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A 28-year-old businessman died during a dental procedure at a clinic in Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad. The FMS International Dental Clinic has been booked for negligence. The victim's father suspects a possible drug overdose. The clinic staff claimed that the victim fell unconscious during the procedure and was pronounced dead upon arrival at a nearby hospital.

Water found unfit for consumption; corporation collects samples from all private plants, begins repairs of public pipelines

Yemen's Houthi rebels attacked a Belize-flagged ship in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. US military conducted airstrikes targeting the rebels and their underwater drone. Another ship came under attack in the Gulf of Aden. Houthis claimed to have shot down an MQ-9 drone near Yemen's port city of Hodeida.

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee had alleged that the BJP-led Centre ‘deactivated’ Aadhaar cards of people in the State ahead of Lok Sabha polls to stop them from getting benefits of various social welfare schemes

Ajay Yadav, a research scholar working with his professor, Damian Robinson, both from Oxford's School of Archaeology, were the lead archaeologists in this discovery. They said architectural details at the new site bear striking resemblance to Dholavira. The site, formally identified in Jan, has been named Morodharo (a Gujarati word for less salty and potable water).

CBDT said that such small tax demands that were outstanding as on Jan 31, 2024 raised under the I-T Act and also under the erstwhile Wealth Tax and Gift Tax Acts, shall be remitted and extinguished subject to the ceiling of Rs 1 lakh for a taxpayer. Taxpayers can check the status of the demands by logging on to the I-T portal.

Supreme Court refused PIL for a CBI/SIT probe into Sandeshkhali violence, asking the petitioner to approach Calcutta HC. The petitioner compared incidents to Manipur, but the court advised against it. Missing entities: Supreme Court's statement on comparison, Calcutta HC's role in transferring the case to CBI, Bengal government's response, HC's cognizance and arrests update.

PM Modi highlighted welfare measures as 'real social justice' and 'real secularism'. He urged tourists to spend 10% of their travel budget on local products. CM Adityanath stated that UP had transformed into 'Udyam Pradesh', focusing on value addition in core sectors.

The visit assumes significance as it comes just ahead of the Lok Sabha elections

Last Friday, the Bihar CM had given the order to probe the irregularities in the department headed by RJD leaders; Singh alleges irregularities in implementation of the road maps