Patna(PTI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday asserted that there was "no need" for an anti-conversion law in the state where the government was "alert" and members of different religious communities lived in peace. He gave the statement when asked by journalists about the need for s

New Delhi, June 6: People can now book 24 train tickets in a month on the IRCTC website and app if their user ID is linked to Aadhaar, otherwise only 12 tickets can be bought, the Railways announced on Monday. So far, the Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) allowed people to

Budaun (UP), Jun 5: Five police personnel and two unidentified people have been booked here for allegedly torturing a man in custody. Rehan (20) was held by police on suspicion of theft when he was returning home from work. He was given electric shocks and the accused inserted a wooden stick in h

Srinagar(PTI): Three soldiers were injured in a blast inside their private hired vehicle in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, police said. The nature of the blast is being investigated, Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, Vijay Kumar said. "A #blast took place inside a priva

Nuh (Haryana), Jun 1: Three people, including an eight-year-old boy, died in a septic tank in this district, police said on Wednesday. The incident took place in Bichhor village in Punhana block on Tuesday, they said. After the boy fell into the tank accidentally while playing near it, the boy

Banihal (J&K), May 23: A baby girl who was declared dead in a hospital here soon after her birth on Monday was found to be alive when her family was forced to dig up her grave nearly an hour after she was buried, officials said. Locals in the area objected to her burial in their graveyard and

Panaji(PTI): The Goa Police have arrested a man from his home town in neighbouring Karnataka for allegedly raping a 12-year-old Russian girl at a resort in Arambol in North Goa, where he worked as a room attendant, an official said on Thursday. The accused, Ravi Lamani (28), a married man, was ar

Dahod (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of creating two Indias, one for the rich and another for the poor, and claimed that the resources of the country are being given to a few wealthy people. Launching his party's campaign for this year's Gujara

Sambhal (UP)(PTI): A man was held for allegedly making objectionable comments against Prime Minister Narendra Modi on social media, police said on Tuesday. Irfan Hussain of Darani village in Kudh Fatehgarh area was arrested following a complaint by BJP workers, Superintendent of Police Chakresh M

Berhampur, May 6: The headmistress of a high school in Odisha's Ganjam district has been suspended after a video of some students dancing in a classroom to a song of Telugu blockbuster 'Pushpa' went viral on social media, an official said. Several Class 10 students assembled in the smart classroo

Panaji, May 6: Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Friday said the BJP did not want the complete disappearance of the Congress as there is need for an opposition. Speaking at Goa Fest 2022, the Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas also said the Narendra Modi government is "not completely

Solapur (PTI): Union minister Ramdas Athawale on Thursday slammed MNS chief Raj Thackeray over his call for removal of loudspeakers from mosques, and said the MNS leader will not get any political benefit from his "hard stand" on the issue. Addressing a press conference here, the Republican Party

New Delhi, May 5: After sending missions to the Moon and Mars, ISRO is now readying a spacecraft to orbit Venus to study what lies below the surface of the hottest planet in the solar system and also unravel the mysteries under the sulfuric acid clouds enveloping it. Addressing a day-long meeting

New Delhi (PTI): The Centre Wednesday asked eight eminent artistes, who were allotted government accommodations years ago but which were cancelled in 2014, to vacate the facilities by May 2, a move that comes a day after eviction proceedings were conducted against 90-year-old Padma Shri awardee and

Thanjavur, Apr 27 (PT) As many as 11 persons were electrocuted during a temple chariot procession in the district when it came into contact with a high tension transmission line, police said Wednesday. The deceased included children. The tragic incident occurred early today at nearby Kalimedu

Gorakhpur (UP) (PTI): Unidentified men killed a man, his wife and their 20-year-old daughter by slitting their throats with sharp-edged weapons here on Monday, police said. One of the accused has been arrested in connection with the incident, they said. The deceased have been identified as Gama N

Aurangabad, Apr 25: A businessman in Maharashtra's Parli Vaijanath tied his electric scooter to a donkey with a rope and paraded it around the town as a mark of protest against its manufacture for not fixing the fault in the two-wheeler after it stopped working just 15 days post delivery. Feeling

Mumbai(PTI): The Mumbai Police have shifted independent MP Navneet Rana to the Byculla women's jail here, while her MLA husband Ravi Rana was taken to Taloja jail in neighbouring Navi Mumbai amid tight security, an official said on Monday. The couple was arrested on Saturday after they gave a cal