Two personnel of Border Roads Organisation were on Saturday killed and several others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a convoy of Indian road construction workers in south west Afghanistan. Nearly 400 BRO personnel are engaged in construction of a key highway between Zaranj and Delaram in Afghanistan as part of India's assistance programme for reconstruction of the war-torn country.
A Delhi Police Crime Branch team led by encounter specialist Rathi had on March 31, 1997, fired indiscriminately after suspecting that the businessmen were Uttar Pradesh-based gangsters wanted by the police.
Biennial elections are being held for 58 Rajya Sabha seats across several states and by-poll for one in Kerala.
In an army that favours officers who have spent the bulk of their service years doing counter-insurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir, General Anil Chauhan is that rarity: A China specialist who has logged plenty of service years along the Line of Actual Control and the McMahon Line with China.
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has given permission to the Bank of Baroda to begin trading in the country, making it the nation's 19th registered bank.
Anil Rego, CEO, Right Horizons, answers your personal income tax queries.
The ties we fostered at NDA were borne out of enduring hardship together, ours are 24-carat bonds that would easily pass the test of time and trials. This camaraderie is the most perdurable gift of NDA.
Perumbavoor Deputy Superintendent of Police Anil Kumar has been removed from the investigating team due to lapses.
Will only a Kargil-like bombshell goad the languid government into reforming the defence set-up?
Subsidies have been stopped for several manufacturers that are under investigation for alleged violations of local-sourcing rules.
Two people were killed when police opened fire to quell clashes between two communities in Bhainsa town of Adilabad district in Andhra Pradesh on Friday. Six others were seriously injured. The District Superintendent of Police Anil Kumar said that the trouble broke out during the Durga immersion process when it was passing in front of a mosque in Panjeshah.
The builder who had complained in court that JD(U) MLA Anant Singh forcefully secured his signatures on blank cheques and threatening him, has now approached the court seeking to withdraw the petition.
The Delhi high court has issued notices to the Centre, Securities and Exchange Board of India and real estate firm DLF on an application challenging the company's decision to allot debentures to minority shareholders early this month.
Instead of summoning President Zardari to Washington to read the Riot Act, President Obama should have visited Pakistan, conversed directly with the people of Pakistan.
Pakistan pocketed a cool $953 million cheque while the American establishment still appears to be dim-witted about perceiving the Pakistan army's skullduggery.
In a four-part series, M P Anil Kumar, a former Indian Air Force fighter pilot, looks at the lawless Afghan-Pak region.
Naveen Kumar was brilliant once again with 18 raid points for Delhi but uncharacteristic errors cost their title hopes in front of a packed audience, including Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju, at the EKA Arena by TransStadia.
In a projection of India's growing maritime prowess, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday addressed the top naval commanders onboard the country's first indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant in the Arabian Sea and witnessed a mega wargame, amid China's increasing military posturing in the Indian Ocean region.
Aaditya Thackeray on Wednesday sought to distance himself from the strident "anti-migrant" stance that the Shiv Sena, founded by his late grandfather Bal Thackeray, has often been accused of.
After the notorious gangster Vikas Dubey was killed on Friday morning, the families of the policemen who were killed in the Kanpur encounter on July 3 expressed relief.
Indian sportspersons will be in action in the following events at 28th Olympic Games in Athens.
He also held another meeting with a delegation of civil society organisations as part of his outreach and they expressed their commitment to peace and assured that they would work for restoring normalcy in Manipur.
The NCSC directed that action be taken against concerned police officials for not registering a case in this regard.
Tucked away at a lane in Arehalli Guddadahalli, a small village in Bengaluru Rural district is a nondescript factory of LaundryMate, one of India's first organised technology-led online laundry services firms. The company has built the country's largest laundry facility, which is spread across 53,000 square feet - the size of a football field. Inside the hangar-like building, one can hear the whooshing and humming sound of big hi-tech washing machines being operated by the newly-recruited staff of LaundryMate.
A Jamshedpur court on Friday issued an arrest warrant against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray, the second such warrant by a Jharkhand court in the past one year, after he failed to appear in the court on Thursday in connection with a case of making allegedly provocative comments against members of a particular community about a year ago.On May 16, the Jharkhand high court directed the MNS chief to appear in the lower court in Jamshedpur on June 12.
Banned Students Islamic Movement of India chief Safdar Hussein Nagori on Monday admitted before police officials that a meeting of important leaders of the outfit took place at Ujjain just before the Mumbai train blasts, which claimed a large number of lives. However, Indore range Inspector General Anil Kumar told reporters that it is too early for the investigating team to establish whether the particular meeting took place to plot the Mumbai train blasts.
Thirteen top leaders of the banned Student's Islamic Movement of India, who were arrested in Indore, had come to the city to finalise the training programme of its cadres, the police said on Friday. The leaders had been residing in Indore for over a month, a police official said, adding that the police have recovered news clippings from them relating to the Mumbai train blasts. The police was now trying to expose their local network.
The Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday ordered a halt to the demolition drive in violence-hit Nuh and asked if it was an "exercise of ethnic cleansing".
Bumrah dismissed Ollie Pop to go past the record of Kapil Dev.
While there is no mention of how many people have been converted, local BJP leader Deepak Sharma claimed that more than 100 people living from Mangatapuram Colony had allegedly been converted to Christianity.
But SRK's heavily bandaged look is making Sukanya Verma think about all the crazy, funny ways Bollywood has treated a means of dressing an injury.
As for the Kargil martyrs, the lives of their kith and kin were dashed to pieces for ever. The nation cannot repay the debt we owe to them, but the least we can do is to salute these valiant men for their personal sacrifice to preserve our territorial integrity, says MP Anil Kumar on the occasion of Vijay Divas
Modi will unfurl the national flag and deliver the customary address to the nation from the ramparts of the historic monument.
'Hoist now with its own petard, Pakistan has hopelessly snared itself in this vortex of jihad-inspired violence. You reap what you sow.'
The time is ripe for reduction of troops in a phased manner and moving the rest of the army units on internal security remit to the Line of Control.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashwi Yadav on Friday addressed a joint political rally, the first since the two erstwhile rivals buried the hatchet and aligned nearly four months ago.
The stars Pradeep Bandekar spotted over the weekend.
A Hajipur court has issued non-bailable arrest warrants against the 10 persons accused of lynching 10 suspected thieves in Bihar's Vaishali district, police sources said on Saturday.
His name was cleared by a three-member selection panel headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and comprising Chief Justice of India Jagdish Singh Khehar and Congress leader in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge as members.
Three more Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad activists were arrested on Wednesday for alleged involvement in professor H S Sabharwal's murder, taking the total number of arrests in the case to five.
A leaking gas cylinder caused the fire, which killed Sarika (Rajaiah's daughter-in-law) and her three sons - Abhinav, Ayan, Sriyan.
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