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

Mumbai: A branch manager of Central Bank of India in Buldhana district has been booked for allegedly demanding sexual favours from a farmer's wife seeking crop loan, police said on Friday. The woman had accompanied her husband to the bank where they had applied for a crop loan at Datala in the Malak

Three persons in have been arrested so far in connection with a case of moral policing in which a mob accosted an unmarried couple travelling on a motorcycle at Pukhuripara village at Rongjuli area in Goalpara district about 98 km from here. State’s Director General of Police (DGP) Kuladhar Saiki

RANCHI: Five women were gang-raped at gunpoint by at least half a dozen men on Tuesday when they were on a visit to a village in Khunti district to create awareness on migration and human trafficking. It came to light a day later when the survivors contacted a social worker, who informed the police.

Kota (Rajasthan): On International Yoga Day today, Yoga Guru Ramdev led the celebrations in Rajasthan's Kota with an aim to create a Guinness World Record with the largest number of people performing yoga together. Around 1.05 lakh (still counting) people performed Yoga together in Kota to create

NEW DELHI: A passport office official in Lucknow who insulted an interfaith couple was today transferred to another location, reported Times Now. The ministry of external affairs has also sought a report from the Lucknow office about the unsavoury episode from yesterday that involved the official

In a big political development today, the ruling BJP has ended its alliance with PDP in Jammu and Kashmir. This decision was taken in a meeting chaired by BJP president Amit Shah. Following the pullout, BJP has sent a letter to the Governor, NN Vohra expressing their decision. Governor's rule is a m

MUMBAI: Maharashtra's ruling Shiv Sena on Monday came out in support of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in his agitation, days after four non-Bharatiya Janata Party ruled states also endorsed his AAP's stand. On Sunday, Kejriwal spoke to Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray on the issue wher

A civilian was killed and over 20 injured as protests broke out following Eid prayers at several places in Kashmir on Saturday. While police said 18-year-old Sheeraz Ahmad was killed in Anantnag town when a grenade he was carrying exploded in his hand, doctors at the hospital where he was brought

Agra: With an aim to bring about a change for villagers in his hometown Odisha, a 30-year-old man from Rourkela has walked 1,350 km so far to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and remind him of his 2014 poll promises. Muktikant, an idol-maker by profession, carried a national flag and set on the

Gaya Police Friday said the Koch ‘gangrape’ victim’s teenaged daughter was also gangraped on Wednesday evening when a Guraru resident had been returning home with his wife and daughter on his motorcycle. While the man was looted and tied to a tree, his wife (38) and daughter (15) were taken away

It was supposed to be a happy occasion for the family, with everyone coming home to celebrate Eid. But as they prepared for the festival, a terrible news reached them, their son Aurangzeb, who was on his way home was abducted. For the next few hours the family was praying that he will come back s

A massive fire broke out at Mumbai’s high rise building, Beaumonde towers, at the Appasaheb Marathe Marg in Worli area on Wednesday afternoon. Ten fire tenders were rushed to the spot and rescue operations are underway. The fire broke out on the top floors of the 33 storey building. The cause is sti