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Rohingya fearing repatriation flee India for Bangladesh

DHAKA, Bangladesh; 12 Jan 2019; AA: Dozens of Rohingya arrived in Bangladesh from India, days after New Delhi deported five members of Myanmar’s minority Muslim community amid concerns from rights groups, officials said.

The UN Refugee Agency had regretted India’s decision to deport a second group of Rohingya.

India: HBTU gets extra seats in engineering courses

KANPUR: The admission committee of the prestigious Harcourt Butler Technical University has decided to increase seats in the engineering branches. In a meeting held on January 10, 2019, a consensus on making admission possible at least on 120 seats on all the seven branches of the engineering department has reached.

India: Cong leaders to meet in Lucknow for 2019 LS elections

Lucknow, Jan 12 : Close on the heels of the SP-BSP announcing an alliance in Uttar Pradesh for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, senior Congress leaders including AICC in-charge Ghulam Nabi Azad will meet here Sunday to chalk out the party's strategy.

"Ghulam Nabi Azad, UPCC president Raj Babbar and other senior leaders will arrive in the state capital Sunday to hold meetings for finalising the strategy," Pradesh Congress Committee spokesperson Anshu Awasthi told PTI.

India: Andhra Gov signs MoU on world's first 100% renewable energy data centers

13 Jan 2019; PTI: World's first 100% renewable powered data center parks to be created in Visakhapatnam positions Andhra Pradesh as the East Coast Data Center hub for India & SE Asia

Adani Group to invest Rs. 70,000 crores, potentially creating over 100,000 jobs over 20 years

Indian Muslim couple get married in hospital after suicide attempt

Hyderabad, Jan 12 (PTI) This is a love story that could have gone awry, but all's well that ends well.

The protagonists-- a Muslim couple in Vikarabad district of Telangana-- tied the knot in a hospital after their parents, who initially did not agree to their wedding, came around when they allegedly attempted suicide.

Police Saturday said 21-year-old Nawaz and Reshma, 18, were related and wanted to get married.

However, their parents did not agree,they said.

Head of Indian govt nominated panel on Assam quits

Guwahati/New Delhi, Jan 12 (PTI) M P Bezbaruah, who was appointed as the head of a Centre-nominated committee to assess the implementation of Clause 6 of the Assam Accord, has declined to be a part of it, leaving the nine-member body in the lurch.

Bezbaruah is the fifth member to leave the committee. He has written to the Union Home Ministry in this regard.

India: Missing veterinary doctor found dead in Muzaffarnagar

Muzaffarnagar (UP) Jan 12 (PTI) A 45-year-old veterinary doctor was found dead at Morna town under Bhopa Police Station limits here on Saturday, officials said.

The deceased Satish Kumar was missing since Friday, said SSP Sudhir Kumar. Officials believe Satish had been abducted and murdered by his kidnappers.

The victim's body was found with head injuries and it has been sent for post-mortem, they added.

India: Naxal terrorist held in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh

Raipur, Jan 12 (PTI) A Naxal carrying a reward of Rs 3 lakh on his head was arrested in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district, police said Saturday.

Chainu alias Chukla (24) was allegedly part of a Maoist team involved in an attack in Aranpur area in which two policemen and a Doordarshan cameraman were killed on October 30 last year, a senior police official said.

Acting on a tip-off, he was nabbed from Kuakonda police station area by a joint team of the police's special task force (STF) and District Force Friday, the official said.

Delhi CM Kejriwal receives threat mail

New Delhi, Jan 12 (PTI) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's office has received an anonymous email that threatened his daughter to kidnap her, sources said Saturday.

They said the Chief Minister's Office received an anonymous mail on January 9 following which the mail was forwarded to Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik.

A Protective Service Officer has been deployed for Kejriwal's daughter by North district Police.

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