At least four soldiers were trapped in two separate incidents of snow avalanches near the Line of Control in north Kashmir, officials said on Wednesday. A snow avalanche hit an Army post in Tangdhar area of Kupwara district on Tuesday afternoon where at least two soldiers were trapped. Search

Puri: A woman was allegedly gang raped by two persons including a policeman inside a police quarter in Odisha's temple town of Puri on Monday. Police said the woman lodged a complaint saying a man, who identified himself as a police personnel, offered her a lift in his car while she was waiting at a

Indore: In a candid admission, former Lok Sabha speaker and ex-Indore BJP MP Sumitra Mahajan said she took the help of Congress leaders for issues concerning the development of her constituency in order to mount pressure on the then Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in the state. She went on to cl

Seventeen people were killed in Nadur village, Mettupalayam, on Sunday night after three tile roofed houses collapsed when a compound wall fell on them, triggered by rains. The Fire and Rescue services personnel with the assistance of locals and police retrieved the bodies from the debris and the

An army trooper who was home on leave allegedly killed his wife and sister-in-law before shooting himself in front of their two children in a moving car in Saidabad area near Patna on Sunday, police said. Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Paliganj, Manoj Kumar Pandey, said the soldier

The government on Sunday said it has appointed Soma Roy Burman, a 1986-batch Indian Civil Accounts Service Officer, as the new Controller General of Accounts (CGA). Ms. Burman is the 24th CGA and is the seventh woman to hold this position. “The government appointed Burman, as the Controller Ge

Kerala is likely to receive heavy rains in the next 48 hours. According to data from the Meteorological department, a low-pressure area that is forming in the equatorial Indian Ocean and Southwest Arabian Sea will cause the rains. The low pressure is likely to result in squally weather with wind

Protests broke out across Hyderabad and Telangana on Saturday in the wake of the brutal gangrape and murder of a 26-year-old vet on the outskirts of the city earlier this week. Four men have been arrested for the crime, police said on Friday. In Shamshabad, where the murder and rape occurred, a m

Sonebhadra (Uttar Pradesh): In yet another shocker from Uttar Pradesh, children at a government primary school were found be served highly diluted milk. One litre of milk was diluted with a bucket of water and served to 81 children. Gram Panchayat ward member Dev Patia made the allegations of poo

Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has been summoned by a Nagpur court for allegedly hiding information about two criminal cases against him in his election affidavit filed before 2014 Maharashtra assembly polls. The summon was delivered at Fadnavis’s house in Nagpur on the day a

Google sent out over 12,000 warning to users globally, including about 500 in India, during the three month period from July to September this year, alerting them on “government-backed” phishing attempts against them. The news comes close on the heels of Facebook-owned WhatsApp disclosing that an

BJP MP from Bhopal Pragya Singh Thakur is likely to be removed from the Parliamentary Committee on Defence after she called the man who murdered Mahatma Gandhi, Nathuram Godse, a ‘deshbhakt’ or a patriot in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. BJP working President JP Nadda told ANI that her statement was c

Former Congress Chief Rahul Gandhi and his sister and party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday visited former Finance Minister P Chidambaram in Tihar jail, party leaders said. Director General Tihar Sandeep Goyal confirmed to IANS their visit to Jail No 7, where Chidambaram has bee

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Wednesday launched its Earth imaging and mapping satellite CARTOSAT-3 along with 13 other nano-satellites from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota. The agency had planned for the launch of CARTOSAT-3 satellite, ninth in the series, from t

Muzaffarnagar: A 70-year-old Sikh man has donated a piece of land for a mosque in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district during the auspicious month of the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev. Sukhpal Singh Bedi, a social activist, made the announcement at an event in Purkazi town in the dist

NCP leader Ajit Pawar, who recently pulled a midnight stunner with the BJP and was appointed Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister, has been given a clean chit in the Rs 70,000 crore irrigation scam. Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) file of inquiry against Deputy CM Ajit Pawar in Vidarbha irr

Mumbai: Congress-NCP-Shiv Sena leaders on Monday, submitted a letter staking claim to the officials at Raj Bhavan to form the government in Maharashtra, saying that the present government doesn't have the numbers. Earlier, MLAs from the three parties -- Cong-Sena-NCP also submitted a letter suppo

The Supreme Court on Monday slammed the Punjab and Haryana governments for increase in stubble burning despite its order prohibiting it and said people in Delhi can’t be left to die due to air pollution. Expressing displeasure over the failure of States in preventing stubble burning, the court sa