Aurangabad (Maharashtra), May 13 (IANS) An expelled All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) municipal corporator, Syed Mateen Sayed Rasheed, has been booked in a second rape case within four months, officials said on Monday. Mateen, 33,…
Bhubaneswar, May 13 (IANS) The death toll in the cyclone Fani has now been put at 64. Puri district, which was the worst hit after the cyclone made landfall on May 3, accounted for 39…
New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) What happens when you bring the fox to guard the henhouse? By structuring a convoluted and intricate matrix of entities – three of them actually – to obfuscate and throw…
New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) In connection with its ongoing probe into the Axis Bank demonetised currency case, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday said that it has attached movable and immovable properties worth Rs…
Ranchi, May 13 (IANS) A newly wed woman escaped with her lover while on way to her husband’s home and later surrendered before the police, here on Monday. According to the police, Bandhan Oraon, a…
Tehran, May 13 (IANS) Iran has sentenced its national to 10 years in prison for spying for the UK, the state media reported on Monday. Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said on state television that the…
Dehradun, May 13 (IANS) Come summers, and forest fires have started raging in Uttarakhand, officials said on Monday. According to data provided by the Forest Department, nearly 1,000 hectare of forests have been affected this…
Jaipur, May 13 (IANS) Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of playing politics on the Alwar gang-rape and using the issue as a political tool to draw mileage in…
Srinagar, May 13 (IANS) Forty-seven security personnel were injured in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district when stone pelting mobs went on the rampage following the rape of a three-year-old in Bandipora. At least one officer…
Srinagar, May 13 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik on Monday sought exemplary punishment to whoever raped a minor in Bandipora district as widespread protests rocked the Kashmir Valley, shutting down businesses and…
Mumbai, May 13 (IANS) Weeks after voting for the Lok Sabha elections and with months to go for the Assembly elections, Maharashtra’s ruling and opposition politicians have started taking stock of the drought stituation, billed…
Mumbai, May 13 (IANS) Mumbai was shocked by two sickening acts of a policeman and another person allegedly flashing their private parts before two women over the weekend, police said. In the first instance, a…
Stockholm, May 13 (IANS) Swedish prosecutors on Monday reopened investigation into the rape allegation against WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, currently lodged at a high-security jail in the UK. Sweden’s Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Eva-Marie…
New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) BJP Yuva Morcha leader Priyanka Sharma on Monday moved the Supreme Court against her arrest last week for allegedly sharing on social media a meme of West Bengal Chief Minister…
Moradabad (Uttar Pradesh), May 13 (IANS) Six members of the family, including two children, were killed when a tractor trolley they were travelling in overturned here, police said. Police officer Deepak Kumar said the group…
Bhubaneswar, May 13 (IANS) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to sanction 5 lakh pucca houses for the cyclone-affected people in the state. In a letter to the Prime…
Srinagar, May 13 (IANS) Protesta erupted at scores of places in the Kashmir Valley on Monday as outrage over the rape of a minor in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipora district. Markets were closed in Bandipora,…
Chandigarh, May 13 (IANS) A polling agent was arrested for interfering with the voting process in a booth in Haryana’s Faridabad. “Prompt action taken. FIR (first information report) lodged. Person behind bars. Observer enquired the…
Gurdaspur (Punjab), May 13 (IANS) It was a close shave for actor-turned politician Sunny Deol on Monday, when one of the tyres of the sport utility vehicle he was travelling in burst on the Amritsar-Gurdaspur…
Srinagar, May 13 (IANS) A partial showdown against the alleged rape of a three-year-old girl affected normal life in many parts of the Kashmir Valley on Monday, police said. The shutdown was called by the…