Lucknow: Taking cognisance of a case of torture of a 14-year-old boy in the police custody, the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Kalanidhi Naithani had suspended three police officers. The incident happened in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow district. Following the release of the medical reports of

Hyderabad: A forest officer who was leading preparations for a tree plantation drive in Telangana was left bleeding and injured after she was attacked violently on Sunday morning by a ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti party leader, his followers and some local villagers. She has been hospitalised afte

Construction of 2.51 lakh more houses in 10 States under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) (Urban) was sanctioned on Friday, taking the total number of houses approved under the scheme since it started in 2015 to 83.62 lakh, Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry said in a statement. At a m

Pune: At least 15 people died while three others sustained injuries after a portion of a wall collapsed near Talab Masjid in Kondhwa area of Pune on Saturday. Speaking to ANI, an official from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) said the wall collapsed due to heavy downpour in the city.

Osaka: US President Donald Trump Saturday praised Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, saying he was doing a "spectacular job" as the pair met on the sidelines of the G20 summit. "You have done a spectacular job," Trump told the powerful crown prince, referring to him as "a friend of mi

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s latest diktat, asking all government officers to reach their offices by 9 a.m. is causing considerable resentment in the bureaucracy, particularly among officers posted in the districts. The Chief Minister, in his order, has said that all officers sh

New Delhi: Several leaders of the Congress have resigned from their posts to give Rahul Gandhi a free hand to choose a new team in the wake of the Lok Sabha election disaster although he is adamant on giving up the presidency. Hours after Vivek Tankha quit as the party's Chairman for Law and RTI ce

New Delhi: Centre on Thursday rejected Delhi government's proposal to make commuting in the city's Metro free for women. The Centre is learnt to have told Aam Aadmi Party's government in Delhi to look at alternate ways to ensure women's safety and access to transport network - reasons that had be

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Thursday upheld the constitutional validity of the reservation awarded to the Maratha community in government jobs and education, but said the quota percentage should be reduced from 16% to 12% to 13% as recommended by the State Backward Classes Commission (SEBC).

An Air India passenger plane flying to the United States was escorted by British fighter jets to land in London on Thursday after a bomb threat. Air India said flight AI 191 from Mumbai to Newark had made a precautionary landing at London Stansted Airport “due to bomb threat.” Britain scramble

Kerala was ranked the best in the country in terms of health performance, according to health index scores in a report by NITI Aayog. Kerala had an overall score of 74.01, with Andhra Pradesh coming second at 65.13. The states are broadly grouped into three: larger and smaller states and union terri

New Delhi: The central government on Wednesday appointed Arvind Kumar, a 1984 batch IPS officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre, as the new director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), while Samant Goel of the Punjab cadre was appointed chief of India’s external spy agency, Research and Analysis Wing (R&a

Kolkata: The Special Task Force of Kolkata Police has arrested four members of banned terror outfit Neo-JMB (Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh), including three Bangladeshi nationals from Kolkata, an officer said on Tuesday. Based on prior information, the STF officers arrested two Bangladeshi Nation

A small outlet selling steaming and spicy ‘kachoris’ - a popular snack in Uttar Pradesh - in a narrow lane of Aligarh has come under the lens of commercial tax department. Reason: The outlet’s owner Mukesh Kumar has a whopping annual turnover of around Rs 60-70 lakh but does not pay any tax. D

RANCHI: Twenty-two-year-old Tabrez Ansari on Sunday succumbed to his injuries in a hospital, a week after he was brutally thrashed by a mob at Dhatkidih village in Seraikela district over suspicion of stealing a bike. Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das has ordered a probe by a Special Investigati

MUMBAI: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Deputy Governor Viral Acharya on Monday told Mint he has quit his role, six months before the end of his tenure. "I have decided to leave six months early due to unavoidable personal reasons. So much to finish in the last month! I am sticking to my school teach

The kingpins of Bike Bot scheme duped 2.25 lakh investors of around ₹1,500 crore and diverted ₹650 crore to different accounts, before two of them were held by police earlier in June. The accused bought luxury cars, including Jaguar, Audi and Range Rover, from the money, police said, adding that fiv

Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking to increase the strength of judges and raise the retirement age of high court judges to 65 years. Gogoi has also urged the Prime Minister to make tenure appointments of retired apex court judges and high court