The devastating collision, involving two passenger trains and a freight train, took the lives of at least 275 people and caused injuries to over 1100 others in Balasore. This tragic incident has had a profound impact across India.
The Indian army will start DNA profiling of its soldiers this year for their identification in case of mutilation of bodies during an operation, attack or mishap.
Zee Entertainment on Friday said it has "pruned" its Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC) by about 50 per cent following the guidance of a special committee, which had conducted a critical assessment of its several business verticals. The MD & CEO has pruned TIC staff strength by 50 per cent to achieve a cost-effective structure, a Bengaluru-based business vertical of the company that offers technology solutions, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) said in an official statement.
According to police, the victim's clothes had been sent to a laboratory in Hyderabad for DNA fingerprinting tests.
Incense materials comprising ghee and aromatic woods have been despatched to Kedarnath
She claimed that officials haven't given her any deadline when she will get the body.
Veteran Congress leader N D Tiwari on Wednesday moved the Delhi high court seeking a direction to keep DNA test findings 'confidential' and to hold in-camera proceedings in a paternity suit filed by a Delhi-based youth who claims to be his biological son.
A common preservative found in soft drinks has the ability to switch off vital parts of DNA, a new study has said.
The Central Bureau of Investigation is collecting DNA samples of all persons associated with the postmortem of teenager Aarushi Talwar, whose murder had hogged national focus, to find the identity of the woman whose vaginal swab was sent to CBI for forensic tests.
Polling is scheduled in all 20 seats of Kerala, 14 of the 28 seats in Karnataka, 13 seats in Rajasthan, eight seats each in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, six seats in Madhya Pradesh, five seats each in Assam and Bihar, three seats each in Chhattisgarh and West Bengal, and one seat each in Manipur, Tripura and Jammu and Kashmir.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar snapped back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday who had on Saturday said that there was something wrong in Nitish's political DNA.
Three tourists from Bangladesh were charred to death in a major blaze in a houseboat on the famous Dal Lake on Saturday, officials in Srinagar said.
The Delhi high court on Friday said that veteran Congress leader N D Tiwari can be compelled to give blood sample for DNA test in the paternity suit filed by a youth claiming to be his biological son.
A woman's DNA has been found on at least one of the explosive devices used in the Boston bombings, adding a new dimension to the probe into the terror attack that killed three people and wounded over 200 others.
The body of the girl, possibly between nine and 11 years of age, was found in the bushes in the Pandesara area of the city.
Kerala High Court today stayed for a week the order of a lower court directing Bitti Mohanty, accused in the 2006 German tourist rape case in Rajasthan, to undergo DNA test.
The second dossier is also likely to name Lashkar-e-Tayiba leaders Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and Zarar Shah as conspirators of the Mumbai carnage and furnish details as to how they planned the attacks and trained the attackers. The DNA sample of Kasab, which has already been collected by the investigators as part of efforts to prove that he is a Pakistani national, is likely to be given soon, sources said.
"The party will try to connect with these voters by organising 'Sneh Milan: Ek Desh, Ek DNA Sammelan' in various West Uttar Pradesh districts," he said, adding these conferences would start after Eid next month and the first convention will be held in Muzaffarnagar.
The team of DNA experts from Hyderabad, who arrived in Mangalore on Sunday morning to help in identifying the bodies of the Air India plane crash, has its task cut out. The team will stay in the coastal town till each victim's body is identified. Most of the bodies have been charred beyond recognition in the plane crash.A dispute has broken out between the families of Rajendra Ramesh and John Mampilly, both of whom have staked claim for the same body.
The Hyderabad-based Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics Analysis concluded that the biological fluid (semen) present on the sanitary pad of the victim was that of Rahul, the prime accused.
Sixty years after Nobel Prize winning scientist Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA, his family is offering the coveted medal for sale at an auction in New York.
In an apparent dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his DNA remark on Nitish Kumar, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said everyone should watch 'Manjhi' film to know the type of DNA Bihar is made of.
Congress leader N D Tiwari told the Delhi High Court that its order asking him to undergo DNA test, on a suit filed by a young man claiming to be his biological son, was "erroneous" as his mother's marriage with her husband was subsisting at the time of his birth.
'This might prove to be a temporary gain for the BJP, but at a huge cost to the people of Gujarat and democracy in India.'
Blood samples collected from 31 Assam Rifles personnel have been sent for testing. Two AR personnel are yet to give their samples.
Asked about the BJP's claim that its performance in southern states will be exemplary, Tharoor said, "The claim of an 'exemplary' performance is yet another product of the BJP's propaganda mill."
'You cannot win an election without putting together a massive war chest.' 'It is impossible to put a war chest together, without giving and taking favours from India Inc, with a large dose of extortion thrown in,' says Devangshu Datta.
The police on Tuesday exhumed the body of the victim of the alleged fake encounter in Poonch district and took samples for a DNA test to ascertain his identity. After the approval of the district administration, the body of the August 7 encounter victim was dug out in Surankote belt of Poonch district, in the presence of Additional Superintendent of Police Yougal Manhas, Magistrate (Tehsildar) Nisar Ahmed Khan and other officials on Tuesday afternoon, said the police.
'... dividing society not just on religious lines, but also creating rift in families and among brothers and sisters.'
The Kerala high court on Friday upheld a lower court order allowing police to conduct a DNA test on Alwar rape convict Bitti Mohanty, who jumped parole and was arrested after five years from Kannur district.
As most of the victims were charred beyond recognition after the bus caught fire in the early hours of Saturday, efforts were made to convince their families for mass cremation of the bodies instead of their DNA analysis, the official said.
Richardson also took aim at players claiming confusion over ball-tampering rules, saying the laws were clear and their complaints "disingenuous" in a speech at the MCC's Colin Cowdrey Lecture at Lord's.
Enthused by the prospect of mid-term polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday sought to puncture the Congress' stability plank and said it was not in the ruling party's DNA to run a coalition government. Ridiculing efforts by the Congress and the Left to end the nuclear stalemate, the saffron party said that the quarrelsome partners have paralysed governance and the nation is tired and fatigued by the "farce and misadventure called the United Progressive Alliance."
Gulshan, along with her husband Mohammad Nasiruddin and two small children, has been travelling a distance of 95 km from her house in Pilkhuwa in Uttar Pradesh to Delhi every day since last week to find her dead father's remains
Singh Lakshman Meena, 33, a research scientist at the University of Central Florida, is also accused of taking disks with research information in them.
A day after they claimed that a nine-year-old Sikh boy found abandoned in a London bus stop last week was their son Shintu, the parents have sought a DNA test to confirm their claim. "We want a DNA test because we are sure that it was our son," Shintu's father Ganga Prasad told rediff.com over telephone from Aurangabad on Wednesday.
Claiming that Bahujan Samaj Party legislator Purshottam Naresh Dwiwedi was 'physically unable' to commit rape, his wife Asha on Thursday demanded DNA and medical test to prove his involvement in the assault on a Dalit teenager in Banda.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday defended the electoral bonds scheme, struck down as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, saying it had a laudable objective of bringing transparency in poll funding.
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