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The farmer hanged himself from a tree, triggering panic in the area. Police said he was immediately rushed to a hospital, where doctors declared him dead.

The house was an old structure and heavy rains had lashed the area over the past two days leading to cracks in the building.

"Let us reaffirm our pledge to ensure safety and respect for women, so that they can move forward unhindered according to their wish in the direction of fulfilling their hopes and aspirations," said the President.

The restriction on foreign travel of ministers comes after CM Naveen Patnaik decided to skip Holi celebrations and exempted government employees from using the biometric system to mark their attendance to arrest the spread of coronavirus.

The police said that following a tip-off about power theft, they zeroed in on the man, a resident of Navi Mumbai, who ad stolen 34,465 units of electricity.

A plea against Karate to the high court was made by Vikas Raina, a migrant Kashmiri pandit, whose father, the principal of a higher secondary school, was killed by Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists in Gool in 1997 along with two other teachers of the school.

In a question that asked for matching pairs, one of the options was “Azad Kashmir". The state government ordered a probe into the matter as the picture circulated on social media.

Muhammed Savad, who hailed from Mallappuram in Kerala, was in the passenger seat when the accident took place and died on the spot.

The accident took place around 4 am at Bairiya crossing on the NH 28 when the Deoria depot bus on its way to Padrouna from Kasya to Padrouna was hit by a truck, cops said.

An ex gratia of Rs 4 lakh will be paid to the families of the deceased as per the state government's policy.

Earlier this month, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla assured Bangladesh the NRC updating process will have "no implications" for its people, asserting that it is a process that is "entirely internal" to India.

The central probe agency registered a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) against Kapoor after the raids at his home in Samudra Mahal area in connection with an old case.

Justice Muralidhar, 58, was given a rousing welcome by lawyers on his arrival here. Roads leading to the high court were dotted with banners, with one reading "Delhi's loss-Punjab's gain".

Most of the Iranian tourists, in India on tourism and business visas, have so far not been found at the hotel addresses they had provided on their visa application forms.

The industry has estimated severe loss as prices of chicken have gone down by almost 70 per cent in just a month alone to Rs 30 per kg in the wholesale market, Giriraj Singh said.

So far, 31 people have tested positive for coronavirus in India, according to the Union Health Ministry.