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Ranjana Saikia, the head of TERI's Internal Complaints Committee who headed the three-member panel which found its former Director General RK Pachauri guilty of sexual harassment of a junior colleague, has resigned.

Ms. Saikia confirmed to PTI that she has resigned but did not give any reason for taking the step.

The Energy and Resources Institute too remained tightlipped about it. "Yes, it is true that I have resigned," Ms. Saikia told PTI over phone. "No," she said, when asked whether she had cited any reason for tendering her resignation.

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On Thursday, the then investigating officer of Pen tehsil claimed that when the skeletal remains of Sheena Bora were discovered in a Riagad forest three years ago, he was told by his superintendent not file an FIR.

According to Inspector Subhash Mirge, it was RD Shinde, superintendent of police of Raigad district, who stopped him from filing a case when the skeletal remains were found in May 2012.

Pen tehsil falls under Raigad district jurisdiction.

A departmental inquiry was ordered when lapses were found that the Pen police station failed to file an FIR when the remains were found. Mirge's statement was a part of this inquiry.

The death toll in Delhi due to dengue has risen to 15, media reports on Thursday, 17 September, stated. A 41-year-old woman from Delhi's Lajpat Nagar area passed away due to the disease on Thursday, while a seven-year-old boy from the city succumbed to it as well. The municipality bodies, however, maintained that not more than 5 people have been killed due to the disease till now. Data released by the three civic corporations - North, South and East Delhi Municipal Corporations - on 14 September said that till 12 September, the number of deaths due to dengue in the city was five, and the number of cases was 1,872.

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Due to evacuation alerts, a total of one million people left their homes in Chile after the powerful earthquake measuring 8.3 magnitude hit the country's central region, BBC reports.

At least 10 people lost their lives when the quake hit at at 7:54 pm local time (22:54 GMT).

A tsunami alert was issued for the entire coastline of Chile but was lifted later. However, tsunami waves about half a metre high did hit the coast when the quake occurred, north and south of the quake's epicentre.

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Prime Minsiter Narendra Modi will be touring his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, today. During his one-day visit, Modi is expected to address a public meeting and interact with Shiksha Mitras (contractual teachers). The teachers are angry over the cancellation of regularisation of their services by a judgement from Allahabad High Court.

While in Varanasi, he is likely to inaugurate a BHU trauma centre, launch the Integrated Power Development Scheme (it intends to provide 24*7 electricity all over India) and lay the foundation stone for a project to build a ring road in the city.

After assuming the post of prime minister, Modi has visited his constituency twice; the last visit was on December 2015.

Terrorist attack at an army-run school in Peshawar, 2014. File photo: AFP

Militants attacked a Pakistan Air Force camp in the north-western city of Peshawar, early Friday (18 September). A group of seven to 10 militants attacked a guard post and tried to force their way into the Badaber air base, Major General Asim Bajwa said on Twitter.

Pakistani security forces launched a counter attack on the sudden ambush. According to reports, six militants have been gunned down. The gun battle is still underway. According to Pakistani media, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Peshawar has been the target of several terror attacks. This attack comes after a lull of seven months. In February this year, three heavily armed Taliban militants killed 21 people after taking seize of a Shia mosque. In one of the worst attacks, in 2014, militants massacred more than 150 people, most of them children at an Army-run school.

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In a historic move, the West Bengal government has declassified 64 documents related to Subash Chandra Bose. The files have been handed over to Bose's family members. The documents could answer questions about the freedom fighter's mysterious death.

The files containing 12722 pages have been digitised and kept for public viewing at the Indian museum archive. General public will be able to access the files from 21 September. Netaji's grand nephew Chandra Bose congratulated the West Bengal government, while criticising the central government for not releasing the documents with it.

An Indian fisherman was killed after the Pakistan Navy opened fire on his boat off the Gujarat coast, near Dwarka.

As per media reports, Pakistan Navy fired on the Indian fishing boat 'Ramraj' which was in the sea along with another boat 'Premraj'. The firing lead to the death of boat master Bhatti Iqbal Abdul, who is said to be a native of Okha.

The vessels are now reportedly being towed away by the Indian coastguard. Details are still awaited on the exact location of the encounter as the sequence of events that led to Iqbal's death are yet unclear.