With a view to strengthen security of women passengers in trains, the North Eastern Railway (NER) plans to deploy women police personnel on trains during night hours as well as install 'panic buttons' in coaches. Since the railways is focussing on "women and child safety" this year, it plans depl

A day after 18 people were killed when a section of a flyover under construction fell on moving cars and pedestrians in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh police said they had sent at least five letters to the UP State Bridge Corporation (UPSBC) since November last year and registered an FIR in February this y

A delegation of Goa Congress leaders led by its legislature party leader Babu Kavlekar will head to Raj Bhavan Friday morning and meet Governor Mridula Sinha staking claim to form government in the state. “Yes, we have an appointment with the Governor tomorrow morning. We will be going to meet he

Amid intense jockeying for power and allegations of horse-trading, Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala on May 16 invited the BJP’s B.S. Yeddyurappa to form the government in the State, prompting the Congress to move the Supreme Court. The court has said that it will not stay the swearing-in, but will m

The Narendra Modi government has been very liberal in granting funds to Tamil Nadu for execution of a slew of developmental schemes, Union Minister of State for Finance and Shipping Pon. Radhakrishnan said on Monday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been according top priority to Tamil Nadu with

On Monday, PM Modi speaking at the BJP headquarters slammed the Mamata government over the West Bengal Panchayat violence calling it a ‘murder of democracy’. He said people were bullied and weren't even allowed to file nominations. He said: “There is one more thing I want to talk about...the scen

Lucknow: An under-construction flyover in Varanasi collapsed on Tuesday evening with at least 16 feared dead and as many as 50 are trapped under the debris. A portion of the flyover near Varanasi's cantonment area railway station came down on several people - possibly labourers. As many as four v

As many as 80 people have been killed in five states due to thunderstorms and lightning strikes since Sunday, with Uttar Pradesh alone recording 51 deaths, the Home Ministry said on Monday. Fourteen people died in West Bengal, 12 in Andhra Pradesh, two in Delhi and one in Uttarakhand, a ministry

Delhi Police on Monday filed charges in the death of Sunanda Pushkar and named her widower Shashi Tharoor, a Congress member of Parliament, as one of the accused. The charges were filed in the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Dharmender Singh under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections of husband or h

GUNTUR, ANDHRA PRADESH: It was a regular day for this 14-year-old girl when she fell unconscious at her home in Andhra Pradesh. Her family took her for a medical check-up, but the doctors at the hospital were shocked to find her at least three months pregnant. After repeated questioning, the girl fi

In a first, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) conducted separate exams for six students of class 10 and 12 this year as they were representing the country in international sports championships during the regular schedule. Four of these six students, including Commonwealth Games hero

In a bizarre and utterly shocking incident, a 13-year-old boy was married to a 23-year-old lady, amid all the relatives, villagers and band bajaa baraat. The two tied the knot in April in Upparahal village of Andhra Pradesh's Kurnool district. However, the incident came in light just this week.

Violent clashes between two groups have left one person dead besides injuring more than 25 persons in Aurangabad district. The violence, said to be of a communal nature, apparently erupted over a trivial matter and raged through Friday night with several small shops and a number of vehicles, incl

INDORE: A 23-day trial ended in a death sentence for a man who raped and killed a four-month-old girl in Madhya Pradesh last month. The Indore session court today convicted Naveen Gadke of rape and murder of an infant and handed him a death sentence under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences

The Supreme Court Collegium today agreed in principle to reiterate the recommendation for elevation of Uttarakhand High Court Chief Justice K M Joseph as a judge of the apex court, after his name was returned by the Centre. Justice Joseph had headed the bench in the Uttarakhand High Court that ha

The Jharkhand High Court today granted six-week provisional bail to former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad on medical ground after hearing all t he three fodder scam cases in which he is convicted. The bail, granted by Justice Apresh Kumar Singh, would be effective from the day he is released fr

Himanshu Roy, a top Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and a former chief the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad, committed suicide today. Roy, who was serving as the Additional Director General of Police in Maharashtra, shot himself with his service revolver at his residence in south Mumbai betwe

A Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist, who was recently arrested by Baramulla police following the killing of three civilians on April 30, has said that the Army could have killed him, but instead, armymen saved his life. In a confessional video, recorded in police custody, LeT terrorist Aijaz Gujri