Mandsaur (MP),  Anti-riot police personnel today moved into violence-hit areas of Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsaur district, two days after the police shot dead five protesting farmers, even as Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s attempt to meet the families of the deceased raised political temperature in the state. The government, struggling to restoreRead More

Dharamsala/Lucknow, The main accused in the Saharanpur caste violence and Bhim Army founder Chandrashekhar, alias Ravan, was today arrested from Dalhousie in Chamba district in a joint operation of the UP Special Task Force and the Himachal Pradesh Police. Chandrashekhar, a 30-year-old Dalit rights activist, who had been absconding sinceRead More

Kolkata, The Army has been called in after thousands of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) supporters held violent protests outside the Raj Bhavan in the hill town where Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee held a Cabinet meeting today. Kolkata-based Ministry of Defence PRO Wing Commander SS Birdi said two columns of theRead More

Mandsaur/Indore, June 7 Hundreds of angry farmers on Wednesday blockaded roads and attacked two top officials at Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh as their leaders claimed that eight people died in police firing a day earlier. Mandsaur District Magistrate Swatantra Kumar Singh and Indore Superintendent of Police OP Tripathi were roughedRead More

Solan, June 7 As many as eight people, including children, were killed and 15 others injured when the wall of a closed industrial unit caved in and fell on jhuggis constructed on the other side of the wall at Swarajmajra village of Baddi industrial area on Tuesday night following heavyRead More

New Delhi, June 7 There were no raids on NDTV with the CBI not entering any office of the channel, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said on Wednesday while dismissing allegations that the searches were an infringement on press freedom. The Central Bureau of Investigation’s raids onRead More

New Delhi, June 7 A Delhi court has granted bail to four men arrested for allegedly raping a US tourist in a five- star hotel here last year. Additional Sessions Judge Anu Grover Baliga granted the relief to the accused, Vivek Srivastava, Aniruddha Singh, Omprakash and Maqsood, saying they wereRead More

Chennai, June 7 A coach of a city-bound local train derailed near here on Wednesday, Southern Railway said. Nobody was injured in the mishap, it said. Four rear wheels of the Tirumalpur-Chennai Beach electric multiple unit train derailed at Chengalpattu station yard “obstructing track”, a release said. The derailment happenedRead More

Mumbai, June 7 The war between the BJP and its ruling ally in Maharashtra, the Shiv Sena, took an ugly turn on Wednesday, with the regional party boycotting a cabinet meeting. Shiv Sena ministers in the government decided to stay away from Wednesday’s meeting citing “the government’s indifference” to farmersRead More

Malkangiri (Odisha), June 7 A Maoist couple, involved in a number of crimes, including murder, and carrying rewards totalling Rs 9 lakh on their heads, surrendered before police in Malkangiri district on Wednesday to return to the mainstream as they were fed up with Naxal activities. Rama Kawasi (38), involvedRead More