tomorrow, has been put under an unprecedented ground-to-air security cover.
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New Delhi: CRPF commandants Pramod Kumar and Chetan Cheeta have been awarded Kirti Chakra, the second highest peacetime gallantry medal, on the eve of Independence Day for their brave exploits against terrorists in Kashmir.
Srinagar: Hizbul Mujahideen names Mohammad bin Qasim as its "field operational commander" in Kashmir in place of Yaseen Yattoo who was killed yesterday in a fierce gunbattle with security forces in Shopian district.
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Srinagar: Two militants belonging to Harkat-ul-Mujahideen outfit are arrested in north Kashmir's Kupwara district, say police.
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New Delhi: The Congress demands that Prime Minister Narendra Modi apologise to the country in his Independence Day address for the death of children at a state-run hospital in Gorakhpur.
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Lucknow: Around 150 madrassas connected with the Barelvi sect decide not to follow the Uttar Pradesh government's order of reciting the national anthem and videography of the Independence Day function.
Shahjahanpur (UP): One person is arrested and his brother booked here for allegedly posting a photograph of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on social media in a derogatory manner, say police.
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Lucknow /Bahraich: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanth, who undertook an aerial survey of various flood affected districts in the state, suspends three officials and transfers the CMO of Gonda over alleged laxity in flood relief works.
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Srinagar: One person is killed in south Kashmir's Shopian district during security forces' action on a mob of stone pelters who were protesting after an encounter in which three militants were killed yesterday, say police.
Shimla: A village near the Mandi-Pathankot National Highway is declared unsafe and residents asked to shift to safer places in view of threat of landslides even as rescue operations are on at the site where two buses are trapped under mounds of debris.
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Chandigarh: On the eve of the Independence Day, the Haryana government has granted special remission to prisoners who are undergoing sentence as a result of their conviction by courts of criminal jurisdiction in the state.
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New Delhi: Ahead of Independence Day, three alleged members of different factions of Manipur-based terrorist outfit, Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP-PWG), including its commander-in-chief were arrested here, say police.
Gorakhpur (UP): Charging the Uttar Pradesh government with insensitivity over the death of children in a state-run hospital here, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav announces an assistance of Rs two lakh each to the families of the victims.