he battle has moved to the small screen and guess who's winning? Urvi Malvania reports.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation court in Lucknow awarded death sentence to three policemen and life term to five others in a 31-year-old fake encounter case in Gonda district in which 13 persons, including a deputy superintendent of police were killed.
Ahead of a ministerial expansion, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday dropped five ministers, including state Finance Minister Prafulla Ghadai, from his cabinet.
The agency says that it is exempted from the Right to Information Act.
The government will not bring down its ownership in public banks.
A fast track court has acquitted three persons in a case relating to the killing of a physically handicapped youth during the 2008 Kandhamal riots.
'This is a dangerous job, as I am at a higher risk of contracting the infection, but I need the job'
Amid simmering tension on the Indo-Pak border, the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) and local police authorities suggested to the ICC that it would be better if matches involving Pakistan in the Women's Cricket World Cup are shifted out of the city.
Former Indian cricketer Krishnamachari Srikkanth is rumoured to participate in the upcoming season of dance reality show Jhalak Dikhlaa Jaa.
Eighteen people, including five women, have died after consuming spurious liquor in Bihar's Bhojpur district in last twenty four hours. Four of them were admitted to a government hospital in critical condition, said the police on Saturday. "The death toll from consuming spurious liquor in Bhojpur rose to 18 on Saturday with 11 more people losing lives," a district police official said.
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An army jawan was Tuesday killed in accidental firing in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, a senior police official said.
Three police personnel of Gadchiroli police were awarded with the President's Police Medal for Gallantry for their outstanding performance in service.
Global payment card brand Visa International would double its debit card business in India from five million to 10 million during the current fiscal, South Asia deputy country manager Uttam Nayak said.
'There is more likelihood of dying from lightning than from vaccine induced blood clots.'
UTI Bank has raised Rs 170 crore through issue of preferential equity to Life Insurance Corporation, CDC and three other investors at a price of Rs 42 per share in the last few months, P J Nayak, chairman, UTI Bank, said on Wednesday.
The former Karnataka minister said the ED has asked him to appear before it in Delhi on Friday by 1 pm and he was considering all legal options.
In the Mumbai game, the spotlight was on Shaw, who proved his mettle, by toying with the Jharkhand attack
India's top payments service provider Financial Technologies-promoted atom technologies, Visa and Reliance group's Reliance Securities have come together to enable 1 million customers of Reliance Securities to make online money transfers to their broking accounts through atom's payment solutions, using any Visa debit card.
An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale hit Pakistan-occupied-Gilgit late on Tuesday night and resultant mild tremors were felt in Doda and Kishtwar districts of Jammu and Kashmir.
Minister Rajesh Munat has filed a complaint against state Congress chief Bhupesh Baghel and senior journalist Vinod Verma for allegedly tarnishing his image through a "fake" sex CD.
In a show strength, he was joined by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and other senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders.
The Congress also fielded Madhusudan Tiwari from Gorakhpur against BJP's actor-turned politician Ravi Kishan.
One more incident of self immolation and another attempted suicide rocked the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh on Monday triggering yet another call for the bandh in the region on Tuesday.
Mouli, a student from Warrangal, Andhra Pradesh, immolated himself on Monday morning to demand a separate state of Telangana. This is the second incident of a student committing suicide in less than 50 hours. B Nayak, a MBA student from Warrangal, committed suicide near the collector's residence on Sunday. Instances of suicides in Telangana region had come down drastically in the last couple of months.
Many claim they fear witch hunts for disagreeing with those in power.
Mumbai Indians today added five cricketers -- Apoorva Wankhede, Sujit Nayak, Rahul Shukla, Kuldeep Yadav and Sushant Marathe -- to their list of players for the fifth season of Indian Premier League, commencing on April 4.
Though the list of superstitious beliefs is long, often dissolving distinctions of class, caste, religion and education, Karnataka's anti-superstition bill is seen as a big step ahead.
The SP said as per preliminary inquiry, the four men had allegedly stolen two cows from a person named Sankat Tanti and were fleeing in an auto van which had no number plate.
Kejriwal was administered the oath of office and secrecy by Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal.
There are two perspectives in the United States government vis-a-vis the imbroglio in South Asia, one of which holds that the problem really is about India-Pakistan relations, and the other is that it's all due to Pakistan's behaviour akin to that of a rogue state.
A high alert has been sounded in all 14 police station areas in Orissa's Kandhamal district following the revelation by an arrested Maoist that an attack by the ultras was being planned. The Maoist, Jagannath Nayak, was arrested from village Kerubadi under Daringbadi police station five days ago. He has told interrogators that 150 Koya Kondh Maoists from neighbouring Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand were being trained in the jungles of Kandhamal for the operation.
It's not just the aam aadmi who has been feeling the corruption heat.
'...are the deep ruts and fissures in the rotting fabric of our cities and the incompetence of elected leaders and administrators,' notes Sunil Sethi.
All the three Union ministers from Telangana, including S Jaipal Reddy, were renominated for Lok Sabha polls as the Congress on Saturday night announced 16 candidates out of a total of 17 from the region which is set to become a separate state.
'Khan Market is useful if not central to our existence,' says Kishore Singh.
The incident occurred due to "signal overshooting" as both the trains started moving in the same direction though signal was given for one to depart Jharsuguda Station, about 110 km, from Rourkela, GRP DSP at Jharsuguda, M K Mahato said.
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