Rebel Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Kapil Mishra moved the Delhi high court on Monday against chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s low attendance in Delhi assembly. Mishra’s plea, which was urgently admitted in the high court, claimed that Kejriwal, who also holds the water portfolio, was present only se

New Delhi: Mohit Goel, who once made international headlines by offering the world's cheapest smartphone, was arrested by the police on Sunday in an extortion case along with two others. News agency ANI reported that those arrested were allegedly trying to extort money for settling a rape case in De

Guwahati: Two youths from Guwahati were battered to death in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district on Friday night on suspicion of being child lifters. Police said Abhijit Nath and Nilutpal Das were on their way to the Kanthe Langshu picnic spot when their vehicle was attacked by a group of men at Panju

Uttar Pradesh: Only Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath can never indulge in corruption, said a BJP parliamentarian Brij Bhushan Sharan. "Our Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adiyanath do not indulge in any kind of corruption

Mumbai: Plans to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a "Rajiv Gandhi-like incident" have been revealed in a letter seized from a suspected Maoist, the Pune police told a court on Thursday. Five people were arrested on Wednesday for links with the banned CPI-Maoist - Dalit activist Sudhir

New Delhi: JNU student leader Umar Khalid has filed a complaint with the Delhi Police, alleging he has received death threats from a man who identified himself as fugitive gangster Ravi Pujari, a senior official said on Saturday. Dalit leader and Independent MLA from Gujarat Jignesh Mevani too al

A third of the city’s traffic managed by Artificial Intelligence (AI), fewer traffic policemen, and depth sensors that will regulate traffic signals -- this isn’t a futuristic version of a first-world city, but a short-term plan for Delhi in, believe it or not, 2019. Last month, Delhi’s top polic

MUMBAI: A two-year-old boy, Adihant Tamboli, has died after drowning in a drain at MJ Road in Chembur East on Thursday. The boy was playing on the footpath close to his grandparents’ house when he fell into the drain. The boy’s family saw him fall into the drain and raised an alarm. The police an

MUMBAI: Heavy rains lashed many parts of Mumbai since Thursday morning. Parts of Mulund, Ghatkopar, Kurla, Dadar and Parel received a significant downpour. The rains caused waterlogging at many parts of the city and especially in low lying areas. Parts of Khar, Sion and Worli witnessed significant

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday booked the principal and three other teaching staff members of the National Defence Academy in Khadakwasla, Pune for alleged irregularities in recruitment of teaching staff. The CBI said it had booked the NDA principal Om Prakash Shukla, head

While on patrolling duty at GB Road, a constable in plainclothes was approached by a man who wanted to “sell” a minor girl. The constable, who had been mistaken for a trafficker, played along and told the man to bring the girl. A trap was laid and the man and his associate were arrested, with the po

Ahmedabad: Gujarat's former Deputy Inspector General of Police DG Vanzara on Tuesday told a special court that the CBI wanted to arrest then Chief Minister Narendra Modi and then Minister of State for Home Amit Shah in the Ishrat Jahan fake shootout case. Arguing for Vanzara in a discharge petiti

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of giving scripted interviews on public platforms. “The first Indian PM who takes “spontaneous” questions that the translator has pre-scripted answers to!” Gandhi tweeted while alluding to PM’s interview at Singapore’s Na

Kolkata: The owner of an eatery was shot dead on Sunday evening in West Bengal. The man's crime: demanding Rs.190 for a plate of biryani from four customers. After he asked for money, a fight erupted and one of the customers shot the eatery owner, according to the police. Sanjay Mondal was dec

Purulia: The man, whose body was found hanging from a power transmission tower here on Saturday, had committed suicide, the police said on Sunday on the basis of the post-mortem report, even as normal life was partially hit in the district following a 12-hour bandh called by the BJP, which claimed t

New Delhi: The government on Sunday said the records related to the investigation into the Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi case were safe as they were transferred out before a fire broke out in the Income Tax Office in Mumbai. The clarification came following media reports claiming the records were d

Chief Election Commissioner O.P. Rawat on Saturday ruled out bringing back ballot papers in elections and said the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) was being made a “scapegoat” as “it cannot speak.” Political parties needed to blame someone or something for their defeat, he said. “In July 2017, th

SHILLONG: The army was asked to be on standby and curfew continued in parts of Meghalaya's capital Shillong for the third day on Saturday after night-long violence during which a mob burnt a shop, a house and damaged at least five vehicles besides injuring a senior police officer. At least 500 peopl