New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) A court here on Thursday sent, to 14 days judicial custody, Jawaharlal Nehru University student Anmol Ratan who allegedly raped a 28-year-old Ph.D student. He was presented before a duty…
New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) Vinay Sharma, one of the four convicts in the December 16, 2012, gang-rape tried to commit suicide by hanging himself with a ‘gamcha’ from the ventilator of his cell in…
Patna/Bhopal, Aug 25 (IANS) The flood situation in Bihar remained grim on Thursday, though the river Ganga and its tributaries started showing sign of receding but hundreds of thousands of affected people have been still…
New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) A day after telling the Supreme Court he had not blamed the RSS as an organisation for Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination but only people linked to it, Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi…
Agartala, Aug 25 (IANS) Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar on Thursday said that people with “vested interests” were through rumors and social networking sites trying to whip up ethnic tension in Tripura in the wake…
Ranchi, Aug 25 (IANS) An ATM machine with Rs 7 lakh cash in it was stolen in Dhanbad district of Jharkhand on Thursday, police said. The police said the machine, stolen at Sijua Naya Mode…
Chandigarh, Aug 25 (IANS) With the Punjab Police having failed to nab the attackers of RSS leader Brigadier (retd) Jagdish Gagneja earlier this month, the state government, hinting at a foreign hand, asked the Central…
By Amiya Kumar Kushwaha New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) Observing that judges must not hesitate to “use the sword of justice with utmost severity” if the offences are grave in nature, a Delhi court dealing…
(160824) — AMATRICE, Aug. 24, 2016 (Xinhua) — Photo taken on Aug. 24, 2016 shows damaged houses after an earthquake in Amatrice, central Italy. The death toll in a strong earthquake in central Italy has…
Agartala, Aug 25 (IANS) Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar on Thursday said some vested interests are trying to take advantage of the prevailing situation in the state after the recent ethnic clashes by spreading rumours…
Canberra, Aug 25 (IANS) A 29-year-old man has been charged with murder as an alleged infatuation with a British woman emerged focus of a police investigation into her stabbing death at an Australian backpackers hostel….
Agartala, Aug 25 (IANS) Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said on Thursday that some vested interests are trying to take advantage of the prevailing situation in Tripura after the recent ethnic clashes, by spreading rumours…
Indore, Aug 25 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s younger brother Prahlad Modi has expressed displeasure over a police case filed against his friend, a dhaba owner, and met the Indore police chief in this regard….
New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) Hours after the suicide attempt by one of the convicts in the December 16, 2012 gang-rape case, the parents of the 23-year-old victim on Thursday said they wanted to see…
Beijing, Aug 25 (IANS) More than 500 sets of equipment for making unauthorised radio broadcasts were seized in China over the past six months in a national campaign aided by more than 30,000 airwave monitors,…
By Imran Khan Maner/Danapur (Bihar), Aug 25 (IANS) Coping with hunger and homelessness in flood-hit Bihar is a task in itself but for women, there is an additional embarrassing chore — relieving themselves in the…
Beijing, Aug 25 (IANS) Continuous rains in China caused substantial damage to prehistoric cliff paintings at Helan mountain in Ningxia Hui region. Some of the paintings have been damaged by mud and silt while others…
New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) Vinay Sharma, one of the four convicts in the December 16, 2012, Nirbhaya gang-rape, was being treated at a city hospital after he tried to commit suicide by hanging himself…
Agartala, Aug 25 (IANS) The Tripura government has ordered a magisterial probe into the ethnic violence here on August 23, an official said on Thursday. “A magisterial inquiry has been ordered by the state government…
Rome, Aug 25 (IANS) The death toll from the 6.2-magnitude earthquake that struck central Italy on Wednesday has risen to 247, according to Civil Protection Department officials on Thursday. More than 360 others were injured…