A week after a Pakistani prisoner was fatally attacked by a fellow inmate inside the Kotbalwal jail in Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir director general prisons Saturday visited the high security jail.
Moderate to high turnout was recorded in 13 assembly constituencies across seven states where bypolls were held on Wednesday amid sporadic incidents of violence in Uttarakhand, Bihar and West Bengal.
An Opposition Congress member on Tuesday climbed on the Speaker's podium in the Orissa assembly demanding Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's resignation.
No statement has been recorded by the accused police officer, GL Singhal, in the Ishrat Jahan case under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code, sources have told rediff.com
Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa takes a re-look at the controversial case.
Mihir Tanna, Associate Director, S K Patodia & Associates, answers your tax queries.
Prolific and passionate, Omji's cinema is far more valuable than we think.
At the core of Nitish Kumar's decision was a cold political calculation. He assessed that the RJD's support base was unlikely to vote for JD-U candidates in the Lok Sabha polls. He was unsure of winning even half a dozen if he stayed with the RJD and the Congress.
The matter was mentioned for urgent hearing before a bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha, which took it up on board.
The depth and reach of the classic Indian film's remixed version stuns Aseem Chhabra.
President Droupadi Murmu conferred 26 Shaurya Chakras (seven posthumous) to personnel of the armed forces, Central Armed Police Forces and state/Union Territory Police during a defence investiture ceremony.
Clashes erupted between Muslims and Buddhists at Bodh Kharboo in Kargil area after some unidentified persons tore off pages of the holy book in a mosque there.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday named its candidates for assembly bypolls in several states, fielding six disqualified MLAs of the Himachal Pradesh assembly in the state days after they joined the party after leaving the Congress.
The interim magisterial inquiry report and the MCD Karol Bagh zone superintending engineer report were submitted to revenue minister Atishi who alleged that the "bureaucracy" was showing "laxity" in investigating the death of the civil services aspirants.
Bollywood stars are clearly missing work, evident by the way they post pictures from various film and photoshoots on social media.
Bhandari, a three-term Congress legislator who was also a minister in the state in the past, joined the BJP in the presence of its senior leaders, including Union Minister Piyush Goyal and the party's national general secretary Dushyant Kumar Gautam.
The young couple will tie the know early next year.
'When he was sidelined in the INDIA bloc, it was was the turning point because it badly hurt Nitish's ambition.' 'After that, he decided to damage INDIA by changing sides.'
The CBI had on Tuesday raided at least 14 places in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, including the house of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's principal secretary, after obtaining warrants from a court.
He was administered the oath of office by Governor Rajendra Arlekar at the Raj Bhavan in Patna.
Trinamool Congress members and some from the Congress trooped in the Well of the House raising slogans demanding a copy of the report.
A top Madhya Pradesh policeman on Tuesday shocked his audience when he hailed Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist arrested during the Mumbai terror attack, as a good role model during his speech. Addressing a training camp in Indore, Inspector General of Police (Special Forces) Rajendra Kumar cited the example of Kasab, 21, to buttress his point about the importance of undergoing a good training. "If you are trained well, you can do anything," he said.
Indian Police Service Officer R K Sharma, the prime suspect in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, has been found guilty by a Delhi court. Five others also have been found guilty for murdering the journalist.
'Reports of the JD-U joining hands with the BJP again is baseless.'
He said the melting glaciers could cause a rise in sea levels which could collapse Greenland and Antarctic ice-sheets. This in turn, he said, could have a disastrous effect on countries like Mauritius and Bangladesh.
Gore, who was US President Bill Clinton's deputy in 2000, made the 2006 Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, after which he was seen as a champion of environmental issues and climate change.
The party fielded Maneka Gandhi from Sultanpur, while Uttar Pradesh minister Jitin Prasada has replaced Varun Gandhi in Pilibhit.
The Indian team finished last in a five-team field to crash out of equestrian cross country after rider Ashish Limaye was eliminated in Hangzhou at the Asian Games.
HCL Infosystems Ltd, an information-enabling company, plans to set up three more career development centres in Gujarat.
We present an excerpt of one of the most touching scenes in Mother India.
The Maoists in Nepal spearheaded by Prachanda today surged ahead in the landmark constituent assembly polls, winning 14 seats and leading in 65 of the remaining 240 constituencies. Prachanda, 53, chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist who led a decade-long insurgency in the country to overthrow the monarchy, defeated his closest rival Rajendra Kumar K.C of the Nepali Congress in Kathmandu.
''Even today, after 63 years, I'm still looking forward to a new release.'
The Nitish Kumar government appeared to be heading for a showdown with Bihar Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar as the Raj Bhavan reversed an order of the state administration to freeze bank accounts of two officials of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University in Muzaffarpur.
Indian residents in the Israeli town of Dimona are having fun playing Raj Kapoor and Vyajanthimala.
The case dates back to August 2017 when the Income Tax department had carried out searches at multiple premises in Delhi as part of its alleged tax evasion probe against Shivakumar, his alleged business associate and liquor trader Sachin Narayan, another associate Sunil Kumar Sharma who operated a fleet of luxury buses, Karnataka Bhawan (Delhi) employee A Hanumanthaiah and former state government employee and caretaker posted at the Karnataka Bhawan Rajendra N.
IPCC, headed by Dr Pachauri, has a team of dedicated scientists from various countries who have won the prize for their pioneering work in the field of environment.
India also said Bangladesh was carrying out a disinformation campaign.
Intel Corporation, the world's biggest chipmaker and HCL on Saturday announced the nationwide launch of Intel-powered classmate PC in India.
