Patel was not there when outgoing CM Vijay Rupani accompanied Bhupendra Patel when the latter went to meet Governor Acharya Devvrat for staking claim to form the government.
The body of Tabarak Hussain (32) was handed over two days after he died of cardiac arrest at a military hospital in Rajouri district, officials said.
Relatives of the victims of the trans-border train were identifying them through personal belongings like ornaments and remnants of clothing.
India's total number of active COVID-19 cases has reached 1,64,511, which comprises 1.48 per cent of the country's total infections, the Union health ministry said on Sunday highlighting six states that have shown a surge in new cases in a span of 24 hours.
An Indian engineer was among nine people killed when a gunman opened fire at a crowded mall in Dallas in the US state of Texas, authorities said on Monday.
Safdar Nagori, one of the 38 convicts sentenced to death in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts case by a Gujarat court on Friday, appeared remorseless after the sentencing for a terror act that killed 56 people, and was heard saying the Constitution does not mean anything to him.
An alternate aircraft of Indian budget carrier SpiceJet flew to Dubai from Karachi's Jinnah International Airport on Tuesday night, ending a wait of nearly 11 hours for 138 passengers who got stranded there after taking off from New Delhi in the morning.
Ten people died and 28 more were injured when an overcrowded mini-bus plunged into a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district on Wednesday, officials said in Jammu.
A young woman said to be a follower of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect immolated herself at her house in a village near Bathinda on Friday, allegedly as she was upset due to the Dera-Sikh row.
The thanks-giving activities will start with laying of wreaths at the police memorial in Delhi and in several other cities on Sunday morning to honour the police personnel deployed in enforcement of the nationwide lockdown, officials said. It will be followed by fly-pasts by fighter and transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force, covering a sizeable number of cities and towns across the country between 10 am and 11 am, officials said.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. But authorities blame such attacks on tribesmen who oppose the military's campaign to build new garrisons, which the government says are needed to bolster security.
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In a freak incident, a senior police officer of Nagaland shot dead his wife 'accidentally' at Wokha, the police said on Monday.
Amid a spurt in COVID-19 cases in some parts of the world, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday cautioned against complacency and directed officials to strengthen the ongoing surveillance measures, especially at international airports.
Satinder Kumar, who represented India at the Asian championship, was found dead in his room at the SAI hostel in Hisar.
A fight broke out in the MCD House as Bharatiya Janata Party and Aam Aadmi Party members kicked, punched and pushed one another amid shouting after mayor Shelly Oberoi declared one vote invalid in the election to a key six-member municipal committee on Friday.
The case fatality rate has declined to 1.83 per cent, the ministry data stated.
State Education Minister Anandiben Patel, who rushed to the site on Friday night, told mediapersons that the government would investigate the incident thoroughly.
'The Manipur government is a government now ruled by the mob.'
35-year-old Vambadiya was part of the group that had gathered outside the premises of the collector office in Rajkot demanding that government should declare cow as 'Rashtra Mata'.
The last rites of Cyrus Mistry, former chairman of Tata Sons who was killed in a car crash, will be performed in Mumbai on Tuesday, his family said.
Union Coal Minister Shibu Soren was on Tuesday night lodged in Tihar jail soon after he was convicted by a Delhi court in a murder case.
Among those killed were eight from TMC, and one worker each of the BJP, the CPI-M, the Congress and the ISF.
A resolution commemorating the life of Indian human rights defender Father Stan Swamy and seeking an independent investigation into the death of the Jesuit priest has been introduced in the US Congress, Congressman Juan Vargas has said.
The mortal remains of the former Union minister were consigned to flames by his son Shantanu Bundela and daughter Subhasini in his ancestral village Ankhmau at around 5 pm.
Imran believes three people -- Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah and Major General Faisal (Naseer) -- were involved in the attack on him.
After having spent two days in police remand following his surrender before a Jhajjar court on Saturday, the former Indian cricket captain will be presented in court later on Monday.
Former Indian cricket captain Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, who is in one-day police remand, was on Sunday taken to Kilodh village near Jhajhar where he and his associates allegedly killed an endangered black buck and two rabbits.
The police said Satvinder is a resident of village Bali near Ganaur in Sonipat district and the girl a resident of Rohtak town.
In a tragic incident, a newborn girl was charred to death in fire after an explosion in the CNG kit of an ambulance, an official said on Friday.
The bodies of four terrorists, killed in the Pathankot terror attack four months ago, were buried on Wednesday at an undisclosed location in the garrison city.
A 28-year-old man from Uttar Pradesh has claimed that his right hand was chopped off by some locals in Haryana's Panipat where he had gone in search of a job. However, a family has filed a complaint against the man, identified as Ikhlaq from Nanauta in Saharanpur district, that he allegedly sodomised a seven-year-old boy.
They have asked the chief minister to incur expenses for the treatment of Surjan Singh Bhandari, who was injured during the Akshardham attack, when he is taken to Delhi.
Police force was deployed in large numbers in the tense Polan Bazar area dominated by the minority community.
Internet chat sessions brought together Maria of Virginia, USA, and Sheikh Azhar Quereshi, a jawan in the Madhya Pradesh Special Armed Forces. Maria reached Madhya Pradesh Sept 16 to marry Quereshi.
'They are afraid that if they approach a police station for filing a complaint they might themselves get arrested under some random charges.'
The third phase trial of Bharat Biotech's Covaxin began in the state on Friday and the 67-year old senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader was administered the trial dose at the Civil Hospital at Ambala Cantt.
A 12-year-old boy has filed a complaint in Ahmedabad against three of them.
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