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New Delhi: Shooters who fired rounds at Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique sourced firearms from Rajasthan and stayed in a room in Patel Chawl of Kurla area in Mumbai. It was also revealed that the accused had practiced firing shots in September. The accused had searched for the room they stayed in on the internet and had finalised the same via a broker, who was identified as Abbas Sheikh. During interrogations, it was also revealed that two of the accused – Ram Kanoujia and Bhagwat Singh Om Singh, had travelled to Udaipur in July…

Bengaluru: Heavy, constant downpour over the past three days has left Bengaluru paralysed. The flooding has thrown public life into disarray and ruling and opposition parties are trading barbs over the handling of the flood situation in India’s Silicon Valley. Topping the list was the major tragedy in North Bengaluru’s Babusapalya where an under-construction building collapsed, leading to 21 labourers being trapped under the debris. Five people have died while five others have been injured. Rescue operation is underway to rescue trapped workers. Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar visited the building collapse site late on Tuesday night. Those who…

New Delhi: A total of 197 trains have been cancelled and educational institutes have been closed in vulnerable parts of West Bengal and Odisha as the two states brace for the landfall of Cyclone Dana in the early hours of October 25. A depression over the Bay of Bengal intensified into a severe cyclonic storm on Wednesday. It will cross Odisha-West Bengal coasts between Puri and Sagar Island in the early hours of October 25 with a wind speed of 100-110 kmph gusting to 120 kmph, the Met Office said. Advising fishermen not to venture into the sea from October…

New Delhi: India head coach Gautam Gambhir on Wednesday threw his weight behind under-fire batter KL Rahul, saying it’s the team management’s opinion that matters and not the criticism that he is facing on social media. Rahul was dismissed for a duck in the first innings of the opening Test against New Zealand in Bengaluru and made 12 in the second essay as the hosts lost the game by eight wickets. But it appears Gambhir is ready to give him a long rope. “Social media does not matter one bit. What the team management and leadership group thinks is very…

New Delhi: India men’s hockey head coach Craig Fulton has dismissed concerns over the relevance of bilateral series, saying these contests present teams a chance to test themselves. India are hosting world champion and Paris Olympics silver medallist Germany for a two-match Test series to be played in New Delhi on October 23 and 24. While addressing the media on the series eve at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium, Fulton explained that these two matches give India a good opportunity to blood in youngsters. “I think it’s always important to play Test matches and that’s the reason it’s called…

New Delhi: Rishabh Pant who missed a part of the first Test against New Zealand in Bengaluru due to a knee injury, is all but set to feature for India in the second match at Pune. India’s assistant coach Ryan Ten Doeschate, speaking to media ahead of the second Test of the series, confirmed that though Pant’s appearance in the match isn’t 100% certain, he is looking on course to make the XI for the match. There were suggestions of Dhruv Jurel replacing Pant behind the stumps for the match. But, it seems like the southpaw is all set to…

New Delhi: The Supreme Court grilled the central – and Punjab and Haryana – governments Wednesday as arguments over states’ non-compliance with, and failure to enforce, anti-pollution measures, rolled into yet another hearing, even as air quality in Delhi and the national capital region remains ‘very poor’ and prompts concern over the risk of increased respiratory diseases. A bench of Justice Abhay S Oka, Justice A Amanullah, and Justice AG Masih, dismissed as “mere eyewash” the Punjab and Haryana governments’ efforts to stamp out farm fires – i.e., farmers burning agricultural waste – that contribute to toxic air smothering Delhi…