Thiruvananthapuram: A special CBI court here on Wednesday awarded capital punishment to two constables convicted in the 2005 custodial death of Udayakumar. Constables K Jithakumar and S V Sreekumar were awarded the death sentence while the other three accused, Former fort assistant commissioner T

New Delhi: The body of a newborn baby was found on an AirAsia flight to Delhi from Imphal via Guwahati on Wednesday, the police said. The baby appeared to have been delivered on board in the toilet and had toilet paper stuffed in its mouth. The mother appears to be an underage girl coming from

ALWAR: One of the policemen accused of taking three hours to take a critically wounded mob attack victim to hospital in Rajasthan's Alwar on Friday admitted today to the inexplicable delay and said, "I made a mistake". Assistant sub-inspector Mohan Singh has been suspended and two constable have

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday arrived in Rwanda on the first leg of his three-nation Africa tour as part of India’s outreach to the resource-rich continent, becoming the first Indian premier to visit the East African country. The Prime Minister’s aircraft landed at the Kigali Internation

Weeks after a report unearthed the rampant sexual abuse in the shelter homes of Bihar, a court ordered excavation is being carried out in one such institution to find the remains of a woman inmate. The woman is believed to have been killed and buried in the premises. The court ordered excavation

MUMBAI: Drawing a parallel between the FIFA World Cup final and the no-confidence motion, the Shiv Sena on Saturday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi might have emerged victorious like France, but Congress chief Rahul Gandhi won many hearts like runners-up Croatia. "In the football World Cup fina

JAIPUR: Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje will be the BJP's chief ministerial candidate in the upcoming assembly elections in the state, party president Amit Shah said on Saturday. "The assembly election will be contested under her leadership and she will again become the chief minister wi

NEW DELHI: Four BJP lawmakers have submitted a privilege notice against Congress President Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of "misleading" Parliament by making "false" allegations against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman BJP Members of Parliament Nishikant Dubey, An

The body of a 1968 Indian Air Force plane crash victim was found during a cleanliness drive organised by Indian Mountaineering Foundation, 50 years after the mishap occurred in Lahaul and Spiti Valley of Himachal Pradesh. The corpse was spotted by a member of the mountaineering team at the Chandr

NEW DELHI: After Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government defeated the Opposition's No-Confidence Motion in the Lok Sabha, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has said that "Bharatiya Janata Party has betrayed" the state yet again. Naidu, who will be travelling to New Delhi

A mob suspected a man to be a cow smuggler and beat him to death in Rajasthan’s Alwar district Friday midnight, days after the Supreme Court warned against “mobocracy” and “vigilantism”. Akbar Khan, who was in his thirties, belonged to Kol Gaon village in Ferozepur Jhirka tehsil of Mewat district

New Delhi: All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC) on Friday launched the first of its proposed three-part agitation at Parliament Street here, with hundreds of farmers marching and raising slogans against the minimum support price (MSP) offered by the government for their crops.

New Delhi: After tearing into the BJP-led government in his speech during the no-confidence motion on Friday, Congress President Rahul Gandhi walked across to the ruling benches and hugged Prime Minister Narendra Modi, taking everyone in the Lok Sabha by surprise. "I have not an iota of hatred or

At least 13 people were killed and sixteen injured when a bus of Uttarakhand Transport Corporation fell into a deep gorge near Suryadhar in Uttarakhand’s Tehri district on Thursday. The bus skidded off the Rishikesh-Gangotri Highway and fell into the 250-metre deep gorge. Around 30 people were tr

New Delhi: Criticising the proposed amendment to the RTI Bill that will render it "useless", Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday, July 19 slammed the BJP for believing only in keeping the truth hidden. "Every Indian has the right to know the truth. The BJP believes the truth must be hidde

SHIMLA: An Indian Air Force (IAF) MiG-21 fighter aircraft crashed in Patta Jattiyan in Jawali subdivision of Himachal Pradesh's Kangra district on Wednesday. The fighter pilot of the aircraft was killed in the crash. The aircraft had taken off from Punjab's Pathankot earlier in the day. A search

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled visit to Gujarat on July 20 had been cancelled following heavy rains in the coastal Saurashtra and southern Gujarat. The Prime Minister was scheduled to inaugurate several projects in Valsad, Junagadh and Gandhinagar but all events had been cancelled. “Pri

New Delhi: A six-year-old homeless girl was brutally raped by a 24-year-old man in central Delhi, a police official told news agency PTI today. The accused is also homeless and stayed on the same footpath as the minor girl. On July 14, the girl was allegedly kidnapped by the accused while she