As part of a campaign to reduce underage driving, parents of 10 teenagers have been sentenced to a day in prison for letting their minor children drive in the Indian city of Hyderabad. According to the BBC, the parents who were jailed said that they were unaware of a rule which says they would be

The Navi Mumbai police on Saturday denied that a refrigerator had been recovered during investigations into the disappearance and murder of assistant police inspector Ashwini Bidre-Gore, a day after reports appeared in some sections of media that the fridge in which her body was cut and stored had b

Meerut: A 57-year-old Uttar Pradesh policeman is being hailed for his grit and dedication to his duty after he put a stranger man’s life over his own daughter’s death. Head constable Bhupendra Tomar was on his usual duty with his team at 9 am on February 23 when they received a call about a man who

New Delhi: A man in his mid-twenties was stabbed at least 50 times and beaten with rods by a group of men on motorcycles in south Delhi's Khanpur area on Thursday evening.  The brazen attack was caught on camera.  A complaint has been filed against unknown men, police said. Around 4 pm on Thursda

NEW DELHI: Eight months after the Doklam standoff, junior Defence Minister Subhash Bhamre today said the situation along India's border with China is "sensitive" and had the potential to "escalate". "At the Line of Actual Control, the situation is sensitive as incidents of patrolling, transgressi

A 35-year-old Surat trader from Sarthana area committed suicide on Wednesday by jumping off his 12-storey building along with his wife and four-year-old son. The deceased was a textile trader from Surat city in Gujarat and took this extreme step because of a financial crunch. The police have recover

BENGALURU: The BJP today brought out a Bengaluru-specific 'charge sheet' against the ruling Congress in Karnataka and announced the launch of 'protect Bengaluru yatra' from tomorrow. Releasing the booklet carrying the "failures" of the Congress government, Union minister Prakash Javadekar said Be

Serial killer and rapist M Jaishankar, known as the dreaded 'Psycho Shankar', allegedly committed suicide by slitting his throat with a shaving blade at the Parappana Agrahara jail in Bengaluru. Kannada movie 'Psycho Shankra', released last year, was based on the life of the notorious killer Jais

After 71 Transfers in 34 Years, Haryana IAS Officer Retires Without 6 Months' Pay Haryana IAS officer Pradeep Kasni retires on Wednesday. (Image: News18) Known for his honesty, IAS officer Pradeep Kasni is retiring on Wednesday after a career spanning 34 years and 71 transfers. Kasni has not receiv

Gujarat assembly speaker Rajendra Trivedi on Wednesday suspended around 15 Congress MLAs for a day after they sat in the well and shouted slogans against the ruling BJP over VAT being charged on fuel by the state government. Besides these, another Congress MLA was suspended for two days by the Sp

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramaniam Swamy on Tuesday opined that veteran actress Sridevi was murdered, even as the forensic report rules out any kind of foul play in her death. Swamy also pointed a finger at the underworld terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, saying that we should take serio

Most investors have priced in Prime Minister Narendra Modi winning a second term in the 2019 elections. A change in expectations through this year could derail a rally that’s almost doubled the nation’s equity values since Modi took office four years ago. UBS Securities India Pvt. says, the optim

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday continued his tirade against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in poll-bound Karnataka and said Nirav Modi, Lalit Modi and Vijay Mallya managed to flee the country and the PM, who once described himself as the “chowkidar” of the nation, did not utter a word. “

NEW DELHI:  After the Rs. 11,400 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam involving celebrity designer Nirav Modi and his Mehul Choksi, another alleged banking fraud of nearly Rs. 390 crore linked to the government-run Oriental Bank of Commerce has surfaced, this time by a Delhi-based diamond jewellery

An officer of the Gujarat Police on Saturday claimed the Central Bureau of Investigation had framed him in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh alleged fake encounter case. A special CBI court had discharged Rajkumar Pandian (pictured above) in the case in 2016. The officer has an “unimpeachable” record, and w

The vehicle that killed nine schoolchildren (six girls and three boys) in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district on Saturday belonged to a BJP leader from Sitamarhi, police officials said. The BJP leader, Manoj Baitha, was reportedly inside the Bolero when the accident took place on NH 77 and escaped along wi

Controversial Islamic preacher from Kerala Meleveettil Muhammed Akbar, founder-director of Niche of Truth, was arrested from Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport on Sunday in a case related to promoting enmity among communities in Kerala. Akbar, who was en route to Qatar from Melbourne, wa

Itanagar, Feb 24 (PTI) A mysterious object with Chinese writing on it has been found in Kamle district of Arunchal Pradesh, about 100 km inside the Indian territory, police said today. A few villagers stumbled upon a partly burnt white box, wrapped in a cloth-like material with Chinese writing on