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8:11 pm: 127 Maoists surrender to the police in Malkangiri (Odisha) including a Maoist who had reward of Rs 1 lakh on him.

8:06 pm: Forest officials seize snake venom and arrest two persons in Jalpaiguri (WB).

7:50 pm: Delhi: Mogens Lykketoft (President-Elect of United Nation General Assembly) meets PM Narendra Modi (Source:PMO)

7:47 pm: Churachandpur: Residences of Manipur Health Min, MLA of Thanlon & MLA of Singhat set ablaze by anti ILPS villagers over allowing in passing the ILPS bill today.

7:37 pm: Whistle-blower bureaucrat Sanjiv Chaturvedi conferred with "The Ramon Magsaysay Award" in Manila, Philippines.

7:30 pm: Hurriyat has to understand everyone cannot be part of every discussion: Mehbooba Mufti on Indo-Pak NSA level talk cancelled.

7:24 pm: PM approved designation of RP Watal, IAS, the senior-most Secretary in Ministry of Finance, as Finance Secretary.

7:20 pm: Outgoing Home Secretary L C Goyal appointed as Chairman and Managing Director of India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO).

6:55 pm: Delhi Govt to setup NE India support cell & monitoring committee to address resolution of any kind of problem faced by NE community in Del.

6:45 pm: Petrol price cut by Rs 2 per litre, diesel by 50 paise with effect from today midnight.

6:00 pm: Dozen wounded in blast outside Ukraine parliament

5:30 pm: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi to visit Karnataka next week.

5:00 pm: The Karnataka Government has referred investigation into the murder of Professor M M Kalburgi to the CBI.

4:55 pm: Manish Sisodia given additional charge, becomes the New Law Minister in Delhi, replaces Kapil Mishra

4:50 pm: Mumbai Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria reaches Khar Police Station

4:30 pm: 26 new projects launched by Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav & Mulayam Singh Yadav.

4:00 pm: Law Commission recommends abolition of death penalty in all crimes except terrorism related offences & waging war.

3.45 pm: The youth claiming to be a member of the Bajrang Dal who had posted a warning message on twitter following the death of Professor M M Kalburgi has been arrested by the Buntwal police near Mangalore. Bhuvith Shetty had posted a warning on his twitter account after the death of the professor. However he later took down his twitter account.

3.37 pm: All 3 accused in Sheena Bora case sent for police custody till 5th Sep.

3:35 pm: Section 328 of IPC also added in the case of Sheena Bora for causing hurt to Mikhail Bora.

3.15 pm: The Swaabhimaan rally yesterday was a flop, Ram Vilas Paswan

3.00 pm: Sheena Bora murder case- all three accused brought to the court room.

2.47 pm: Indrani's driver Shyam Rai taken to court from Khar police station

2.27 pm: Colonel Pushpender Singh's 95-year-old mother Charu Sheela, who is having one meal a day in fight for OROP, hospitalised

2.08 pm: IED explodes in the tribal belt of northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border killing 1 and injuring 3 others

2.04 pm: NGT orders all roadside mixing plants be closed immediately in wake of rising air pollution in Delhi-NCR: Reports

1.02 pm: Senior IAS officer Rajiv Mehrishi appointed new Home Secretary: PMO

12.49 pm: Sheena Bora murder case: Indrani Mukerjea beaten by Police, lawyers likely to complain in Court.

12.40 pm: 14 people worked as team for years to compile this digital Ramcharitmanas-PM Modi

12.20 pm: Indrani's lawyers complain to Mumbai CP that police trying to take confessional statement of Indrani during remand & they are pressurising her

11.55 am: Funeral procession of slain writer MM Kalburgi in Dharwad (Karnataka).

11.49 am: The murder of Prof M M Kalburgi will be probed by the CID says Chie Minister of Karnataka Siddaramaiah.

11.27 am: The Supreme Court has rejected the plea of Shri Ram Sene Chief Pramod Muthalik to enter Goa.

10.53 am: Thai police issue arrest warrant for female suspect after raid finds bomb-making materials

8.47 am: People pay their last respects to renowned scholar MM Kalburgi in Dharwad, Karnataka

8.10 am: Mumbai Police traces Indrani Mukerjea's first husband Siddartha Das, team likely to leave for Kolkata

8.08 am: Heavy rains trigger flood like situation in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, water enters residential areas.

7.55 am: Call records show Indrani Mukerjea and Sanjeev Khanna were in Mumbai's Bandra on the day Sheena Bora was killed, say sources.

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