The assailants, who were on motorcycles, fired five rounds of bullets on the Chatra-based journalist on Thursday night. He died on the spot....
Even as the dust seemed to have settled down over political acrimony with regard to dismissal of Harish Rawat-led Congress ministry in Uttarakhand, state Governor K.K. Paul has apparently defended his decision not to have dismissed the chief minister after March 18....
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday gave a clean chit and removed Sadhvi Pragnya Singh Thakur and five others from the list of the accused in the September 2008 Malegaon blasts case, paving the way for their early release from prison....
Manorama Devi, a Janata Dal-United legislator and mother of murder accused Rocky Yadav, on Friday filed an anticipatory bail plea in Bihar's Gaya civil court, even as authorities prepared to confiscate her house. An arrest warrant was issued on Wednesday against Manorama Devi for keeping liquor in her home in Gaya town against the...
Baba Hardev Singh, spiritual head of Sant Nirankari Mission, died in a road accident in Montreal, Canada, an official of the organization said here on Friday. ...
Trinamool Congress leader Tapas Mallik, prime accused in the lynching of a 24-year-old ITI student in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, has been arrested, police said on Friday. ...
In a world economy still ensnared in a low-growth trap, India is well-placed to maintain its high growth rate despite the drought and the external pressures, according to UN analysts. ...
Donald Trump is going presidential. A triumphant would be Republican presidential nominee arrived in the capital on his spiffy blue, red and white "Trump Force One" to make friends with sulking party bosses under full media glare. ...
The Parkash Singh Committee, set up to probe lapses into the official response to the violence during the Jat agitation in Haryana in February, has held certain police and administrative officers guilty of laxity. ...
The cabinet on Friday approved the National Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy designed to safeguard trademark identities, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said here....
