New Delhi(PTI): The Delhi Police has provided security to suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma and her family after an FIR was registered on a complaint that she was getting death threats over her controversial remarks on Prophet Mohammad, officials said ...
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Booking up to 24 train tickets a month allowed if IRCTC user ID linked to Aadhaar
New Delhi, June 6: People can now book 24 train tickets in a month on the IRCTC website and app if their user ID is linked to Aadhaar, otherwise only 12 tickets can be bought, the Railways announced on Monday. So ...
Read More »Five UP cops torture man, insert stick in rectum, give electric shock in police custody; FIR lodged
Budaun (UP), Jun 5: Five police personnel and two unidentified people have been booked here for allegedly torturing a man in custody. Rehan (20) was held by police on suspicion of theft when he was returning home from work. He was ...
Read More »Kanpur violence: 3 FIRs registered, 500 booked as cops stay alert
Kanpur/Lucknow(PTI): The Uttar Pradesh Police Saturday booked 500 people for rioting and violence in Kanpur that left 40 injured, officials said, as an uneasy calm prevailed in the affected areas this morning. Additional Commissioner of Police (Law and order) Anand ...
Read More »Three soldiers injured in blast in J-K’s Shopian
Srinagar(PTI): Three soldiers were injured in a blast inside their private hired vehicle in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, police said. The nature of the blast is being investigated, Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, Vijay Kumar said. ...
Read More »Three of family die after falling into septic tank in Haryana’s Nuh
Nuh (Haryana), Jun 1: Three people, including an eight-year-old boy, died in a septic tank in this district, police said on Wednesday. The incident took place in Bichhor village in Punhana block on Tuesday, they said. After the boy fell into ...
Read More »Uttarakhand govt constitutes panel to implement Uniform Civil Code
Dehradun, May 27: Keeping a pre-poll promise, the Uttarakhand government on Friday constituted a panel of experts headed by a retired Supreme Court judge to implement a Uniform Civil Code for the state. The panel is headed by retired Supreme Court ...
Read More »Declared dead, newborn found alive at graveyard in J-K’s Banihal
Banihal (J&K), May 23: A baby girl who was declared dead in a hospital here soon after her birth on Monday was found to be alive when her family was forced to dig up her grave nearly an hour after she ...
Read More »Professor arrested for emails criticizing Assam Govt, CM
Hailakandi (Assam)(PTI): An associate professor of a college in Assam’s Hailakandi district was arrested Saturday for allegedly sending emails to officials criticising government policies and using unparliamentary words against the state chief minister, a police officer said. Police had registered ...
Read More »Hindu College associate professor arrested over objectionable social media post
New Delhi(PTI): Associate professor of Delhi University’s Hindu College Ratan Lal was arrested on Friday night for his objectionable social media post referring to claims about a ‘Shivling’ found inside Varanasi’s Gyanvapi mosque complex, police said. They said Lal was ...
Read More »Man held in Karnataka for raping Russian girl at Goa resort
Panaji(PTI): The Goa Police have arrested a man from his home town in neighbouring Karnataka for allegedly raping a 12-year-old Russian girl at a resort in Arambol in North Goa, where he worked as a room attendant, an official said ...
Read More »PM Modi created two Indias, one for rich and another for poor: Rahul Gandhi
Dahod (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of creating two Indias, one for the rich and another for the poor, and claimed that the resources of the country are being given to a few ...
Read More »UP: Man held for making ‘objectionable’ comments against PM Modi on social media
Sambhal (UP)(PTI): A man was held for allegedly making objectionable comments against Prime Minister Narendra Modi on social media, police said on Tuesday. Irfan Hussain of Darani village in Kudh Fatehgarh area was arrested following a complaint by BJP workers, ...
Read More »Students dance to ‘Pushpa’ song, headmistress suspended
Berhampur, May 6: The headmistress of a high school in Odisha’s Ganjam district has been suspended after a video of some students dancing in a classroom to a song of Telugu blockbuster ‘Pushpa’ went viral on social media, an official said. ...
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