A woman in Jharkhand, India, has been arrested for allegedly murdering her husband and burying his body inside their home. She confessed to the crime after relatives and neighbors grew suspicious.
Kamini Kaushal, who began her career with the 1946 classic Neecha Nagar and went on to act in a host of films right till 2022, passed away in her Mumbai home on Thursday night.
Seventy years after Pather Panchali released on August 26, 1955, we finally get it. Shuttling between the village of Boral and a studio in Calcutta, caught between worrying about the next purse of funds and wondering which item to mortgage next, Satyajit Ray was explaining Indians to themselves, discovers Sreehari Nair.
A resident of Jainabad in the Chinhat area in Lucknow, Mohit Kumar was arrested in connection with a case on Saturday.
Candidates contesting from Kunda (in Pratapgarh), Malhani (in Jaunpur), and Rasara (in Ballia) failed to secure enough votes to prevent forfeiture of their deposits.
From putting up a decent performance in the last Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh winning 10 seats stitching an alliance with arch rival Samajwadi Party, Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party drew a blank in the current general elections, dealing a severe blow to its reputation of representing the voice of Dalits in the state.
Anil Singh, the Unnao MLA, said, "I am with Maharaj-ji (Adityanath)."
After adding 11.7 million workers in the October 2022-September 2023 period from the pandemic lows in April 2021-March 2022, total workers employed in the vast informal sector in India - at 109.6 million - still remains below the pre-pandemic period.
While the Congress top brass has declined an invitation to the January 22 consecration ceremony at the Ram temple in Ayodhya, the party's Uttar Pradesh unit stuck to its plan to offer prayers in the holy city on Makar Sankranti.
Power Ministry said on Wednesday it is working on a legislation to fix more responsibility on the states for the financial health of the electricity boards.
The letter by Singh, who is camping at the Dalit Prerna Sthal in Noida along with his faction members since December 2, came as protestors marked the birth anniversary of former prime minister and farmers' leader Chaudhary Charan Singh.
War of words continued between Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta and Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh over the role of the previous government in encouraging activities of Students Islamic Movement of India in the state, when he was the chief minister.
Madhya Pradesh Assembly was on Tuesday adjourned sine die three days before schedule following ruckus and uproarious scenes created by the opposition Congress demanding resignation of Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta, on the issue of gang rape of a Swiss woman in Datia district.
'It's such a mishmash of wonderful things, so many different cultures, subsections of society and weird histories.'
Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Sunday declared her nephew Akash Anand as her 'uttaradhikari (heir)', a party office-bearer said.
Composer Devan Ekambaram has made a conscious effort to produce a different listening experience with this Tamil album.
"During 1993-2003, when Congress was in power, Madhya Pradesh had become a safe haven for the terrorist and disruptive forces as all the major incidents that took place within the country at that time had direct or indirect links with the state," Gupta told PTI in an interview.
'Every other person I met at the interview was so well prepared and deserving,' says Rhodes Scholar Maya Uma Shankar.
The STF team came under attack from the gang on Sunday night when they were returning after an encounter.
Altogether, 38 other suppliers, including five women, were sentenced to prison terms ranging between two and a half years and five years and a fine of up to Rs 2.75 lakh each.
Lalu is accused in five of the 39 cases related to the scam.
A 71-year-old man, whose dream of starting a business with his life savings got shattered as a bank negligently transferred his money to a stranger, has now been provided relief with the National Consumer Commission asking the Punjab and Sind Bank to pay him Rs 15.5 lakh.
Madhya Pradesh government's official magazine Sandesh, while analysing the personalities, traits and qualities of various state chief ministers has termed saffron leader Uma Bharti's stint of being synonymous to what can be called as "frenzied and uncontrolled politics in the Bharatiya Janata Party".
Opportunistic face of SP has come before the people: Yogi Adityanth.
At present, there are 18 Bahujan Samaj Party MLAs in the 403-member Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly.
The Congress said that the move is meant to keep away candidates who are not serious.
Two cases were on Thursday filed in Bihar seeking sedition charges against AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi for his refusal to chant Bharat Mata Ki Jai.
A visibly upset Shivpal Yadav said, "I was never called to any meeting (of the SP) and no information was given to me."
The 'Pran Pratishtha' of the idol of Ram Lalla -- the childhood form of Lord Ram -- will be attended by people from all walks of life, including representatives of major spiritual and religious sects of the country and of various tribal communities and prominent personalities.
After getting Indian Oil Corporation, the nation's largest oil firm, to drop four independent directors and Engineers India Ltd to boot out two, it is now seeking to sack former Power Secretary P Uma Shankar, chartered accountant S Ravi and former BPCL Chairman R K Singh from the board of ONGC.
The home ministry on Thursday announced the Padma awards which included five Padma Bhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan and 110 Padma Shri.
A search operation was underway on Sunday to trace 18 security personnel who went missing after a fierce gun-battle with Naxals in a forest along the border of Bijapur-Sukma districts in Chhattisgarh, police said.
It is for the second consecutive year that the yatra is not being held due to the pandemic.
While about 8,000 people are in the long list of invitees, the select list features 506 A-listers, including prominent politicians, leading industrialists, top film stars, sportspersons, diplomats, judges and high priests.
She said she will go to Ayodhya on Wednesday and visit the makeshift temple to seek Ram Lalla's blessings.
Speculations were on Thursday rife about the Congress planning to make three-time Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit the party's chief ministerial nominee for next year's assembly election in politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh, once its stronghold.
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