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India recorded an average of 79 murder cases daily in 2019, while children constituted almost 66 per cent of total kidnapping and abduction victims during the year, according to a latest government data. A total of 28,918 cases of murder were registered...

It refused to agree with the submission of the Delhi police that the Principal Committee, formed to oversee Yamuna rejuvenation, made recommendations in favour of the Delhi Police.

Delhi Commission For Women chairperson Swati Maliwal on Wednesday wrote to the Chief Justice of India demanding action against those officials who were allegedly involved in covering up the brutal Hathras gangrape and murder incident. Maliwal also dema...

The much-awaited judgment in the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition case in which BJP veterans L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi are among the accused was pronounced on Wednesday.

Los Angeles (AP) Helen Reddy, who shot to stardom in the 1970s with her feminist anthem I Am Woman and recorded a string of other hits, has died. She was 78. Reddy's children Traci and Jordan announced that the actress-singer died Tuesday in Los Angeles...

Testosterone is the male sex hormone and decreases on an average by 0.8-2 percent a year after 40 years. The fact could be comprehended behind the outcome of coronavirus in older patients.

The US House of Representatives has passed a bipartisan bill aimed at raising awareness about the alarming rate of heart disease in South Asian communities throughout the United States while investing in strategies to reverse the deadly trend. The South...

A phased return of the students to the campus, more time to be given to the students ahead of the entrance exams and extending the deadline for research scholars were some of the demands put forth by the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU)...

The postmortem of a 19-year-old woman, who died in Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital a fortnight after being gang raped in Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh, was conducted in presence of police personnel here, sources said. Earlier Tuesday, the woman's father...

Farmers held protests at various mandis in Haryana's Kurukshetra district for the third day on Tuesday, alleging delay in paddy procurement and a lack of coordination between the government departments and various agencies. Farmers in Karnal district al...

The vice-president's wife, Usha Naidu, has tested negative and is in self-isolation.

The police had booked them under IPC sections 188(Disobedience to order duly promulgated by a public servant),269 (Negligent act likely to spread infection of disease tha tis dangerous to life) and the Epidemic Diseases Act for not informing local authori...

A Pakistani law enforcement agency has booked singer Meesha Shafi and eight others for allegedly staging a smear campaign against fellow singer-actor Ali Zafar, who has worked in Indian films, with a sexual harassment complaint. The Federal Investigation...

A minor fire erupted on Tuesday afternoon outside a COVID-19 ICU ward of civil hospital in Gujarat's Surendranagar town, an official said. Nobody was injured in the incident as the blaze was brought under control immediately.

Delhi Jal Board vice-chairman Raghav Chadha on Tuesday said the utility has issued notices to several central government departments, including the Railways and Delhi Police, and municipal corporations asking them to pay outstanding dues amounting to Rs 6...

Writer Anuja Chauhan adds a dollop of spine-chilling suspense to her patented mix of laugh-out-loud humour and toe-tingling romance in her new book, which will be published in the summer of 2021. HarperCollins India on Tuesday announced the acquisition...