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Top stories on 9 May in a capsule

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9 People killed, 4 Injured in UP thunderstorm A thunderstorm lashed parts of western Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday, killing nine people and injuring four others a week after a freak weather system had battered the region. Four people died in Etawah district, three in Mathura and one in Agra in mishaps related to Wednesday evening's thunderstorm, Principal Secretary Information Avanish Awasthi told reporters .  Awasthi said the district magistrates have been asked to distribute relief among the storm-hit people immediately or latest by tomorrow morning.Thunderstorms and lightning on May 2-3 had killed at least 134 people and injured more than 400 in five states, the Home Ministry said Fake voter IDs found a planned work to 'induce' voters: EC The Election Commission on Wednesday said that the material found from a flat in Rajarajeshwari Nagar, in Bengaluru might have been a 'planned work over a period of time to survey and locate vulnerable electors and in...

Top stories on 21 November in a capsule

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HEADLINES Zimbabwe President resigns after 37 years of reign  After finally succumbing to military power, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe resigned on Tuesday evening. The announcement came minutes into a joint session of the Zimbabwean Parliament in Harare, convened to prise the 93-year-old from power. He defied demands to step down for almost a week after a military takeover and expulsion from his own ruling ZANU-PF party, but submitted his resignation soon after the Parliament started his impeachment process. Crowds cheered as a picture of Mugabe - hung in most public business premises - was taken down in the country's capital, Harare.  ____________________ Tripura journalist shot dead after argument with policeman In another case of attack on media people in Tripura, journalist Sudip Datta Bhowmik was killed in an altercation with a police constable, on Tuesday. Bhownik, working for Bengali daily Synadan Patrika, was covering a story in the Tripur...