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Digest for domestic stories for week Aug 12 - Aug 18, 2017

Saturday New Delhi: An Indian Army team has crashed out of international 'Tank Biathlon' held in Russia after its main battle tank T-90 developed technical snag.

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Saturday

New Delhi: An Indian Army team has crashed out of international 'Tank Biathlon' held in Russia after its main battle tank T-90 developed technical snag.

Srinagar: Two army men were killed and three others, including a captain, injured in an encounter with militants in Shopian district of south Kashmir, the police said tonight.

Jammu: Union minister Jitendra Singh today played down the heightened rhetoric by Beijing over the Dokalam standoff, stating that India was fully equipped to face any challenge.

Sunday

Shimla: A massive landslide buried two Himachal Pradesh roadways buses, killing at least 46 people and injuring several others at Kotpuri near Padhar on the Mandi Pathankot national highway today, officials said.

Lucknow: The UP Congress today termed the infant deaths in a Gorakhpur hospital "murder" and demanded resignation of Chief Minister, saying if he was unable to handle an institution, how will he run the state, prompting rebuttal from Yogi Adityanath and the state health minister.

New Delhi: Terrorists in the Kashmir Valley are now on the run and they cannot continue to terrorise the people for decades, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley said today, maintaining that the government's priority was to clean up the Kashmir Valley of armed militants.

Monday

Dehradun: Six persons were killed and 10 others, including six Army jawans, were reported to be missing in two incidents of cloudbursts in the Dharchula sub-division of Pithoragarh district in the early hours today.

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Deputy Prime Minister of Turkmenistan Rashid O Meredov today reviewed the entire gamut of bilateral relationship and decided to give a fresh push to boost two-way trade and investment.

New Delhi: In the backdrop of rising cross border terror activities in Kashmir and standoff with China in Dokalam, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley today called upon the armed forces to defend the country's borders with "all its might".

Tuesday

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today said India would grant medical visa to Pakistani nationals in genuine pending cases.

Leh/New Delhi: Indian border guards today frustrated an attempt by Chinese soldiers to enter Indian territory along the banks of famous Pangong lake in Ladakh resulting in stone pelting that caused minor injuries to people on both sides, officials said.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today reached out to strife-hit Kashmiris, saying abuses and bullets will not resolve their problems but embracing them will, as he praised his government's economic reforms in a wide-ranging Independence Day speech.

Wednesday

New Delhi: Vice Admiral K B Singh will be the new Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Eastern Naval Command, official sources said today.

New Delhi: Twenty-five passengers of the Mumbai-Delhi August Kranti Rajdhani Express were robbed of valuables worth Rs 10-15 lakh in the early hours today, apparently near Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh.

Gorakhpur (UP): Five more encephalitis-related child deaths were reported from the Baba Raghav Das Medical College hospital since yesterday, taking to 71, the number of persons who have died here of the disease since August 7, officials said today.

Thursday

New Delhi: A choked Delhi High Court parking today led to a situation where emergency and quick response vehicles of security agencies could not enter the premises after the police received an anonymous bomb threat call, which later turned out to be a hoax.

New Delhi: The Congress and the BJP were today engaged in a war of words over Rahul Gandhi's remarks made at an opposition meet, with the BJP alleging it was "hypocrisy" to talk about "composite culture" while remaining silent over killings of RSS workers in Kerala.

New Delhi: There is no report of any Indian casualty in the Barcelona terror attack, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said who is in constant touch with Indian embassy in Spain.

Friday

New Delhi: Russian President Vladimir Putin today appointed career diplomat Nikolay Kudashev as Russia's new ambassador to India, the country's embassy here said.

Dehradun: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today alleged that some divisive forces were out to destroy the country's diverse social fabric and should be fought unitedly.

New Delhi: India said today it will continue to engage with China to find a mutually acceptable solution to the Dokalam standoff, but underlined that incidents like one in Ladakh three days ago were not in the "interest of either side".

 

(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)

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