Heavy overnight rains damaged the Rishikesh-Gangotri and Rishikesh-Badrinath national highways in Uttarakhand leading to suspension of traffic along the affected stretches for public safety, an official said on Friday.
"Today, during a training sortie in Patnitop area, Indian Army's Cheetah helicopter crash-landed in Shiv Garh Dhar area in the district," a Jammu-based defence spokesman said.
Slamming Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi for stating that poverty was just a "state of mind," Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said the Congress leadership and Planning Commission should immediately stop making fun of poverty.
All of them, including Patkar, were taken to hospitals by the administration, police said.
In the past, and even to some extent today, silver jewellery used to be an accurate indicator of a family's creditworthiness, says Geetanjali Krishna.
The victim, in her complaint, has accused Sharma of raping her after showing pornographic material to her, the official said, but did not divulge any further details.
The politically crucial Malwa-Nimar region of Madhya Pradesh played a key role in propelling the Congress to power in 2018 after a gap of 15 years and the party is utilising the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra to strengthen its position in the belt a year ahead of the assembly polls.
The Opposition also asked the Prime Minister's Office to probe the incident, calling it "shameful.
According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the Ayanagar weather station recorded 99.2 mm rainfall, the maximum in the city, during the 24-hour period ending at 8.30 am on Thursday.
Firing yet another salvo at RSS, Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh alleged that all arrested "Hindu terrorists" had links with the Sangh.
A whistle-blower in Madhya Pradesh's Vyapam scam was transferred even as the Supreme Court on Monday allowed the SIT and STF of the state to file chargesheets in the cases.
An NGO working for the Bhopal gas tragedy victims has alleged that there are no accurate figures available on the death toll of the world's worst industrial disaster even after 30 years and has also raised concern over the toxic waste lying in defunct Union Carbide plant situated near the densely populated old Bhopal area.
Extensive arrangements have been made due to the COVID-19 pandemic including personal protective equipment kits for election staff, more polling booths, thermal screening, sanitisers, masks and gloves for voters and markings to ensure social distancing, officials said.
At least six people were killed and around 21 injured after a bus rolled down a 250- feet deep gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Sirmaur District on Thursday.
Relatives of the three youths, belonging to Dhar Sakri village in Kotranka of Rajouri area in Poonch, had lodged a written missing persons report in the local police station after they lost contact with them on July 17. The three were working as labourers in apple and walnut orchards in Amshipura.
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A newly-wed Pakistani couple, facing stiff opposition from locals in their village after their love marriage, crossed over to India near Kutch in Gujarat but was on Thursday deported by security forces after interrogation.
The student went to discuss his poor grades with his assistant professor and ended up stabbing her in the neck.
In view of the volatile situation, the Centre rushed 1,100 personnel of anti-riot Rapid Action Force.
Rajesh Karkera journeys through verdant countryside to the little-explored pristine Lonar lake in eastern Maharashtra.
Special Police Officer Naresh Kumar was killed in the encounter between the terrorists and the security forces in the forest area of Mendhar in Poonch district, defence sources said. The Bhati Dhar forest of Mendhar area has been cordoned off by the forces, which are also being assisted by Special Operation Group of police.
Army on Friday handed over about 37 acres of demined farmland to the villagers in the Akhnoor belt along the Line of Control in the Jammu district.
A same sex couple has moved the Delhi high court seeking they be allowed to get married under the Special Marriage Act, saying they have been living together as a couple for eight years, in love with each other sharing the highs and lows of life, but unable marry as they are both women. A similar plea has been moved by two men, who got married in the United States, but their marriage was not registered under the Foreign Marriage Act of 1969 by the Indian consulate as they were a same sex couple.
The Army, along with special forces and commandos of the state police force, is planning to conduct surgical operations to destroy the hideouts and neutralise the terrorists, who have taken positions in natural cave-type fortified bunkers in the area in the last 90 hours
The scion of the erstwhile Gwalior dynasty garlanded the portrait of Mahatma Gandhi on the stage before sitting on the 'satyagraha'.
A video purportedly showed the MLA inciting people to set a police station ablaze.
The district police on Wednesday filed a charge sheet in the Chief Medical Officer B P Singh murder case, holding Deputy CMO YS Sachan responsible for hiring shooters to kill him. The charge sheet was filed by Gomti Nagar police station Station House Officer Abhimanyu Dhar Dwivedi in Chief Judicial Magistrate Rajesh Upadhyay's court.
The army has begun its probe and recorded statements in connection with last month's encounter in Shopian area of South Kashmir after families in Rajouri area of Jammu region filed a complaint with the Jammu and Kashmir police about its members missing from the same region.
The Ayodhya district administration has told news channels that litigants in the Ayodhya land dispute case should not be part of any discussions that they broadcast from the temple town during the 'Bhumi Pujan' for the Ram temple on August 5. In an advisory, it also said that if channels are broadcasting a debate or programme from Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh during the ground-breaking ceremony, there should be no comments against any person or religion.
The reason behind the suicides is believed to be stress, they said adding that separate cases have been registered in this regard.
In Sehore alone, the home district of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, five suicides have been reported.
A militant was gunned down while a soldier got injured in fierce gun battles that broke out between militants and security forces in Uri sector near LoC and in Baramulla district of north Kashmir on Wednesday.
A self-styled militant commander was among the three top Laskhar-e-Tayiba ultras killed in an encounter with the police in a remote village in Doda district on Friday.On a tip off about the presence of the militants, a joint team of the Special Task Force of police, assisted by security forces, launched an operation in Tagan Dhar in Gandoh belt, 290 kms from Doda, early on Friday morning, police said. During cordon and search operations, militants opened fire at them.
The Army is retaliating strongly and effectively, the spokesman said.
As the gunbattle in Bhati Dhar forest in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district entered the sixth day today, the army said it has adopted a "wait and watch" strategy to take on the holed-up terrorists in cave hideouts in the area.
Patel later released on bail later and transported out of Madhya Pradesh in police vehicles
Two hardcore Lashkar-e-Tayiba militants, including a foreigner, were killed and two special police officers wounded in a fierce gunbattle at Gundoh in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, official sources said in Jammu.
Banerjee had on Saturday invited the agitators for closed-door talks, but the offer was turned down by them.
Aneek Dhar and Sanchita Bhattacharjee are presently out of danger.
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