Raipur/Rajnandgaon (Chhattisgarh), May 5 (IANS) Over 100 shops were gutted in a massive fire that broke out on Friday morning in Maa Bamleshwari Temple in Dongargarh of Rajnandgaon district in Chhattisgarh, police said. The shops…
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) A child rights’ group said on Friday that it prevented 26 child marriages in Jharkhand in just one week. Most of the children who were to be married were between…
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the death sentences of all four convicts in the fatal 2012 gang rape of Nirbhaya in a moving bus, a “rarest of rare” crime…
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Political and rights activists on Friday called for a mass movement against the West Bengal government’s “repression” to suppress a campaign against land acquisition and sought the scrapping of a…
Chennai, May 5 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday said it has provisionally attached properties worth Rs 33.74 crore of businessman J.Shekhar Reddy and his associates under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA)….
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Friday voiced her happiness after the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of all convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape case. “I am…
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Timeline of the Nirbhaya gang-rape case in which the Supreme Court on Friday upheld the death sentences of the four convicts. December 16, 2012: A 23-year-old paramedic student and her…
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) As the Supreme Court upheld on Friday the death sentence to four accused in the Nirbhaya gang-rape case, the bereaved father said that all convicts should be hanged as soon…
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Jaihind welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision in the brutal December 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape case and said it will send a “strong message”…
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Soon after the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence for all four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape case, defence lawyer A.P. Singh said he will file a review petition…
Hyderabad, May 5 (IANS) AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday questioned the “double standards” in awarding death penalty to rapists, especially when it came to communal riots. Reacting to a Bombay High Court judgment upholding…
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Calling it a “rarest of rare” case, the Supreme Court on Friday upheld the death sentence on all four convicts in the brutal Nirbhaya gang-rape here of 2012 that led…
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced ex-gratia of Rs two lakh for the kin of each of those killed in an accident in Uttar Pradesh . The funds would…
Chennai, May 5 (IANS) Kannada television actress Rekha Sindhu died in a road accident on Friday near Vellore in Tamil Nadu, police said. The accident happened on the Chennai-Bengaluru highway around 2.30 a.m., a police…
Lucknow, May 5 (IANS) The toll in the Etah road accident in Uttar Pradesh early Friday morning has risen to 14 with the death of the four persons who were critically injured, police said. The…
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the death sentence on all four convicts in the December 2012 Delhi gang-rape.
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the death sentence on all four convicts in the December 2012 Delhi gang-rape. Mukesh, Pawan, Vinay Sharma and Akshay Thakur were convicted on charges…
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) The government on Friday announced draft rules for a national no-fly list that proposes a flying ban from three months to two years or beyond for unruly passengers on domestic…
Imphal, May 5 (IANS) Suspected tribal militants on Friday abducted three tribals in Manipur and gunned down two of them, police said. The third man is missing. These are the first such killings in the…
Hyderabad, May 5 (IANS) The wife of a techie, who had recently returned from the United States, committed suicide in her flat in Puppalaguda here, police said on Friday. Rashmi Sharma (39) hanged herself in…