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DEORIA: Six people, including two women, were killed in violence apparently stemming from an already resolved land dispute in Fatehpur village, 20 km from the district headquarters, on Monday morning. Five of the deceased were from the same family. Fourteen people have been detained by police.Post-mortem examinations of the six bodies had been conducted by late Monday evening. Police sources privy to...

GURGAON: Four persons, including a lawyer, were arrested for orchestrating a fraud in which they sold off an NRI's Rs 40 crore plot off the Southern Peripheral Road.An assistant sub-inspector of the economic offences wing was also arrested for negligence in his probe and not finding any wrongdoing even after weeks of sifting through documents. Police later formed an SIT, which eventually found out how...

GURGAON: The Gurgaon Police has arrested five people including a lawyer and an assistant sub-inspector in connection with the grabbing of an NRI's land worth Rs 40 crore. The fraud was effected through fake General Power of Attorney, an officer said Wednesday.According to police, the accused got an NRI's land worth Rs 40 crore in their name forging papers, showing that they had bought it for Rs 6.6...

GUWAHATI: China’s latest claim to Arunachal Pradesh by releasing a list of “standardised geographical names” for 11 places in the frontier state turns out to be a random naming of isolated forest tracts, nondescript peaks, non-existent rivers and town areas superficially bound together as part of Cona, Zayu and Medog counties in Nyingchi prefecture of Tibet. For instance, the coordinates of two...

Nirmal Singh Ranswal, a class XII passout from Champawat, Uttarakhand, steps out on the field with a measuring tape. On this particular morning, he needs to sow cabbage; between every two saplings, he must leave a precise gap of 30cm. For, that is the sowing pattern followed in large swathes of Ichihara located in Chiba prefecture in Japan, where he is employed. With over 20% of the country's population...