Self-styled godman Rampal and 14 others were sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday, in connection with the murder of four women and a child in 2014. A local court in Chandigarh had convicted them under Sections 302 (murder), 343 (wrongful confinement) and 120 B (conspiracy) of the Indian Penal C

Claiming that the name change would affect the history in which Allahabad has played a significant role since the days of Independence, Congress spokesperson Onkar Singh said that the region where Kumbh takes place is already called Prayagraj and if the government is so eager, they can make it a sep

Lucknow: Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani, who reached Lucknow on Sunday evening, was shown black flags by the Congress members to protest the attacks on Hindi-speaking migrants in Gujarat. Accompanied by a 14-member delegation, Rupani is in Lucknow to attend a programme with UP chief minister

Thiruvananthapuram: Thousands of Lord Ayyappa devotees. including women, on Saturday took to the streets in Kochi against the implementation of the Supreme Court verdict allowing women of all age groups into Sabarimala temple. The Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF)

The wife of Gurugram’s Additional District and Sessions Judge, who along with her teenage son was shot at by their Personal Security Officer (PSO), succumbed to her injuries late on Saturday night. The mother-son duo had gone for shopping on October 13 afternoon when the PSO shot at them from point-

A police officer died in a shootout with gangsters in Bihar's Khagaria district on Friday. Ashish Kumar, the Station House Officer of Pasraha died on the spot, while another policeman was injured. Ashish Kumar, 32, was leading his team late last night during an encounter with the dreaded Dinesh M

In a shocking case of robbery, a cashier of Corporation Bank was shot dead in New Delhi’s Dwarka today. The incident took place at a branch of Corporation Bank in Chhawla area in southwest Delhi. Three persons were injured after four unidentified assailants opened fire at them and looted the cash

Hurtling down the Trichy airport runway at 250 kilometres per hour, an Air India Express Boeing 737-800 struck poles at the end of the runway, rammed into the perimeter wall but still managed to fly. Miraculously, none of the 136 passengers and crew onboard IX 611, an Air India flight bound for D

CHENNAI: Shankar Devarajan, Founder of the Shankar IAS Academy, which has produced hundreds of civil servants during the last 15 years, committed suicide on Friday. Police sources said Shankar was found hanging from the ceiling of the fan at his Mylapore residence. He was rushed to Government

Srinagar: Two Hizbul Mujahideen militants, including PhD scholar-turned-terrorist Manan Bashir Wani, were killed on Thursday during an encounter with security forces at Handwara in frontier district of north Kashmir, officials said. The encounter broke out in the early hours at Satgund in Handwar

At least eight people were killed and lakhs were left without power on Thursday as Cyclone Titli hit Andhra Pradesh and Odisha destroying huts, uprooting trees, snapping electric and telephone poles, officials said. “We fear 6,000-7,000 electricity poles may have been uprooted. Around 4,00,000 to

Seven people were killed and about 20 others injured after five coaches of Delhi-bound MLDT NDLS Express derailed near Harchandpur area of Rae Bareli district in Uttar Pradesh early on Wednesday, officials said. Divisional railway manager Satish Kumar confirmed the death toll and said about 25 we

Cyclone Titli intensified into a very severe cyclonic storm over the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday and is moving towards the Odisha coast, triggering rainfall in several parts of the eastern state, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The weather office said the cyclonic storm is likely t

An engineer working at the BrahMos Aerospace Private Limited in Maharashtra's Nagpur was arrested on Monday on charges of spying for Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI and other countries, sources say. Nishant Agrawal has worked in the technical research section of the missile centre for four yea

Nine people were killed and 18 others were injured in a gas pipeline blast in Bhilai steel plant in Chhattisgarh's Durg district. The blast took place in a pipeline near coke oven section of the plant in Bhilai town, which is around 30 km from the state capital Raipur, a police official told PTI.

At least 20 girls of a government residential school in Supaul district were beaten up, allegedly by a mob comprising some local youths and their parents, who barged into the school on Saturday evening after the girls reportedly complained against the youths. At least 10 girls had to be admitted

The Delhi High Court Monday allowed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to file a closure report in the missing case of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Najeeb Ahmed, who mysteriously disappeared in October in 2016. The Bench of Justices S Muralidhar and Vinod Goel allowed the Najeeb’

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi had a narrow escape from a freak fire that broke out during a rally in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. The Congress chief had held an 8 km roadshow yesterday in the state, where assembly elections will be held on November 28. A video from the spot showed the sudden blaze as