JAMMU AND KASHMIR: Outrage has spread across Jammu and Kashmir over the rape of a three-year-old in Sumbal area of Bandipore district last week. The accused, who has been arrested, has claimed that he is a minor. Protests by students, political parties and the civil society have spread across the Ka

Gangtok: Nearly 300 yaks have died due to starvation following heavy snowfall in North Sikkim district since late last year, an official has said. The North Sikkim District Magistrate Raj Yadav confirmed the death of around 300 yaks due to starvation during heavy snowfall in Mukuthang and Yumthan

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear on May 17 the Centre’s plea challenging the Delhi High Court’s verdict which quashed cadre allocation of IAS and IPS officers of the 2018 batch. The matter was mentioned for urgent listing before a bench comprising Justices Indira Banerjee and Sanjiv Kha

Attorney general KK Venugopal, the Centre’s top legal officer, said on Friday that he wrote to the top five Supreme Court (SC) judges, including Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi, seeking the constitution of a special panel comprising former judges of the top court, to examine allegations of

A BJP activist was arrested on Friday in West Bengal for allegedly sharing a morphed photo of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on social media. The activist, Priyanka Sharma, is accused of sharing on her Facebook timeline a photo in which Mamata Banerjee's face has been photoshopped on the form of ac

The first AH-64E Apache attack helicopter built for India was formally handed over to the Indian Air Force (IAF) at Boeing production facility in Mesa, Arizona in USA on Saturday. The first batch of these helicopters is scheduled to be shipped to India by July this year. “Selected aircrew and

Bhubaneswar: The New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express caught fire near Khantapada station in Odisha's Balasore district. As per emerging reports, the fire broke out in the generator car, the last coach of the train. It was immediately detached from the remaining coaches to stop the flames from

The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the petition of former Border Security Force constable Tej Bahadur Yadav against the Election Commission’s decision to bar him from the Lok Sabha polls from Varanasi constituency, Bar & Bench reported. Yadav’s lawyer Prashant Bhushan had told the court that

Cyberabad police on Thursday conducted searches at the office and residence of Associated Broadcasting Company Pvt Ltd (ABCPL) Chief Executive Officer V Ravi Prakash and a few others, following a complaint of “forging documents and preventing the company’s promoters from taking over its operations”.

At least five labourers were killed early on Thursday after a fire broke out in a clothes godown in Uruli Devachi village of Maharashtra’s Pune district, reports said. According to news agency ANI, four fire tenders have been rushed to the spot and the fire is under control now. Injured have been

After two years of arduous attempts, a Kota-based engineer received Rs 33 as refund from the Indian Railways which charged him the amount as service tax despite him cancelling the ticket prior to the implementation of GST. The ticket was booked in April 2017, before the implementation of the Good

A day after the Supreme Court’s in-house panel dismissed the sexual harassment case against Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, the complainant in the case has sought a copy of the report filed by the committee that found “no substance” in her allegations. ‘"I have a right to know how, why and o

The Telangana government on Tuesday sent 1,000 employees of its Electricity Department to Odisha to help in restoration of power supply in areas affected by cyclone Fani. This followed a request by Odisha government for help as Fani which hit Odisha coast near Puri last Friday uprooted electricity p

New Delhi: Over 200 Delhi University teachers have issued a public statement condemning Prime Minister Narendra Modi for making "derogatory and untrue" remarks about former PM Rajiv Gandhi. Their statement came after Modi in a rally on Saturday targeted Congress president Rahul Gandhi on the Rafa

New Delhi: Several activists and lawyers protested outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday, a day after a three-member in-house inquiry panel formed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi to probe the sexual harassment charges against him gave him a clean chit. About 30 women were detained during the demonst

Ahmednagar: A woman and her husband were set ablaze allegedly by her father and relatives in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district as they were opposed to the couple's marriage, police said on Monday. While the woman died of burn injuries at a Pune hospital on Sunday, the man is battling for life wit

CBSE Class 12 results 2019: A glass cabinet filled with trophies won by Sana Niyaz adorns a pink wall of a small room the 17-year-old shares with her four sisters and mother in their Old Delhi home. The family has yet another reason to be proud — Sana, a student of an Urdu medium girls government sc

Retired Lieutenant General DS Hooda, who oversaw the “surgical strikes” across the Line of Control in 2016, on Saturday said cross-border operations have been conducted in the past too, PTI reported. Hooda denounced political parties using the operations for political mileage. He was the Northern Ar