40 dead in Kolkata inferno
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t least 40 people are reported to have died after a fire engulfed the AMRI hospital in the southern part of Kolkata early this morning. Fire engines fought the blaze for five hours before bringing it under control.
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woman found in bag
Vijayalakshmi case adjourned
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dvocates representing YS Vijayalakshmi, wife of the late YS Rajasekhara Reddy, refused to argue the case filed by her against former CM N Chandrababu Naidu and several others before the bench presided over by Justice V Eswaraiah.
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esidents of the busy Yousufguda area woke up to find the dead body of a woman stuffed in a
bag. The unidentified woman‘s body was found by the police stuffed in a plastic sack near an electric transformer in Lakshminarasimha Nagar. The police said the woman’s throat was slit. According to Sudarshan, inspector of Banjara Hills police station, the woman might have been killed last night somewhere else and the same body then dumped behind the bus-stop in Lakshminarasimha Nagar. The body has been moved to the morgue at Gandhi Hospital, where a post-mortem will be conducted.
‘TTD has become a club’
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ridandi Ramanuja Chinna Jeeyar Swamy has sparked controversy after claiming that Tirumala Tirupathi devasthanam has become a ‘club’. “If one goes to Tirupathi it gives a feeling
as if he is in an elite club,” the Swamy said during a religious discourse at Vijayanagaram. He also claimed the government and temple administration were turning the temple into a
money-spinning tourist centre, violating the purity and sanctity of a great holy place of worship. The BJP spokesperson from Tirupathi, Bhanu Prakash, has demanded the Swamy withdraw his comments.
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