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Small plane makes emergency landing in Russia, 11 trapped (Reuters)

Six temples of different deities in Ram temple's final blueprint (PTI)

Siddaramaiah, Shivakumar to arrive for Karnataka assembly session in bullock carts (PTI)

Navjot Sidhu writes to Punjab CM, seeks action on farmers' demands

2 women campaign to become the first female president of France

The far-right National Rally party's Marine Le Pen and Paris' Socialist mayor, Anne Hidalgo (in picture), both launched their presidential platforms in widely expected moves. (AFP)

Ricciardo wins F1 Italian GP as Hamilton, Verstappen crash out (AFP)

Swiss bank to reveal data on real estate properties of Indians for first time (PTI)

Hamilton and Verstappen collide and crash out of Italian GP (Reuters)

Bhupendra Patel to take oath as Gujarat CM on Monday (PTI)

Lightning strike kills 14 in northwest Pakistan (AFP)

SC to hear on Monday pleas seeking independent probe into Pegasus snooping row (PTI)

‘Lemon village’ coming up in eastern Assam

The sour lemon is promising to be the sweet reason for economic success of a remote village on the eastern fringe of Assam’s Dibrugarh district. Nearly 70 kms away from Dibrugarh town, Cheleng Chuk is being developed as a model ‘lemon village’ to boost self-employment and per capita incomes, an official said on Sunday.

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AAP to contest all seats in UP assembly polls: Sanjay Singh

Need to instil ideals of Swami Vivekananda in today's youth: CJI Ramana

Priyanka Gandhi begins two-day Rae Bareli tour ahead of UP polls (PTI)

Arvind Kejriwal re-elected as AAP national convenor for third consecutive term (PTI)

Russians in Thiruvananthapuram cast their votes in elections of deputies to the State Duma of the Russia's Federal Assembly. Voting booth set up at Honorary Consulate of Russian Federation

UK Health Minister Javid says that they will not go ahead with vaccine passports

Vijay Rupani, who resigned as Gujarat Chief Minister yesterday, arrives at the BJP office in Gandhinagar to attend legislature party meet.

Anti Narcotics Cell of Thane Police arrested a 29-years-old man from Ghodbunder road area & seized MD drugs worth over Rs 1 lakh. Case lodged against the accused under NDPS Act. The court has sent to Police custody until 15th September

Aspirants arrive at NEET test centres

Student removing ear ring before entering to write NEET

NEET aspirants remove earrings before entering the exam

Sri Lanka announces squad for T20 World Cup

Sri Lanka on Sunday named the following squad for the Twenty20 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates and Oman in October-November.

Squad: Dasun Shanaka (captain), Dhananjaya De Silva, Kusal Janith Perera, Dinesh Chandimal, Avishka Fernando, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Charith Asalanka, Wanindu Hasaranga, Kamindu Mendis, Chamika Karunaratne, Nuwan Pradeep, Dushmantha Chameera, Praveen Jayawickrema, Lahiru Madushanka, Maheesh TheekshanaReserves: Lahiru Kumara, Binura Fernando, Akila Dananjaya, Pulina Tharanga

(Reuters)

NEET aspirants arrive at exam centre in Tamil Nadu

BJP Gujarat Legislative party meet to be held at 3 pm

Union Ministers Narendra Singh Tomar, Pralhad Joshi & BJP General Secretary Tarun Chugh will conduct the meeting to elect new chief minister

Unidentified body of a woman found in Netravathi river in Mangaluru; police investigation underway

Union Minister & BJP's central observer for Gujarat, Narendra Singh Tomar and party's National General Secretary, Tarun Chugh reach the residence of Gujarat BJP President CR Paatil

National Highway 305 blocked due to landslide at Shojha in Kullu district; Road restoration work underway

FBI releases newly declassified record on September 11 attacks

The FBI late Saturday released a newly declassified 16-page document related to logistical support provided to two of the Saudi hijackers in the run-up to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The document describes contacts the hijackers had with Saudi associates in the US but offers no evidence the Saudi government was complicit in the plot.

(AP)

Drone attack hits near US forces in northern Iraq, say officials

A drone attack hit near USforces stationed at Erbil International Airport in northern Iraq on Saturday, Iraqi Kurdish security officials said.

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