Delhi Police on Monday filed charges in the death of Sunanda Pushkar and named her widower Shashi Tharoor, a Congress member of Parliament, as one of the accused. The charges were filed in the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Dharmender Singh under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections of husband or h

GUNTUR, ANDHRA PRADESH: It was a regular day for this 14-year-old girl when she fell unconscious at her home in Andhra Pradesh. Her family took her for a medical check-up, but the doctors at the hospital were shocked to find her at least three months pregnant. After repeated questioning, the girl fi

In a first, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) conducted separate exams for six students of class 10 and 12 this year as they were representing the country in international sports championships during the regular schedule. Four of these six students, including Commonwealth Games hero

In a bizarre and utterly shocking incident, a 13-year-old boy was married to a 23-year-old lady, amid all the relatives, villagers and band bajaa baraat. The two tied the knot in April in Upparahal village of Andhra Pradesh's Kurnool district. However, the incident came in light just this week.

Violent clashes between two groups have left one person dead besides injuring more than 25 persons in Aurangabad district. The violence, said to be of a communal nature, apparently erupted over a trivial matter and raged through Friday night with several small shops and a number of vehicles, incl

INDORE: A 23-day trial ended in a death sentence for a man who raped and killed a four-month-old girl in Madhya Pradesh last month. The Indore session court today convicted Naveen Gadke of rape and murder of an infant and handed him a death sentence under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences

The Supreme Court Collegium today agreed in principle to reiterate the recommendation for elevation of Uttarakhand High Court Chief Justice K M Joseph as a judge of the apex court, after his name was returned by the Centre. Justice Joseph had headed the bench in the Uttarakhand High Court that ha

The Jharkhand High Court today granted six-week provisional bail to former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad on medical ground after hearing all t he three fodder scam cases in which he is convicted. The bail, granted by Justice Apresh Kumar Singh, would be effective from the day he is released fr

Himanshu Roy, a top Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and a former chief the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad, committed suicide today. Roy, who was serving as the Additional Director General of Police in Maharashtra, shot himself with his service revolver at his residence in south Mumbai betwe

A Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist, who was recently arrested by Baramulla police following the killing of three civilians on April 30, has said that the Army could have killed him, but instead, armymen saved his life. In a confessional video, recorded in police custody, LeT terrorist Aijaz Gujri

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s nephew was arrested by the Delhi's Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) in in north-west Delhi on Thursday. According to sources in the anti-graft body, the accused, identified as Vinay Bansal, was placed under arrest for his involvement in the scam relating to the constr

Indian Army chief General Bipin Rawat has said the youth in Kashmir must not get “carried away unnecessarily” and understand “azadi” is not possible as the security forces will always fight those who want to secede, the Indian Express said on Thursday. Gen Rawat told the Indian Express in an inte

MUMBAI: The Shiv Sena on Wednesday told Prime Minister Narendra Modi "not to ridicule" Congress President Rahul Gandhi who announced his name for the country's top post if his party is voted to power in 2019. In a sharp reaction to PM Modi's criticism of Mr Gandhi and terming his statement "sheer

A poster with ‘Maharana Pratap Marg’ written on it was on Wednesday found pasted on an Akbar Road signboard in Lutyens’ Delhi, with the police later removing it. The road on which residences of several Union ministers, BJP chief Amit Shah as well and the Congress office are situated, falls under

NEW DELHI:  Justice Jasti Chelameswar, the second most senior judge in the Supreme Court, has refused an invite to his farewell by the top court's bar association. The 65-year-old retires on June 22. Office bearers of the Supreme Court Bar Association met the judge at his home today for an hour b

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Wednesday said that some people in the central government have the same arrogance as the Mughals had and are not allowing the AAP dispensation to work. Invoking Maharana Pratap on his birth anniversary, Sisodia said the Delhi government was working to

A 28-year-old woman from Shahjahanpur has accused a BJP legislator and his son of raping her in 2011, drawing parallels with the Unnao case and putting the ruling party on the defensive yet again. The woman staged a protest in front of the Shahjahanpur collectorate on Monday to demand the immedia

A 30-year-old gym owner was stabbed to death by a DJ — after his friend had a scuffle with the accused over playing a Punjabi song at a bar in west Delhi’s Punjabi Bagh on Sunday night. A 23-year-old woman was injured as a piece of a broken glass hit her during the scuffle. The incident, recorded on