AHMEDABAD: 10 activists of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, or VHP and its affiliate Bajrang Dal were detained today after they allegedly tried to chase away young couples who had gathered at the Sabarmati Riverfront in Ahmedabad today for Valentine's Day. VHP claimed it only asked the couples to leave

PATNA: The family of a paramilitary jawan who died fighting terrorists in Srinagar has refused to accept the compensation of Rs. 5 lakh offered by the Bihar government. 24-year-old Mujahid Khan of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was laid to rest in his native village of Piro in Bhojpur distr

From collecting ‘evidence’ to suggesting names of ‘suspects’ who may have kidnapped a seven-year-old missing boy, police said that Avadhesh Sakya worked “intelligently” to keep the needle of suspicion away from him. Sakya, 27, was arrested from his home in north Delhi’s Nathupura on Tuesday morni

Six men belonging to the right-wing Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) have been arrested for allegedly attacking noted Malayalam poet K Sreekumar on Monday night. Sreekumar was allegedly attacked by the RSS workers when he was returning home after delivering a speech at a public function in Keral

NEW DELHI: A law cannot be declared unconstitutional just because it could be misused, a Supreme Court judge said on Tuesday during the hearing in the crucial Aadhaar case. The five-judge constitution bench had heard senior lawyer Kapil Sibal outline how the 12-digit biometric data-based Unique Iden

SRINAGAR: India has lodged a strong protest with the Pakistani foreign office a day after four soldiers, including a Captain, were killed in shelling by Pakistani troops in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district. Home Minister Rajnath Singh also condemned the firing by Pakistan. "Have full faith in th

NEW DELHI: The father of Ankit Saxena, the 23-year-old photographer killed in Delhi by his Muslim girlfriend's family, says that the murder should not be given a communal twist and exploited to whip up trouble. Through a haze of grief at losing his only son, Yashpal Saxena pleaded for sanity. "I

BENGALURU: Hitting back at Narendra Modi for his all-out attack on his Congress government, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday accused him of telling a "tissue of lies" and said he was "morally not fit" to be prime minister. "He did not speak as prime minister. He has uttered a tissu

The mystery surrounding the death of CBI Special Judge Brijgopal Harkishan Loya—who at the time of his death was hearing the sensitive Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case in which BJP president Amit Shah was an accused—has taken yet another dark turn. Judge Loya allegedly died of cardiac arrest i

minor, who was on the run, was today apprehended in connection with the mysterious death of a Class 9 student in northeast Delhi's Karawal Nagar, police said today. Tusshar (16) was found unconscious by some students in his school bathroom and was taken to a hospital on February 1. He was later r

In a shocking development, the CBI has arrested a Goods and Services Tax commissioner from Kanpur and eight others, including three officials, for allegedly running a bribery racket in the department, news agency PTI reported. Quoting the agency sources, the report said the officials used to collect

Traffic came to a grinding halt on Kolkata's Eastern Metropolitan Bypass on Saturday morning after angry locals clashed with the police. The incident took place soon after a speeding bus killed two youth at the busy Chingrighata intersection. Atleast five buses and several two wheelers were se

NEW DELHI: Three students of a private school in Khajuri Khas were apprehended on Friday in connection with the murder of a 16-year-old at the school's toilet. Police said the victim, Tushar, had tried to stop a fight between two groups due to which one of them harboured ill-feeling towards him a

Three minors were detained on Friday in connection with the mysterious death of a Class 9 student in a Karawal Nagar school in East Delhi on Thursday, PTI has reported. Police are on the lookout for one more student, a senior police officer said. Sixteen-year-old Tushar, a Class IX student, was r

The Supreme Court on Friday referred matters related to the bull-taming sport Jallikattu to a Constitution bench. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice R F Nariman framed five questions to be adjudicated on by the Constitution bench. “We have formulated five questions for the Constitution

Over 1,200 graduates from premier institutions like IITs and NITs have been selected to teach in 53 state-run engineering colleges in backward areas across 11 states and Union Territories for three years, Union minister Prakash Javadekar said on Wednesday. “This is the first time such a measure h

NEW DELHI: A senior Indian Air Force officer has been taken into custody after he was accused of passing on classified information to a woman he had reportedly befriended on Facebook. Sources told NDTV that the woman was likely to have been a spy who appeared to have honey-trapped the Group Captain-

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court and high court judges have got a nearly two-fold salary hike with President Ram Nath Kovind giving nod to a bill passed by Parliament in this regard. The Chief Justice of India will now get a monthly salary of Rs 2.80 lakh, up from the present Rs one lakh. Similarly,