Cargo vessel MV Mani Crashes into the Howrah bridge in high tide, its wheelhouse gets stuck under the bridge deck. Cost of repairs: Rs 1.5 cr.
The OIC drops Hurriyat hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani, invites the moderate Mirwaiz Umer Farooq for its foreign ministers’ meet in Yemen.
SA arms manufacturer Denel admits to Payoffs in the anti-materiel guns sale to India. The Virgin Islands-based Varas Associates got Rs 20 crore, says a CBI FIR.
Customer loyalty gets rewards. Wards of "regular tipplers" get Free schoolbags, education material from the Kerala Bar Hotels Association in Kochi.
The Madras Crocodile Bank Trust gifts 40 muggers (marsh crocodiles)—32 females, eight males—to Bangladesh. The country had only one croc left.
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