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Leaders of religious and right-wing outfits say Morari Bapu should address sex workers in red-light areas instead of calling them to the "pious town of Ayodhya".

Experts say that while 2018 was a year of recovery following demonetisation and GST implementation, 2019 will be a year of caution.

The seers expressed disapproval after state's Religious Affair Minister Laxmi Narayan Chaudhary dubbed Lord Hanuman as a Jat, saying that like Jats, the deity never tolerated injustice, while another BJP leader dubbed Lord Hanuman as a Muslim on the groun...

In the case of the youngest to be killed, a bullet entered the back of 17-year-old J Snowlin's head and exited through her mouth, the autopsy found.

An order issued by outgoing Transport Commissioner Varsha Joshi on Friday said the new parking charges, ranging from Rs 6,000 to Rs 75,000, will be applicable from January 1, 2019.

"Under the new Mukhya Mantri Krishi Yojana, Rs 2,250 crore will be spent. The scheme will start from the 2019-20 financial year," Chief Minister Raghubar Das said.

The incident took place near Banswada on the Rishikesh-Kedarnath national highway, police said.

It is alleged that he had allegedly taken "unsecured loans" from three "chit fund companies", including Saradha Group, and laundered it through two of his publishing companies, a Bengali daily and a Bengali magazine.

Calling the argument strange, S S Naganand, the counsel for the consortium of banks, said, "There are no free assets that they own. They are insolvent."

The approval, given at a cabinet meeting chaired by CM Arvind Kejriwal, comes around two-and-a-half years after it had given in-principle nod to the Phase-IV project, which is expected to be completed by 2024.

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Forensic test has confirmed presence of organo phospate, called monochrotophos, in the prasad served at Karnataka temple that killed 15. The chemical found in a variety of pesticides — has been banned around the world, but is available in India.

Though a team of over 100 people are engaged in the rescue process, including seventy National Disaster Relief Forces and twenty two from their state counterpart, no headway has been made yet.

Saira Banu had approached Khar police station in January this year, alleging that Samir Bhojwani had forged documents to seize the actor’s property in Pali Hill, Bandra.

Two complaints were received on email and phone while one researcher lodged a formal complaint with the police last week, the SSP said.

Hamid Ansari was accompanied by his mother and other family members, who thanked Swaraj and the Ministry of External Affairs for persisting with the case and taking it up with Islamabad.