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A Singapore Airlines flight developed a hydraulic failure on the runway during landing at the Kolkata International airport last night, news agency PTI said. from NDTV News - Top-stories https://ift.tt/2HZBObX

Stormy Daniels, the real one, took on Donald Trump, depicted by Alec Baldwin, on comedy show Saturday Night Live and taunted him saying the only way for the furor over their alleged tryst to vanish... from NDTV News - Top-stories https://ift.tt/2HWHSBM

Senator John McCain, 81 and battling brain cancer, has made clear he does not want President Donald Trump to attend his funeral, US media reported Saturday. from NDTV News - Top-stories https://ift.tt/2roJNsJ

Making a shift in its political strategy, the BJP has given tickets to an overwhelming number of Muslim candidates in the upcoming rural polls in West Bengal with an aim to corner a large chunk of... from NDTV News - Top-stories https://ift.tt/2HVWrFR

North Korea said on Sunday its intention to denuclearise, unveiled at a historic inter-Korean summit, was not the result of US-led sanctions and pressure, warning the United States not to mislead... from NDTV News - Top-stories https://ift.tt/2rqlvOb

Saudi Arabia has detained thousands of people for up to a decade without trial, Human Rights Watch said Sunday, slamming the country's powerful crown prince for the "arbitrary detentions". from NDTV News - Top-stories https://ift.tt/2HU4FT5

Retail petroleum dealers have complained of receiving lower quantity of fuel from oil tankers which they say has risen sharply in step with surging fuel prices. from NDTV News - Top-stories https://ift.tt/2IgY7xg

Dalits need affirmative action and not token lunches with ministers, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah pointed out in a scathing tweet a week ahead of the bitterly fought assembly elections in the... from NDTV News - Top-stories https://ift.tt/2wgUhzd

The hotel owner charged with murder of a government official in Himachal Pradesh's Kasauli, after initial attempts to block the demolition team by threatening suicide, had deployed his workers too for... from NDTV News - Top-stories https://ift.tt/2JWEJTg

Catalan separatists, meeting in Berlin, vowed Saturday to attempt once again to get their leader-in-exile Carles Puigdemont reinstalled as president of the Spanish region while adding that they don't... from NDTV News - Top-stories https://ift.tt/2rtdPLl

A coalmine explosion on Saturday killed at least 16 labourers and injured several others in southwest Pakistan, with over a dozen still trapped, officials said. from NDTV News - Top-stories https://ift.tt/2KDPATh

The United States on Saturday scolded China for attempting to impose "political correctness" on American carriers by asking them to classify Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau as Chinese territories. from NDTV News - Top-stories https://ift.tt/2IhC6Ow

During a joint raid conducted by Anti-Rowdy Section (ARS) and Cyber PS officers of Kolkata Police today morning, 13 persons were arrested from eight different places where alleged illegal call centres... from NDTV News - Top-stories https://ift.tt/2rkOqEm

Four people, including two children, died in two fires in south and northwest Delhi, a fire department official said today. from NDTV News - Top-stories https://ift.tt/2HXcN0Y

A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker from Madhya Pradesh, who believes that "late marriages" are the reason behind "love jihad", a term used by right wing groups for a relationship between a Hindu... from NDTV News - Top-stories https://ift.tt/2jzzAW6

Showkat Ahmed Tak, a Lashkar commander considered among Kashmir's deadliest terrorists, was killed in the eight-hour-long gun battle between security forces and a group of terrorists holed up inside a... from NDTV News - Top-stories https://ift.tt/2HWmXPx

Legendary former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has undergone emergency surgery for a brain haemorrhage, his old club announced Saturday. from NDTV News - Top-stories https://ift.tt/2FMpXvK

Authorities of a town in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain district withdrew an order on Saturday that had asked functionaries of village panchayats to intimate the police about any weddings in Dalit families... from NDTV News - Top-stories https://ift.tt/2KDRinN

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday said he will strive to get work started on the Godavari inland waterways this year. He added that once the project is completed it will change the economy of... from NDTV News - Top-stories https://ift.tt/2JTO2mU

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday announced that he will act as guardian of a nine-year-old rape victim and bear all expenses of her education from NDTV News - Top-stories https://ift.tt/2FMF1tw