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The officials directed the local police to cordon off the crime scene, which was virtually a thoroughfare for nearly 29 days since the incident.

Racially aggravated attacks registered a spike in hate crimes recorded in England and Wales in 2019-2020 even as religious hate crimes showed a downward trend, according to official UK Home Office statistics released on Tuesday. There were 105,090 hate cr...

The National Commission for Scheduled Castes has issued notice to AIIMS, seeking an action-taken report on an ex-resident doctor's allegations that he was denied a post reserved for the SC category because he had raised questions about the interests of re...

Nitish Kumar ridiculed the RJD’s claim of approving 10 lakh government jobs at the very first cabinet on coming to power and wondered whether cabinet meetings were held properly during the 15 years of its rule.

Eight students of a government polytechnic institute have been arrested after their college mate, a minor girl student, was allegedly raped, thrashed and blackmailed, police said Tuesday. Senior Superintendent of Police Dinesh Kumar P, the incident to...

Four persons have been arrested from a hotel in North Goa district for allegedly accepting bets on a match of the ongoing Indian Premier League (PIL), police said on Tuesday. The Calangute police on Monday night raided the hotel in Candolim village wher...

A 40-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly killing his wife after a quarrel in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said. The incident took place in Bhiwandi town of the district on Monday, they said.

A 15th century fort here in Maharashtra, despite being in a good condition with its walls and arches intact, is unable to attract tourists due to lack of a proper approach road to the place. The Antur Fort, constructed during the Nizamshahi dynasty and...

The brother of the victim said that the high court hearing lasted about an hour and most of the conversation was in English, but the court was definitely not happy with the Hathras DM.

A day after the BJP named a tribal surgeon as its candidate for the Marwahi assembly bypoll in Chhattisgarh, the ruling Congress on Monday fielded a veteran doctor against him. Dr Krishan Kumar Dhruw, who had a long stint as the block medical officer (B...

Shiv Senas Telangana president Murari on Monday joined the BJP here, saying that party leader and Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackerays decision to join hands with Congress in that state has "hurt" him. He joined BJP in the presence of its T...

The Corps commander-level talks began at around 12 noon in Chushul on the Indian side of the LAC in eastern Ladakh and continued beyond 8:30pm, government sources said.

Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and opted to bat in their IPL match against Kolkata Knight Riders here on Monday. KKR brought in Tom Banton in place of Sunil Narine, who has been reported for a suspect bowling action. RCB replaced Gurkeerat...

The idea had been proposed by the West Bengal wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar recorded one more fatality linked to COVID-19 on Monday as 121 fresh infections took the district's case tally to 15,085, official data showed. So far, 60 people have died from the infection in the state. The numb...

Laxar pleaded that cremation had been done in the dead of the night because they had received intelligence inputs that some vested interests could try to provoke caste violence.