Four junior doctors are among those summoned by Kolkata police for questioning on Tuesday in connection with the murder and alleged sexual assault case of a second year postgraduate student at a government-run hospital in Kolkata last week.
Two police teams from Kerala are assisting Karnataka Police in questioning the two suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba militants allegedly involved in the serial bomb blasts in Bengaluru last year.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested Gujarat police officer G L Singhal in connection with the alleged fake encounter of 19-year old student Ishrat Jahan by a team of Ahmedabad crime branch officers in 2004.
The 100-foot-tall illegal billboard fell at a petrol pump in Ghatkopar during dust storms and unseasonal rains that lashed Mumbai on Monday.
'There was no consent in the sex,' Assistant Commissioner of Police Dilip Suryavanshi told rediff.com
The train hit the cylinder before coming to a screeching halt on Sunday morning. Due to being hit by the train, the cylinder was thrown away from the tracks, they said.
The protest against the alleged sexual abuse of two girls at a school in Badlapur town of Maharashtra's Thane district turned violent on Tuesday as the angry agitators vandalised the school and also indulged in stone-pelting at the local railway station during the 'rail blockade', police said.
Several Odisha police personnel and BJP supporters were injured and vehicles of the cops were damaged as saffron party workers fought a pitched battle with the force during a march to the assembly.
Mumbai, home to 1 crore voters and 420 candidates vying for 36 assembly seats, is gearing up for the Maharashtra Assembly elections on November 20. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has completed all preparations for smooth conduct of the polls, ensuring a robust security arrangement and dedicated facilities for senior citizens and differently-abled voters. The BMC has also urged citizens to exercise their franchise, emphasizing the importance of active participation in strengthening democracy.
The Dalits were protesting the killing of a Dalit family in Kherlanji in Bhandara district of Maharashtra.
Rahul Rawail remembers his mentor Raj Kapoor.
Three people have been arrested and charged in the killing of Sikh activist Nijjar, CTV News quoted a senior government source as saying.
An official said eight out of the 12 are asymptomatic, adding 40 people who had come in contact with them have been quarantined as a precautionary measure.
The city police has registered a case against Shiv Sena workers for flouting Noise Pollution Control Rules during the party's Dusshera rally, held at Shivaji Park in Mumbai. "A case under Bombay Police Act has been registered against the organisers of the rally for exceeding the 50 decibel noise level," Assistant Commissioner of Police Madhukar Sankhe told PTI.
Eleven days after she was shot dead in a Gurugram hotel, the body of ex-model Divya Pahuja was recovered from a canal in Haryana's Fatehabad district on Saturday, police said.
This was Rahul's first interrogation after he was released on bail.
The government on Tuesday put on hold the district training programme of controversial Indian Administrative Service officer Puja Khedkar, who is under the scanner for allegedly forging disability certificates to clear the Civil Services examination.
The government aims to better its last year's Guinness World Record by lighting 25 lakh diyas on the banks of Saryu river.
The fire broke out in an area near the Visakhapatnam Container Terminal and an Indian Oil Corporation facility where fishing boats were anchored.
The situation was tensed up in Telangana region on Wednesday as police baton-charged members of the Students Action Committee, who had called for a shutdown over the suicide committed by students for the Telangana cause and demanded resignations of elected representatives from the region.
The Mumbai Regional Transport Office (RTO) officials have said they suspect 'human error' and 'lack of proper training' led to the horrific accident in Kurla where a Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) bus fatally knocked down seven persons and injured 42 others.
The police have arrested Shiv Sena's Pune city unit president, an office-bearer from Hingoli and four others in connection with an alleged attack on rebel MLA and former Maharashtra minister Uday Samant's car in Pune, an official said on Wednesday.
The police want to trace the youths as well as a minor seen in the viral video, it said in court.
The DNA test report of a French diplomat here, arrested on the charge of raping his four-year -old daughter, was received by the city police on Friday.
The Railway police on Thursday recorded the statements of three officials of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group who had reportedly met Bharat Borge, the Airworks technician, who was found dead on railway tracks on Tuesday.
Two persons were arrested in Surat in Gujarat for allegedly forging documents like Aadhaar and PAN cards as well as voter IDs using a website, in the process posing a serious threat to national security, a police official said on Monday.
Deepak Mendiratta says he has been kidnapped
Prashant Indulkar, 37, was secretary to VSNL's Managing Director N Srinath and was picked up by the Dadar police on February 1 after VSNL filed a complaint alleging that he had siphoned off funds.
Eleven people were arrested near Eden Gardens stadium in Kolkata ahead of India's T20 cricket match with New Zealand on Sunday for allegedly selling tickets illegally, police said.
After three days of panic and frenzy, during which hundreds of people from Assam and other north-eastern states left Hyderabad city, Andhra Pradesh government seems to have succeeded in turning the tide.
288 first-time offenders have been coaxed to leave the path of crime and lead a normal life.
An office assistant, who was arrested for the sexual assault of a three-and-a-half-year-old girl at a Bangalore school, was on Sunday remanded to six days police custody by a magisterial court.
The Delhi Police has registered a first information report (FIR) and formed multiple teams to probe the Rajinder Nagar coaching centre flooding incident which killed three IAS aspirants, officials said on Sunday.
The dead were identified as belonging to Punjab province. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far.
"We are waiting for the post-mortem report which will make it clear how the death happened," Patil told reporters at Mangaluru.
The boy is being produced in a juvenile court here and further legal proceedings are being carried out, Verma added.
The police said they have lodged an FIR and launched an investigation into the matter after a representative of the TV channel, located in Sector 16A Film City, approached them Tuesday evening.
Granting the interim relief to Shankar currently lodged in the Coimbatore Central Prison, a bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Ahsanuddin Amanullah said it would not decide the case on merits as the Madras high court is seized of the matter.
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