At least 40 people have been killed after a bus fell into a gorge in Uttarakhand’s Pauri district, the police said. The incident occurred near Gween village in the district when the overloaded private bus, on its way to Ramnagar, fell into the 200-metre-deep gorge, Pauri Superintendent of Police

New Delhi: In three years, there were demands by over 170 VIPs including Sachin Tendulkar, Shashi Tharoor, Nitin Gadkari and Yogi Adityanath for new railway zones and divisions in their constituencies that are under consideration of the railway board, according to railway ministry records. Railwa

The brutal rape of an eight-year-old girl in Mandsaur earlier this week has come as a painful reminder of the infamous 2012 Delhi gang rape case, where a nursing student was sexually assaulted by six people on a private bus before being abandoned on the roadside. Police said Irfan Khan, a 20-year

Agartala: Three separate lynching cases in a day in Tripura triggered a blame game between the ruling BJP and the opposition CPI(M) and Congress on Friday. Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb and Law Minister Ratan Lal Nath blamed the CPI(M) for the lynching incidents, while the left party and the Co

Lucknow: What are the “failures” of the Yogi Adityanath government? What are the achievements of the Manmohan Singh government? How many Assembly seats make up one Lok Sabha seat? These are some of the questions that made up the Congress’ written test for candidates hoping to become party spokesp

A man was lynched by a mob in Tripura on Thursday on suspicion of being a child lifter while two others were critically injured. Jahir Khan died on the spot while Gulzar and Khurshid Khan are battling for their lives. All of them are from Uttar Pradesh. This is the 24th killing in the country in

External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday launched a Passport Seva app that will allow people to apply for the vital travel document from anywhere in the country using their mobile phones. Until now, applicants had no choice but to apply for the document at passport seva kendras (PSKs) in t

MUMBAI: Five people died after a King Air C90 charter aircraft crashed in Ghatkopar, the congested central suburbs of Mumbai, on Thursday afternoon. All occupants on board, which included two pilots -- Capt P S Rajput and Capt Maria -- and two aircraft maintenance engineers along with one person

Mughalsarai (Uttar Pradesh): Ten jawans of the Border Security Force (BSF) went missing while traveling in a special army train between West Bengal's Bardhaman and Jharkhand's Dhanbad railway stations on Wednesday. The train, headed towards Samba Sector in Jammu and Kashmir, contained a total of 83

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s road shows, a critical part of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s successful election campaigns, might be scaled down due an “all-time high” threat assessment, according to the ministry of home affairs. The ministry has issued new security guidelines for the Prime M

A Class 12 student was allegedly raped by five youths for over three days in Manali town of Himachal Pradesh, police said on Wednesday. Police said they had received a complaint about two Class 12 girls going missing on June 17. The girls were found on June 20. Initially, they did not allege a

Raising the heat on the Ayodhya issue ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said Monday that “there should be no doubt” that a temple will be built at the disputed Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid site. Addressing a “Sant Sammelan” in Ayodhya, Adityanath

Mumbai: After a survey showed India as the most dangerous country in the world for women, Congress president Rahul Gandhi left no time to slam Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP over the issue of women safety. Taking to Twitter, Rahul Gandhi said PM Modi is tip-toeing around his garden while t

New Delhi: The summer heat took its toll on an IAF personnel who collapsed during the guard of honour ceremony organised at the Rashtrapati Bhavan for visiting Seychelles President Danny Faure. Faure, who is on his first bilateral visit to India, was accorded a ceremonial welcome at the Rashtrapa

JAIPUR: Former state minister and a five-time MLA Ghanshyam Tiwari has resigned from the Bharatiya Janata Party. The former minister has announced a new party along with this son to fight against "undeclared emergency" in Rajasthan and the country. Tiwari has sent his resignation to the BJP chief

Police in Odisha’s tribal-dominated district of Mayurbhanj are interrogating a woman who reportedly buried her child soon after its birth in a cow dung pit. Masuri Singh, wife of a tribal man Hindu Singh in Dhipasahi village, reportedly buried their newborn son in the dung pit on Wednesday night.

BHOPAL: An overcautious Madhya Pradesh police stopped and stripped villagers of every single black cloth, including handkerchiefs, shirts and scarfs, who wanted to be a part of Mohanpura irrigation project’s inauguration by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Rajgarh district on Saturday. But interes

VADODARA: Students of the 73-year-old Shri Bharti School in Baranpura area were left shuddering when one of the class IX boys was found brutally stabbed to death in the washroom on Friday morning. At around 12 noon, some students who went to the washroom saw 14-year-old Dev Tadvi lying in a pool