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According to police, Shashank was in love with a girl, a  distant relative from Mysuru. The parents from both sides were opposed to this. The victim had taken her to his home on July 3, when she had come to Bengaluru.

Where shall our Pilot land? This question seems to be doing the rounds in the party ever since a report of former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot joining the team of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has come in.

The ACB, investigating the matter, revealed that a bribe was demanded for the recruitment of 'Executive Officer' in RPSC. A total of Rs 40 lakh was demanded. Later, the 'deal' was finalised for Rs 25 lakh.

Rajsamand MP and BJP General Secretary Diya Kumari on Saturday demanded the resignation of Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on moral grounds in wake of alleged rise in harassment cases, murder, rape, and Dalit oppression in the state.

A fire broke out on the ninth floor of the DCM building on Delhi’s Barakhamba Road on Saturday, a Delhi Fire Service (DFS) official said.

ISRO will be sending up its Aditya L1, a coronagraphy satellite, on a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)/rocket to study the solar atmosphere towards the end of August.

Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi has filed a plea before the Supreme Court against the Gujarat High Court's verdict denying to put a stay on his conviction in the ‘Modi surname' defamation case.

Speaking on the signing of the MoU, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said: "The MoU for establishment of IIT Delhi campus in Abu Dhabi in the presence of PM Modi unfolds a new chapter in internationalisation of India's education." 

In a swift operation, the Delhi Fire Services (DFS) on Saturday rescued more than 30 trainees from the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA) from Delhi's ITO.

Karnataka Police on Saturday seized 1,500 kg of ganja worth Rs 12 crore and arrested two persons, including an MBA graduate, in Bengaluru. According to the police, the prime accused in the case is the MBA graduate from Rajasthan.

Within a day, a second Trinamool Congress activist was killed on Saturday in post-poll violence in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, just hours after another party worker was hacked to death.

The operation to evacuate locals and tourists stranded in Himachal Pradesh due to flash floods triggered by heavy rains has been completed, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Sukhu said on Saturday.

In response riots and mob violence, the Gujarat government has extended the Gujarat Prohibition of Transfer of Immovable Property and Provision for Protection of Tenants from Eviction from Premises in Disturbed Areas Act, 1991, to parts of Savarkundla town in Amreli district.

Breakaway Nationalist Congress Party leader Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar declared that “family is priority” after he visited the Mumbai residence of his uncle and NCP President Sharad Pawar.

While the Scorpene submarines will be developed at the Mumbai-based Mazagon Docks, the tie-up for the engines will be with Safran for joint development and co-production of next-generation engines for fighter jets and an engine for a 13-tonne helicopter.

The ruling was given by a bench headed by Justice Krishna S. Dixit on a petition by two brothers, Gopal and Mahesh who pleaded before the court that they won’t be able to pay Rs 10,000 each as maintenance amount for their mother's care.

“Of the five deaths, four occurred on the Pahalgam route while one was reported on the Baltal route. The victims included an ITBP officer who died during Yatra duty. The victims hailed from Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and Gujarat,” the officials added.

A Trinamool Congress activist was hacked to death on Saturday by alleged All India Secular Front Activists (AISF) workers at Canning in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district.

Despite a slight decrease in the water level of the Yamuna river, parts of Delhi remained flooded on Saturday. As of Saturday morning, the water level stood at 207.53 meters, still 2.20 meters above the danger level but slightly lower than Friday's figure of 208.35.

Gwalior-based NRI College in Madhya Pradesh, reportedly owned by BJP MLA Sanjeev Kushwaha, has not just dented the credibility of the state Employee Selection Board (ESB) but has also put the future of more than 8000 job aspirants on stake.

Addressing a press briefing in Paris on the culmination of the Prime Minister's visit, Kwatra said: "It's a great camaraderie between President Emmanuel Macron and the Prime Minister, which you could easily sense from the visuals you would have seen."

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed a wide range of areas of bilateral cooperation during the delegation-level talks in Paris on Friday.

India sees France as a natural partner in the country's developmental journey, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in Paris on Friday. The Prime Minister said that in the war against terrorism, India and France have always been together. 

Trinamool Congress' national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Friday accused Justice Rajasekhar Mantha of the Calcutta High Court, without taking his name, of giving “protection to anti-social elements”.

The death toll in panchayat election related violence in West Bengal continued to rise after a BJP worker, who was injured in clashes on the counting day on July 11, died at a hospital on Friday.