Stepping up the party's moves to reach out to Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee, Bharatiya Janata Party President Rajnath Singh on Wednesday talked to her over phone and condemned her heckling by Communist Party of India-Marxist protesters here while demanding a thorough probe into the incident.
A 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered by her cousin at Uchvania village of Dahod taluka, the police said on Monday.
The crime branch's probe into the assault on a police officer inside the Maharashtra assembly premises by members of Legislative Assembly has hit a roadblock after the Government said the CCTV footage of the incident was inconclusive and those involved in the attack have not been clearly identified.
The judicial custody of seven accused named in a charge sheet for their alleged roles in the killings of liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his younger brother Hardeep was on Friday extended by a Delhi court by 14 days.
A man lobbed a shoe at former President Pervez Musharraf when he appeared in a Pakistani court in Karachi on Friday, but it did not hit him.
An emotional Italian Defence Minister Giampaolo Di Paola has said that the two Italian marines who were sent back to India to face trial for the killing of Indian fishermen did so willingly.
In order to prove the charges against the accused in the March 15 Swiss woman gang rape case, the police said they would count more on the scientific evidence than traditional methods like identification parade.
An Indian-American along with two others from Alabama have been sentenced for their roles in an identity theft and tax fraud scheme, the United States justice department has said.
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating girls' education, has signed a deal for a whopping $3 million to pen down her memoir.
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Thursday set up a panel to investigate torture marks on the body of Chamel Singh.
Schedule Caste families were stoppped from performing Holi pooja and assaulted allegedly by the members of upper caste at Jahangirpur village of Jhajjar district of Haryana.
A plea of two accused in the December 16 gang rape that instead of day-to-day trial, it be held on alternate days, was today rejected by a special court in New Delhi, which also pulled up their lawyers saying such pleas are made to delay the proceedings.
India is unlikely to slap a fine on Russia for the delay in the delivery of aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov caused by engine problems, an official with Russia's state-run arms exporter has said.
A British court rejected the appeal by Ravi Shankaran, a key accused in the Naval War Room leak case, against his extradition to India after an assurance was given by the Central Bureau of Investigation that his bail will not be opposed once he is brought back to face trial.
Janata Dal-United on Thursday made it clear that it has no plans to support the united Progressive Alliance if the Centre grants special status to Bihar, saying there is no question of any 'bargain' in the matter.
An investigation has been ordered into the death of Indian prisoner Chamel Singh, after he was allegedly assaulted by staff at a Pakistani jail, Pakistan High Commissioner Salman Bashir said on Thursday, maintaining that there should be 'no anxiety' over the issue.
Attacking the ruling United Progressive Alliance at the Centre, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Thursday took potshots at the Congress, saying 'Hand' (the party's symbol) betrayed the state's interests.
Amid a nation-wide controversy, the Union Public Service Commission has withdrawn changes suggested by it in civil services mains examination, dropping mandatory English language paper requirement.
The anxious family of 22-year-old Indian-American student Sunil Tripathi, who went missing on March 16, has issued a passionate plea for him to return home.
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