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The Board said that in spite of many directions, it had been found that some of the schools affiliated to it force children and their parents to buy books other than NCERT-CBSE texts.

Tremors were felt on Wednesday in several parts of India at around 7.30 pm.

People now will need written permission from the administration to burst firecrackers in public places.

On April 7, a sessions court in Mumbai had rejected Rahul's anticipatory bail application.

The NIA had on Friday secured arrest warrants against Masood Azhar, his brother Abdul Rauf and two others.

Senior officials said the explosives were being taken to the same temple where 108 people died in an accident during firework display.

The university administration has finalised its decision against the students but it has not been conveyed to them yet.

Another Gulf-based healthcare tycoon Azad Moopen rushed a ten-member medical team from his hospital Aster Medicity in Kochi to Kollam to help the victims.

The IAF is making all efforts to take the victims immediately to the nearby hospitals at Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram, a defence statement said.

Terming it a man-made disaster, Anita said, "Residents have been opposing it for years. But they were threatened. The government did nothing to stop this."

PM Narendra Modi along with a team of doctors specialising in treating burn injuries left for Kerala to take stock of the situation.

The ID card seized from him has his picture, the name of his college, his class and even the name of his father right, though the name is different.

After Gujarat, Nagaland and Mizoram, Bihar has now become the fourth state where liquor has been completely banned.

A Delhi based business consultant was killed in the incident that took place in the Civil Lines area of the national capital.