The following are top stories of the northern region at 2200 hrs:
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Srinagar The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducts searches at about a dozen locations in Jammu and Kashmir in connection with the terror funding case against separatists and others which included the residence of a relative of a ruling PDP MLC.
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Shimla: Search operations continue on the fifth day after a massive landslide in Himachal Pradesh's Kotrupi in which two buses were swept away, killing 46 people.
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New Delhi: The Punjab and Haryana governments apprise the Centre about the steps taken by them to maintain law and order ahead of a special court's verdict in a case of an alleged rape involving Dera Sacha Sauda sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, says a Home Ministry official.
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New Delhi: The Indian Medical Association (IMA) appoints a team of three members to inquire into the death of nearly 70 children at a hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur city.
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Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir government begins the construction of 100 bunkers in border villages along the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district where there have been repeated ceasefire violations by Pakistan forces.
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Uttarkashi: Taking one kilogram of waste to a garbage bin will now make residents eligible to win a mobile phone in this Uttarakhand district.
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Jammu: A BJP MLA is injured as some angry persons pelt his cavalcade with stones in Jammu and Kashmir's Samba district where he went to take part in the cremation of two persons, who were among four who died in an accident.
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New Delhi/Srinagar: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducts searches at about a dozen locations in Jammu and Kashmir in connection with the terror funding case against separatists and others.
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Dehradun: Two more bodies are recovered from Dharchula area of Pithoragarh district, taking the death toll in the recent cloudbursts there to eight while relief as rescue operations continue in search of the missing.
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Lucknow: Amid allegations that shortage of oxygen cylinders at a Gorakhpur hospital led to the deaths of scores of children, Uttar Pradesh health minister Siddharth Nath Singh says that loss of life due to such a reason is nothing less than heinous crime.
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Muzaffarnagar (UP): Three men arrested in June for allegedly slaughtering cows are booked under the National Security Act (NSA), says a senior district official.
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New Delhi: The Centre gives its nod to the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) to raise extra budgetary resources (EBR), up to Rs 9,020 crore, through bonds during the current fiscal to fund 99 ongoing irrigation projects under the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY).
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