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Meerut/Lucknow: A pregnant woman was allegedly given triple talaq by her husband in the Sardhana area in Meerut, just hours after the Supreme Court declared the age-old practice as "unconstitutional" on Tuesday.
DES 11 JK-STUDENT-MILITANCY
Jammu: The police in Jammu and Kashmir is investigating the case of an engineering student who left his studies to become a militant and his photograph holding an AK assault rifle is doing rounds on social media.
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Jammu: Panic grips Udhampur after rumours of a possible terror strike started doing the rounds on social media, even as the police dismissed as "baseless" reports of militants being sighted in the highway township.
Chandigarh: Mobile Internet services have been suspended for 72 hours in Haryana, Punjab and Chandigarh, ahead of the court verdict in the sexual exploitation case against the Dera Sacha Sauda sect head tomorrow.
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Chandigarh: The Punjab government declares that its offices situated at Chandigarh would remain closed on August 25, the day on which a court verdict is expected in a sexual exploitation case against Dera Scaha Sauda sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.
DES 9 JK-TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS PANIC
Bhaderwah/Jammu: The police imposes travel restrictions in the high-altitude tourist areas and meadow-lands in the BhadarwahValley of Doda district in Jammu and Kashmir, sending people into a tizzy.
New Delhi: Resident doctors at the Safdarjung Hospital here have proceeded on an indefinite strike alleging that one of their colleagues was assaulted by a woman patient.
DES 4 JK-QUAKE
Srinagar: A moderate-intensity earthquake strikes Jammu and Kashmir in the early hours.
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Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government transfers Additional Chief Secretary (Medical Education) Anita Bhatnagar Jain in connection with the deaths of children at state-run BRD college in Gorakhpur, an official spokesperson says.
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New Delhi: Senior diplomat Randhir Kumar Jaiswal is appointed as social secretary to President Ram Nath Kovind.
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