Two women doctors were injured in Indore when a five-member team of health officials was pelted with stones in Taatpatti Bakhal area on Wednesday while they were trying to trace a person who had come into contact with a COVID-19 patient, police said.
The victims have been identified as Sushil Nag, Ghatsila circle inspector, his driver and two activists of the Nagarik Suraksha Samiti, an anti-extremism outfit floated by villagers and supported by the district police.
Rediff reader Thomas GK who recently travelled to Gavi, an eco-forest in Kerala with his family shares his experience.
To an award show that's famous for honouring artists belatedly, we have sent as our official entry one of our major film-makers's weakest work yet, feels Sreehari Nair.
The report of the Judicial Magistrate Thirukovilur in Villupuram District stated the medical reports did not suggest rape on the four women of the Irular tribal community.
Violence erupted on the campus around last midnight, following a clash between two student groups leading to the death of Mahtab, DIG (AligarhRange) Govind Agarwal, who led the police operation, said.
The Shimshal Mountaineering School in Pakistan is training students, many of them women, to scale some of the world's highest peaks.
After 11 days, Mumbai is bidding adieu to its favourite deity -- Ganpati Bappa. Here's a look at the celebrations.
Three rifles, two guns and some live cartridges were recovered from Pervej, son of minister of state for backward development.
A Ganesh Nadar and Saisuresh Sivaswamy, on the campaign trail with H Vasanthakumar, the Congress's businessman candidate in Tamil Nadu.
MSG 2 is a bizarre experience, says Raja Sen.
The bandh was called by opposition parties and student organisations in protest against the killing of three youths in an alleged police encounter.
The victims included five policemen, among whom were officer-in-charge Sada Hantal and assistant sub-inspector Silamani Mallick of the Kalimela police station, sources said.
Among them is a coal merchant and a bank manager, from Rohtas district.
She is the widow of slain Australian missionary Graham Stuart Staines.
'The duration of her stay in the hospital will be decided by the doctors after investigations are over,' sources said.
'Tying somebody to the jeep is not the military way, but the officer was able to come out of the situation without any bloodshed.' 'I am not supporting him, but I am also not criticising him.' 'He had to use some mechanism to save the uniformed personnel, many of whom were Kashmiri boys of the J&K police,' points out Lieutenant General D B Shekatkar (retd), who was instrumental in the surrender of a record 1,267 terrorists in Kashmir.
'How does relief in the form of citizenship to a persecuted Hindu in Bangladesh put the citizenship of an Indian Muslim in danger?', asks Dr Sudhir Bisht.
'The army major was arrogant with power and considered himself as my creator'
Despite the romance around the car and its early models, Fiat in India will also be remembered as a brand that frittered away the first mover advantage, says Shally Seth Mohile.
Defence witness Hemalata Karua claimed the event occurred two days before Staines and his two minor sons were burnt to death.
Local outfit Mahindra United pipped Mohammed Sporting, Kolkata 4-3 in the third round of the eighth National Football League.
Union minister K J Alphons said that he was not responsible for delay.
She was proceeding from her parent's place to her home when the crime occurred in Jehanabad district.
'The times are such that hard facts must be swept away in lies.' 'Not even a war of mere words seems civil in a delicate situation like this.'
At a time when nationalism is a much-debated topic and the Armed forces' sacrifices are being ignored, a 'Wall of Heroes' at schools and colleges across the country to inspire the youth is a must, says Tarun Vijay.
Here's a list of the top five major temple tragedies in the past 10 years.
'To enjoy the wilderness is to be rebooted to factory settings,' says Mitali Saran. 'Your eyes have to readjust their focal length from arm's length to way, way across the bank, where the stone-still slab of a crocodile lies snaggle-toothed in the sun, or to where a crested serpent eagle perches in a complication of light and shade, considering its options.'
The heist stretch of the movie is not without imagination, but arriving at that chunk, and sitting through what follows, can be bad for your skin, warns Sreehari Nair.
The sound of the water amidst the silence of nature will remove all the tiredness of the journey, says Ashim Chakravarty.
What happens when a Delhi professor is given the rare opportunity to travel with the Pakistan army along the LoC? Find out in this fascinating excerpt from Happymon Jacob's book, The Line of Control: Travelling With The Indian And Pakistani Armies.
What do you have to say about their style?
According to a police official, an altercation broke out at a hotel where he allegedly wanted to enter with an 18-year-old woman.
Siva Sankar looks at S P Balasubrahmanyam's fantastic repertoire.
'The Chinese -- up to the highest leadership -- will avoid a conflict because they know they will be badly licked.' 'The reputation they have painstakingly built over the last two-three decades of being a global power will be destroyed.'
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