A National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Kochi sentenced Yasmeen Mohammad Zahid, a native of Bihar, to seven years of rigorous imprisonment for her involvement in the recruitment of 15 persons from the state’s Kasaragod district into the Islamic State terrorist group. Before the verdict, 30

The Delhi Police on Saturday tendered their “deepest apologies” for the alleged harassment of two media personnel yesterday when police resorted to baton charge on protesting students of JNU, IANS reported. The two journalists were allegedly attacked by Delhi Police personnel when they were covering

In a shocking development reported from the state of Kerala, a young woman was stabbed to death just days ahead of her marriage. The woman, identified as Athira, was only 22-years-old and was about to get married soon. However, what makes the entire incident grim is that the accused who allegedly st

MEERUT: In a shocking video that has gone viral, a man is seen thrashing his 25-year-old wife mercilessly after a panchayat verdict allowed him to do so. The incident according to police occurred in Longa village of Syana region of Bulandshahr on March 10, but the video became viral only on Thursday

The Delhi High Court on Friday quashed the notification issued by President Ram Nath Kovind to disqualify 20 Aam Admi Party (AAP) MLAs following such a recommendation by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in the wake of the charge that they were holding office of profit as parliamentary secretar

NEW DELHI: Aadhaar data has been secured by a 2048-encryption key that will take a supercomputer more than the age of universe, or over 13 billion years, to crack, Ajay Bhushan Pandey, the chief of UIDAI which runs the identification programme, told the Supreme Court today. Mr Pandey, who made an 80

Indian Technomac Company Limited director Vinay Kumar Sharma was finally arrested on Wednesday after four years of investigation into an alleged Rs 6,000-crore fraud. Sharma was produced before a local court, which remanded him to three-day police (CID) custody. The accused is the son of IAS office

NEW DELHI: The HRD Ministry has sought a report from Ahlcon Public School regarding the alleged suicide by a class 9 student whose parents are claiming that she was "sexually harassed" by two teachers. Parents of the 15-year-old, accompanied by other parents staged a protest outside the school in

Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha member Shashi Tharoor has called all cricket lovers to assemble at the Martyrs Column here in the state capital to take part in a candlelight protest on Saturday against the decision of the Kerala Cricket Association (KCA) to shift the November 1 ODI from here to Kochi.

NOTING THAT there were “instances of abuse” of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, by “vested interests” for political or personal reasons, the Supreme Court on Tuesday laid down stringent safeguards, including provision for anticipatory bail and a “pr

PANAJI: Goa Congress President Shantaram Naik today resigned from his post, saying he was "inspired" by Rahul Gandhi's speech at the party plenary about making way for younger leaders. Shantaram Naik, 71, is the first senior Congress leader to resign after Rahul Gandhi announced on Sunday in his

All 39 Indians who went missing in the war-torn Iraqi city of Mosul in 2014 are dead, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj informed Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. Making a suo motu statement in Hindi, Ms. Swaraj said a team of Indian and Iraqi officials found the bodies from a mass grave in Badush an

NEW DELHI: Two appeals challenging the acquittal of Rajesh and Nupur Talwar -- accused of murdering their teen daughter and domestic help Hemraj Banjade -- will be heard by the Supreme Court. The dentist couple had walked out of Ghaziabad's Dasna jail last October after they were acquitted by the Al

Former Bihar chief minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Lalu Prasad was on Monday found guilty in the fourth fodder scam case by a special CBI court in Ranchi. Prasad had already been convicted in three fodder cases. Here are details of the fodder scam cases against Lalu Prasad: The fodder

Kottayam: A Kerala legislator's son on Saturday lodged a complaint with police against Nisha Jose, wife of Kerala Congress (M) MP Jose K Mani, who alleged in her recent book that a senior politician's son misbehaved with her during a train journey. Although Nisha did not reveal the man's identity

HYDERABAD: Drivers of cab aggregators Uber and Ola in Hyderabad will join the nationwide indefinite strike from Saturday midnight. The drivers have put forth a set of six demands that have to be met by the taxi aggregators. The drivers of Hyderabad will be joined by drivers from Mumbai, New Delhi, B

Putting an end to the debate as to whether sharing of aadhaar card number is a deal big enough to raise your eyebrow, the UIDAI clarifies that it isn't. The UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) has advised people not to get carried away or confused with some news appearing in social on A

Launching a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, UPA Chairperson and former Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday said that his pre-poll promises of combating corruption and ensuring inclusive development were “only dramebazi’ and a trick to gra