The big news: India raises import duties on nearly 30 US products, and nine other top stories

Other headlines: All-party meet in Jammu and Kashmir likely on Friday, and the Centre banned new offshoots of the al-Qaeda and the Islamic State.

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· 16 minutes ago

UP Police apologise for photo of personnel escorting people dragging a lynching victim in Hapur

The police tweeted that all three of its men in the picture had been transferred.

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· an hour ago

Bailout or not, the sugar industry’s boom-bust cycle will continue to crush Indian farmers

State governments set procurement prices for cane. But these have much more to do with keeping farmers happy than with market reality.

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Will Arvind Subramanian ever tell us what he actually feels about demonetisation?

The departing chief economic advisor has chosen not to say anything about the note ban decision. But his silence speaks volumes.

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Video: How safe are your bank deposits?

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After police officer’s daughter assaults constable, Kerala may finally end Raj-era orderly system

The chief minister said they have already begun the process to dismantle the system, which lets senior police officials use constables as house help.

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Centre will consider NCRB’s proposal to allow police limited access to Aadhaar: Union minister

National Crime Records Bureau Director Ish Kumar said that allowing the police to access the biometric database would help them catch first-time offenders.

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· Yesterday · 10:45 pm

Punjab: AAP MLA allegedly attacked by sand mafia, Opposition asks CM Amarinder Singh to step down

Amarjit Singh Sandoa was admitted to a hospital in Chandigarh after he was attacked near Nurpur Bedi in Ropar district.

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· Yesterday · 10:20 pm

CBI court sentences former Jharkhand minister Dulal Bhuiyan to five years in jail

He had assets worth Rs 1.03 crore that were disproportionate to his known sources of income.

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· Yesterday · 09:36 pm

Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan accepts five YSR Congress MPs’ resignations

They had quit in April to protest the Centre’s refusal to provide special category status to Andhra Pradesh.

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· Yesterday · 08:59 pm

The big news: J&K governor calls all-party meeting in Srinagar on Friday, and nine other top stories

Other headlines: India raised import duties on several United States products, and the Centre said new cases from Panama Papers leak were being investigated.

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· Yesterday · 08:44 pm

Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma files defamation suit against Hindi news channel

ABP News aired a report that said the state’s finance minister had close ties with middleman Delhi ‘power broker’ Anuj Poddar.

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· Yesterday · 08:42 pm