The police claimed that Altaf, 22, had strangulated himself using a string from his jacket hood in the washroom of the police lock-up and said five policemen have been suspended for negligence in the wake of the incident on Tuesday.
At least 12 passengers were killed and two others missing after a Maharashtra state transport bus fell into the Narmada river from a bridge in Madhya Pradesh's Dhar district on Monday, officials said.
The Union home ministry on Wednesday directed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to take over the investigation of 'brutal murder' of a tailor in Udaipur and probe involvement of any organisation and international links.
Violence broke out on Sunday near Kallakurichi as protesters demanding justice over the death of a girl student went on a rampage setting fire to vehicles and indulged in stone pelting, in which police personnel also became the target.
The Bharatiya Janata Party, however, termed the autopsy report of the 17-year-old girl, who was the sister of a BJP activist, a 'cover-up' and reiterated its demand for an impartial probe into the incident. The ruling Trinamool Congress accused the BJP of trying to 'make an issue out of a non-issue'.
Addressing the Sena workers in Mumbai for the second consecutive day, he also said that doors of the state and party are closed for the rebels MLAs.
It was Rahul Tripathi, who eventually saved his team the blushes with a six off Ravichandran Ashwin in the final over, which sealed KKR a place in the final against Chennai Super Kings.
Suffering from Parkinson's disease and a host of other medical ailments, Swamy, who was then 83-year-old, was remanded to judicial custody following his arrest.
The Singapore doctor who carried out the postmortem of the 23-year-old gangrape victim will be included as a witness by the Delhi Police in the 50-page chargesheet in the case to be filed before a fast-track court on Thursday.
The girl was allegedly repeatedly assaulted before being killed at a village in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district in January.
A week after being pulled up over leak of Geetika Sharma's postmortem report in the media, the Delhi police on Tuesday told a court they were still inquiring into the source and was granted time till September 21 to file a detailed report in the matter.
The much-hyped liquor ban in the state has been widely seen as a failed attempt five years after its introduction.
The 27-year-old rickshawpuller, who lived in Brijpuri, was killed in the riots on last Tuesday, as he stepped out of his home to buy milk for his kids.
The jawan is the third army personnel to die in Pakistani firing and shelling on forward posts and villages in the twin districts of Poonch and Rajouri this month.
While Mahipal's family is blaming the death on vaccination, the authorities cited an autopsy report to say that he suffered from a cardiac disease.
Two deep cut marks were found on his neck and the stabbing was centred between jaws and chest.
The heart and stomach were missing as they had been taken out during the first autopsy conducted at Jinnah Hospital in Lahore.
Rejecting the suicide theory of police, family members of Deputy Chief Medical officer Y S Sachan, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances, on Friday demanded that a case of murder be lodged.
Police cited the final post-mortem report that said Ansari died due to cardiac arrest.
Chaitanya was working in Cognizant Technologies on a Southeast Airlines project.
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.
There is "dictatorship" in India now with politicians not being allowed to visit Uttar Pradesh to meet the families of the victims of the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, Rahul said.
The Department of Tourism said that a five-member committee has been formed to investigate if the resort was following the standards set by the government.
Setting at rest the controversy that slain Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare died because of defective bulletproof jacket, the postmortem report has revealed that he received five bullets in and around his neck.
A day after a Bharatiya Janata Party delegation met President Ram Nath Kovind seeking dismissal of the Mamata Banerjee government over the "political murder" of a party MLA, the West Bengal chief minister wrote a latter to him claiming the saffron party might have presented "distorted facts".
As the mother still lay still, he wobbles away from her, announcements continuing in the background about the arrival and departure of trains that would bring in tens of thousands of people in a rush to get away from hunger and hardship they face in large cities that could sustain them no more.
They did not even inform the boy's parents who live in Hapur.
Dave, who was the bureau chief of a Gujarati newspaper called Jai Hind, was stabbed at 9 pm, while he was writing a story.
Two men from her village have been arrested. National Security Act will be invoked against the accused.
Sadly, Rahul and Akshaye lose both their parents within 18 months.
Reuters' Pakistan bureau chief Maria Golovnina, had three marks on her neck and had died due to blockage in her respiratory tract.
The committee said there was no operational coordination among veterinary professionals and the team which killed the tigress on November 2 in Yavatmal and that the dart for tranquillising the feline was fired unauthorisedly.
The passengers were on their way from Vikasnagar in Uttarakhand to Tuni and the accident took place on the Uttarakhand-Himachal border in Himachal territory.
The state government submitted the first post-mortem report of 20 people, who were killed in police firing in Seshachalam forests of Chittoor district on April 7.
A handwritten note in Punjabi, purportedly left behind by the deceased, says he was unable to bear the "pain of farmers".
At least 14 people were killed when a Bolero car carrying them was rammed by a speeding Bhopal-Howrah train in Jharkhand in the wee hours of Tuesday morning.
PRatyusha Banerjee committed on April 1, 2016.
Following the postmortem at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, police on Thursday registered a case of murder and transferred it to the Crime Branch for investigation, a senior officer said.
The constable, a resident of Sonipat in Haryana, was posted at the Bharat Nagar Police Station in northwest Delhi, police said. He lived with a colleague at a rented house in Gandhi Vihar area.
Union minister Gopinath Munde's liver was ruptured in the road accident and he suffered a cardiac arrest due to shock, as per preliminary post-mortem report by a team of doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi.
