Following are the top stories of the northern region at 2100 hrs:

Following are the top stories of the northern region at 2100 hrs:

DES33 RJ-RAIN-LD RELIEF

Jaipur: The Army rescues 27 people from southwestern and southeastern Rajasthan as the situation gradually improves in these areas which faced floods over the last two days due to heavy downpour.

DEL74 PB-IRAQ-INDIANS-FAMILIES

Chandigarh: The families of the 39 Indians abducted in Iraq in 2014 accuse the government of keeping them in the dark for three years, saying the Centre did not have any concrete information about their missing kin.

DES46 PB-WOMEN-THRASHING

Abohar (Pb): Seven people, including an Akali leader, booked for allegedly beating up five Dalit women.
 

DES39 RJ-DALIT RAPE

Sikar: A 17-year-old Dalit girl is allegedly abducted, raped by four people in Rajasthan's Churu district when she went to relieve herself in a field last night.

DES27 NHRC-LYNCHING-JUNAID

New Delhi: The NHRC issues notices to the Railways, the Haryana government and its police chief over the killing of a Muslim youth on a train in Faridabad last month.

DES6 RSQ-COMMUNAL

New Delhi: Altogether 450 incidents of communal violence took place in Uttar Pradesh in the last three years, 162 of which were reported in 2016, the Rajya Sabha is told today.

DES34 JK LD-KARGIL-ARMY TRIBUTE

Srinagar/Jammu: The Army pays glowing tribute to the soldiers who laid down their lives in the 1999 Kargil conflict in poignant ceremonies across Jammu and Kashmir.

DES7 JK-AMARNATH

Jammu: A batch of 473 pilgrims leaves Jammu for the 3,888 metre-high Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir, amid tight security.

LGD8 UP-COURT AYUSH

Lucknow: The Allahabad High Court quashes the UP government's decision to admit students to AYUSH undergraduate courses in different colleges of the state through a merit list prepared on the basis of NEET exam for admissions to medical courses.

DES17 DL-KEJRIWAL-CORRUPTION

New Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal claims the level of corruption in various Delhi government departments has reduced by around 70 per cent after the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) came to power.

DES10 LSQ-INTERVIEWS

New Delhi: BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh are among about 10 states which are yet to discontinue the process of interview for recruitment on lower-level posts in government departments, the Lok Sabha was informed today.

DES47 DL-LD-ACCIDENT

New Delhi: Five members of a family are killed and four others injured after their car is hit, allegedly by an East Delhi Municipal Corporation dumper in Kalyanpuri.

NRG12 UP-ASSEMBLY-LIQUOR

Lucknow: Forty-one people have died after consuming illicit liquor in Uttar Pradesh between January last year and June 2017, the state government tells the assembly.