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Srinagar, 30 March 2022: Two Kashmiris were killed on Wednesday by Indian security forces in Rainawari area of Srinagar of the Indian Administered Kashmir, Indian officials said.

One of the slained Kashmiri, Rayees Ahmad Bhat, based on his ID, was editor in chief of Valley Media Service.

Mangaluru, Mar 30 (PTI) Forty Muslim girl students from Udupi district of Karnataka abstained from appearing for the first pre-university examination on Tuesday as they were apparently hurt by the recent High Court verdict against wearing of hijab inside classrooms.

The students decided to not appear for the examination without wearing the headscarf as they were hurt by the March 15 order, sources said.

Aurangabad, Mar 30 (PTI) Police seized 37 swords and a dagger from a courier company's office in Maharashtra's Aurangabad city on Wednesday, an official said.

"We have come to know that these swords were brought from Amritsar and Jalandhar in Punjab. Seven people from Aurangabad and Jalna had placed orders for them. No one has been arrested so far," Deputy Commissioner of Police Ujwala Vankar told reporters.

New Delhi, Mar 30 (PTI) Taking a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said his daily to-do list includes raising petrol, diesel and gas prices, making farmers more helpless and showing "hollow dreams" of employment to the youth.

Gandhi used the hashtag "RozSubahKiBaat" with his tweet attacking the prime minister on a range of issues.

Kanpur: Kanpur Nagar was not among those districts where the Intermediate class English paper of UP Madhyamik Siksha Parishad was cancelled due to paper leak today.

Though the paper was cancelled in Kanpur Dehat district.

It was due to be held in the afternoon today, as the news said.

It was reported that the paper was held as scheduled in all other districts.

As many as 24 districts were reported where the paper has been cancelled.

Kanpur: Speaking on "Road to Techkriti", Bangladeshi Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus talked about his idea of creating a World of Three Zeros.

The three zeroes he went over are zero carbon emission, zero wealth concentration and zero unemployment.

He urged students to value nature and work towards preventing global warming.

He further said that the current profit-driven economic system had concentrated the capital in the hands of a few persons.

This leaves the economic system to be nothing but a ticking time bomb, hinted the Nobel awardee.

Kanpur: If anything that frightens the early morning walkers it is the monkey menace on the Cantonment side and the dog menace on the JK Colony side.

The monkeys do not commonly bite but the dogs leap to bite. The civic body does not show enough effort to catch both the animals to ensure the safety of strollers.

Has the catching squad become so inefficient as to move in those areas shaken under their influence? Ask several.

New Delhi, Mar 29 (PTI) As many as 1,205 paramilitary personnel have committed suicide in the last 10 years with the highest 156 in 2021, Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.

He said 143 personnel committed suicide in 2020, 129 in 2019, 96 in 2018, 125 in 2017, 92 in 2016, 108 in 2015, 125 in 2014, 113 in 2013 and 118 in 2012.

Domestic problems, illness and financial problems are some of the contributory factors to the incidents of suicide, he said replying to a written question.

Amaravati, Mar 28 (PTI): The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), founded by Nobel Laureate Esther Duflo, an economist, will extend its collaboration with the Andhra Pradesh government to help achieve the target set under the UN sustainable developmental goals.

Duflo and her team interacted with Chief Minister of the State Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy here on Monday and explored ways on working with the government.

Kanpur: A brutal incident shocked people as a man was killed with an axe in the Pali area of Narwhal police station here.

The body of the deceased was found soaked up in the blood when the police reached the spot.

The police, who reached the spot on information, took the body into possession and sent it for post-mortem after investigation.

The deceased, identified as Uday Bhan alias Chhotu, was attacked with an axe and murdered, which has now been sent for forensic examination.