Later, it emerged during the initial investigation that it was buffalo meat.
Three terrorists attempted a forced entry into the hotel. A guard at the entrance challenged them after which the terrorists opened fire and killed him, the army's media wing Inter-Services Public Relations said.
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A blast inside Parimpora police station complex left five policemen including the station house officer seriously injured on Monday afternoon.
Yadav, a former Uttar Pradesh chief minister, was slated to travel to Kannuaj, around 125 km from the Uttar Pradesh capital, for a tractor rally as part of the 'Kisan Yatra' in support of farmers protesting against the Centre's new agri laws and the 'Bharat Bandh' called by them on Tuesday.
At least five persons are feared drowned after a boat in which they were crossing Saryu River in Bahraich capsized, police said on Tuesday.
Markaz Nizamuddin, which is the international headquarters of Tabilghi Jamaat for close to 100 years, offered its premises for setting up a quarantine facility.
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'Caste-based power politics made him think that he can get away with murder.'
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.
The child, whose parents work as labourers in a factory, was beaten and brutalised with a sharp object. She is critical and on oxygen support, said a senior doctor at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences where she is admitted.
David Miller bludgeoned his way to a sensational 38-ball 101 as Kings XI Punjab pulled off a dramatic six-wicket win over Royal Challengers Bangalore in their Pepsi IPL match, in Mohali, on Monday.
The victim has been diagnosed with cancer. She was also forced to consume abortion pills by the perpetrators.
An Indian national, who went missing in Pakistan's restive northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province in 2012, was taken away by intelligence agencies from a police station before his disappearance, police has said.
"At about 9.15 pm, a police party at Mirgund in Pattan signalled a cab to stop but two militants inside the vehicle started firing, which was retaliated," a police official said.
An Indian-origin England Under-19 women's hockey player, who had lodged a complaint against Indian captain Sardara Singh of sexual harassment, appeared before the special investigating team set up by the Ludhiana Police Commissioner Parmraj Singh on Wednesday.
A 16-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped, drugged and raped in a car by a youth, police said on Monday.
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"Asaram Bapu was booked under Section 323 of IPC (voluntarily causing hurt) on the complaint of cameraperson Sachin Kumar," SHO of Kavi Nagar police station Sudhir Kumar Tyagi said.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on a historic visit to Egypt, has narrowly escaped being hit by shoes hurled at him -- a grave insult in the Arab world.
Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy on Monday condemned Dravida Munettra Kazhagam chief M Karunanidhi for his 'outrageous' remarks against Indo-Sri Lanka relations at a pro-Eelam Tamil Eelam Supporters Organisation meet.
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Two youths from the northeast were allegedly attacked by eight persons at Sikanderpur, police said on Thursday.
Joining a list of leaders who made controversial remarks following the Delhi gangrape incident, Samajwadi Party leader Abu Azmi on Tuesday said women should not go out with men other than relatives and agreed with RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's view that most rapes take place in cities and not villages.
Zee News editor Sudhir Chaudhary, facing notice from the police to join probe after the channel aired the interview of December 16 gang-rape victim's male friend, on Satutday moved a Delhi court pleading that his statement to the police be video recorded.
Cases related to sexual assault and other crimes against women continued to pour in twin states of Punjab and Haryana including those allegedly involving cops, even as police claimed to have become "over sensitive" to gender-related offences in the wake of Delhi gangrape episode.
Section 156(3) IPC empowers a magistrate to direct police to file an FIR.
Delhi Police has been directed by a court in New Delhi to register an FIR in a complaint filed by a medico against BJP MP Maneka Gandhi and others for forcibly taking away his eight pet dogs from his residence.
A senior police official, who had visited Dr Rajesh Talwar's house after the murder of teenaged girl Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj, on Wednesday deposed before a special Central Bureau of Investigation court in Ghaziabad.
Former Manchester United hero Cristiano Ronaldo scored the winner against his old club to give Real Madrid a 2-1 victory at Old Trafford and a place in the Champions League quarter-finals on Tuesday.
Khan, 37, was injured in the terror attack and later flown to Delhi in an air ambulance for specialised treatment. However, he succumbed to injuries at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
A 12-year-old middle school student in California has been detained for plotting to shoot 23 classmates and a teacher as officials seized a cache of rifles and handguns from his home.
Aazad reached Shaheen Bagh a day after his bail conditions were relaxed. Addressing a massive gathering, the Dalit leader said the CAA is a 'black law' that is dividing people on religious lines.
The additional district judge (ADJ) said one such loophole was that their names were not in the statements given by Pehlu Khan and other complainants.
Pailan Arrows took Sporting Clube de Goa by surprise, scoring a solitary goal victory in a seventh round I-League match, at the Nehru stadium, in Fatorda, Goa, on Friday. Narayan Das scored the only goal of the match in the second session.
Indian rupee is the world's most undervalued currency, says The Economist.
Intelligent Business Research Services analyst Guy Cranswick said that launching BlackBerry 10 and the upcoming z10 was RIM's 'last best chance to appear as a real player in the Australian market, as well as in the US, UK, and Europe.'
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