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Cottage industries in Bijnor, from brush makers to handloom and glass, have been battling the onslaught of cheap Chinese alternatives. Now the currency crisis has dealt a massive blow to them, with over 75% of these industries on the verge of shutting down.

BAHRAICH: Corporators, belonging to opposition parties, went berserk at a meeting convened by Bahraich Nagar Palika chairman to review ongoing development projects. They damaged the palika property and threatened to set ablaze the office if their demands were not accepted by the chairman.

Various academies without chairpersons or members now face another problem. If earlier, the government delayed appointments to the academies.

Traffic came to a standstill for about five hours on Saturday due to road-block by relatives and supporters of Ismail Khan, who was brutally killed.

MUMBAI: A member of Dawood Ibrahim's criminal gang, Shahajed Hussain Rahmat Hussain alias Kaloo Kanpurai, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a session court on the charge of looting a jewellery shop at Byculla in central Mumbai and murdering the jeweller.

The temple is maintained by Muslims, who clean it daily, whitewash it every Diwali and protect it from squatters and stray animals. The solitary temple was left behind by its Hindu households sometime in the early 1990s, post the Babri Masjid demolition.

A team of city crime branch arrested a 35-year-old woman for abducting an eight-month-old boy from footpath outside Akhandanand Ayurvedic College five days back.

Environmentalists of Kolar are up in arms against the district administration’s decision to allow quarrying for production of M-sand in Devarayasamudra hillocks. A PIL has been filed in Karnataka high court against the move.

Police claim three to four Naxals have been killed in this encounter, though the bodies could not be recovered.