SURAT: An eight-year-old girl was mauled to death by a leopard on Wednesday at Vadi village in Umarpada tehsil of Surat district, a Forest Department official said. Nikita Vasava was attacked by the big cat at around 7 am when she was out to attend to nature's call, Deputy Conservator of Forest (

Rahul Gandhi and top Congress leaders were on Wednesday detained twice as a high-voltage political drama unfolded following the alleged suicide by a former soldier over OROP, prompting the party vice president to demand an apology from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “The least this government can

Hyderabad (Telangana) [India]: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “polarising voters” in the name of triple talaq and construction of Ram temple to ensure that the Bharatiya Janata Party wins the upcoming Uttar Pra

New Delhi: A man today called up Delhi Police Control Room threatening to kill Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. However, it later turned out to be a hoax call and the caller identified was termed by police as “drunkard” and “mentally unsound”. “A call was received around 6.16 pm at the police c

New Delhi: The National Adivasi Parishad have come out in open to oppose the government initiative on Uniform Civil Code. Condemning the move, Prem Kumar Gedam National Coordinator, Rashtriya Adivasi Ekta Parishad, said tribal communities have their own distinct cultural identity and customs and

Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh) [India]: Aligarh Muslim University professor Dr D. Murthy, who was undergoing treatment at the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College here, breathed his last yesterday as the authorities failed to arrange an ambulance in time to shift him to New Delhi. Professor Murthy, who was

Mysuru: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) leader J. Jayalalithaa is said to be on the road to recovering from her illness at the Apollo Hospital in Chennai, and in anticipation of her coming out of the medical facility soon, special prayers were held at Mysuru`s Chamundeshwari Temple

Jammu: BSF jawan Gurnam Singh, who was injured in Friday’s attack by Pakistani forces at the international border in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, succumbed to his injuries on Saturday night. 26-year-old Singh, who was undergoing treatment at the Government Medical College and Hospital he

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Mohan Prakash accused the Narendra Modi government of “highlighting” the surgical strikes conducted by the Army across the LoC, to “divert” peoples attention from its “failure”. “The Modi government has failed on all fronts. From attacks to rising inflation. Ther

Gandhinagar: India should celebrate diversity and must not artificially try to convert it into “uniformity”, President Pranab Mukherjee said here today. Observing that the country’s economy is growing at very fast pace, Mukherjee said it was not an accident or an achievement of one or two years.

Bhopal [India]: Asserting that there was no dispute over Ayodhya being Lord Ram’s birth place, Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti on Monday said that the actual disagreement was over the ownership of the land and assured that it would be sorted soon without any hassles. “The issue is not i

New Delhi: A prominent Muslim leader and three time Rajya Sabha MP, Obaidullah Khan Azmi, joined Congress party at its national headquarter in Delhi on Sunday. His entry into the party will be a boost to the party in an election, where Muslim votes are likely to be crucial. While Congress on

Mumbai: Scholars and clergymen from different Muslim sects, under the banner of All India Muslim Majlise-e-Mushawarat, on Sunday registered their protest against the Law Commission’s consultation on triple talaq and the Uniform Civil Code (UCC). Recently, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (

A senior doctor at Agra's SN Medical College has been caught on tape allegedly telling his junior colleague, who refused to admit a TB patient dying of a bleeding stomach ulcer, that he could "kill the man, make it so difficult that he leaves on his own, but just admit him". The patient, 18-year-

Late on Wednesday night, the Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) arrested two Pakistani ISI agents from border town of Khavda in Kutch district. Identified as Mohammad Alana and Safur Sumara, ATS is learnt to have recovered several incriminating documents pertaining to the movements of Indian army a

Security personnel have been trading gunfire with militants, holed up inside a hostel complex in Pampore which was the scene of an earlier gunbattle in February this year, since Monday morning. At least one soldier has been injured in the exchanges. Officers said they suspect two or three militan

Mumbai: Escalating its opposition to Pakistani actors, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) today threatened to “beat up” film makers Karan Johar and Mahesh Bhatt if they work with or release films featuring artistes from the neighbouring country. The threat was given by the film wing of Raj Thac

Mayawati said PM Modi “has set a record of foreign trips but is still unable to clearly spell out the foreign policy because of which the borders of the country are not fully secure."  MAKING A strong pitch for Muslim support in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections next year, BSP chief Maya