Lucknow: A 30-year old IPS officer, who had reportedly consumed some poisonous substance, died on Sunday at a nursing home in Kanpur after battling for life for four days. Surendra Kumar Das, an officer of the 2014 batch, was posted as Superintendent of Police (East) in the city. A "suicide" n

Uttar Pradesh minister Mukut Bihari Verma sparked a controversy on Saturday with his comments that the Ram temple will be built in Ayodhya because “the Supreme Court is ours”. “Mandir hamara aradhya hai .. mandir banega .. mandir bananey ki liye hum log sankalpbadh hai (Temple is our resolve. It

Three men were beaten to death by a mob on Friday which caught hold of them while they were trying to kidnap an 11-year-old girl from inside her school in Bihar’s Begusarai district, 140 kms east of the state capital, police said. Police said that they were allegedly beaten up by the school stude

Amit Shah will continue to be the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) till the end of the much-awaited 2019 Lok Sabha polls, highly-placed sources said on Saturday. Shah’s tenure was set to end in January, but the BJP in its national executive meeting decided that he should continue unt

While movies and books have always made us believe that superheroes come with a fancy costume and a cape, that’s not the case in reality. Heroes are made up of a heart of gold, the bravery of a lion and trust me, they are normal people like us. And sometimes, they do not think twice before sacrif

Nagpur: A former Maharashtra minister allegedly announced a reward on Thursday for anyone who "cuts off the tongue" of BJP MLA Ram Kadam, whose "would abduct the girl a boy has liked" statement has triggered a huge controversy. In a video of an event at Buldhana in eastern Maharashtra, Subodh Sao

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat Congress Thursday announced that it would observe a 24-hour fast on Friday in support of Patidar leader Hardik Patel if the state government did not begin talks with him. Mr Patel's fast, which started on August 25 at his farmhouse near Ahmedabad, entered its 13th day Thurs

General category and OBC members in Madhya Pradesh have called for a Bharat bandh in protest against the Parliament passing an amendment to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act that overrode a Supreme Court order diluting it. Some of the upper-caste protesters

Wrestler Divya Kakran, who won a bronze in the recently held 18th Asian Games in Jakarta, on Wednesday lashed out at the Delhi government for not extending any help to her before the games. “Nobody helps us when we need it and had I got assistance, I could have even won a gold medal,” she said at

Sacked Indian Police Service officer Sanjiv Bhatt was arrested on Wednesday by police in Gujarat in connection with the arrest of a man for allegedly possessing drugs 22 years ago, officials said. The crime investigation department of Gujarat police arrested Bhatt following a probe ordered into t

New Delhi: Three people died and at least 26 went missing after a boat carrying 40 people capsized in Brahmaputra near Guwahati on Wednesday. The boat was carrying passengers towards north Guwahati, it sank just about 200 metres away from the bank. Two of the deceased are college students from no

Ahmedabad: As doctors expressed concern over the health of Hardik Patel, the Gujarat government Tuesday stepped up its efforts to persuade the Patidar leader to end his indefinite hunger strike which entered the eleventh day. Hardik had launched his fast on August 25 for demands, including farm l

The Amboli police on Monday found the decomposed body of a 22-year-old in a hotel room in Jogeshwari. The deceased was later identified as Jaideep Swain, a student of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Powai. Swain was pursuing his Masters in technology (MTech) at the computer science depar

A retired policeman was assaulted with sticks by three men on a street in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad until he lay motionless, bleeding, one arm almost mutilated. For seemingly interminable moments, no one on the road stopped to help 70-year-old Abdul Samad Khan, who died in hospital. The savage at

In the Bhima Koregaon violence case, the police was given an extension of 90 days to file chargesheet against arrested activists Surendra Gadling, Shoma Sen, Mahesh Raut, Sudhir Dhawale and Rona Wilson. The activists - arrested in June -- have been accused of being directly responsible for the viole

Hitting back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks on loans given during the UPA rule, former Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Sunday asked the NDA government to reveal the number of loans given by it which turned into non-performing assets (NPA). In a series of tweets, the senior Cong

New Delhi: A 27-year-old woman allegedly strangulated her seven-month-old daughter in southeast Delhi's Hazrat Nizammudin as she believed that the baby was responsible for her family's hardships, the police said on Saturday. The incident took place on August 20 and the accused has been identified

The UP Subordinate Service Selection Commission (UPSSSC) recruitment examination scheduled for Sunday morning was postponed after authorities received information that the question paper was leaked. The UP Special Task Force (STF) arrested 11 people, including a primary school teacher suspected t