Nigerian militants on Wednesday released an Indian and five other crew members of a chemical tanker, who were abducted more than two weeks ago off the restive oil-rich Niger Delta region.
IDF, however, clearly stated that its war was against terror group Hamas and not against the people of Gaza.
The 19-year-old Miram Taron of Jido Village in Upper Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh was found missing on January 18.
Azad Gandhi is one of the three accused along with former Bihar minister Surendra Yadav and Pappu Yadav, also an MLC.
The assault on the daughter of an MLA and her friend at Mangalore has taken a new turn with the Democratic Youth Federation of India claiming responsibility behind the incident.
The Orissa assembly witnessed pandemonium scenes for the second day on Friday over the abduction of Malkangiri District Collector R V Krishna with the opposition and treasury bench members virtually clashing in the Speaker's podium. The uproar erupted as soon as the House assembled for the day for question hour.
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has ordered a probe into the matter.
Rajasthan Police has denied the allegation of a woman who said her full-term pregnant daughter-in-law lost her child after she was assaulted by it during a raid at her house.
Half a dozen people have been detained for interrogation in connection with the death of two Muslim men whose bodies were found in a car in Haryana after they were allegedly abducted by cow vigilantes, according to police.
As Shyam Benegal turns 89 on December 14, Subhash K Jha takes a look at 10 of his best films and tells you where you can watch them.
He wants his wife, who has left home and filed for divorce, to return.
Taking a serious view of the alleged abduction of Gonda district's chief medical officer by a minister, the Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday shifted top district officials including the district magistrate, the superintendent of police and the CMO and handed over the probe to the divisional commissioner.
An eight-year-old girl, who was sleeping outside her hut, was allegedly abducted and raped by a youth in outer Delhi's Kirari area, police said on Tuesday.
Family members were overjoyed when the three Tamils and a Maharashtrian, abducted by gunmen in Nigeria, were released on Tuesday morning.
The High Commission is facilitating safety of the remaining 40 Indians in the state and their movement.
Seven men who allegedly barged into a hotel room and attacked an interfaith couple during their stay in Haveri district of Karnatka have been charged with gangrape after the victim complained that she was sexually assaulted by them, the police said on Friday.
Former India spinner and Rajya Sabha MP Harbhajan Singh has demanded "capital punishment" for all those who were involved in the heinous crime of parading two Manipuri women naked and allegedly gang-raping them.
Dr Pankaj Gupta, a leading paediatrician and member of a leading business family in Gaya, and his wife Shubhra Gupta were returning home from Giridih in Jharkhand where they traveled to attend a wedding last Friday, May 1, when they went missing.
Tension mounted in the hills of Manipur after a video from May 4 surfaced on Wednesday showing two women from one of the warring communities being paraded naked by a few men from the other side, officials said in Imphal on Wednesday.
A 16-year-old girl was abducted and gang raped for 20 days allegedly by four persons who also tried to sell her to human traffickers in Nepal, a senior police officer said.
A 23-year-old physiotherapy intern, who came to be known as "Nirbhaya (the fearless one)", was raped and assaulted by six men inside a bus in south Delhi on December 16, 2012, before being thrown out of the moving vehicle.
With the Maoists continuing to elude the police dragnet, combing operations to trace the three policemen abducted by the Naxals were on Saturday expanded to fresh areas in Bihar's Banka, Kaimur, Jamui, Munger and Lakhisarai districts.
The India-US joint statement after the 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue called for the immediate release of all remaining hostages.
Even 24 hours after the district chief medical officer of Gonda was allegedly abducted and kept in confinement by a minister of the Samajwadi Party government, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav continued to remain silent on the issue.Even top officials of his government were tightlipped on the issue, though many believe that action against the minister would send a strong message about the intentions of the SP government.
The Uttar Pradesh government has ordered a high-level inquiry into the alleged abduction of the chief medical officer of Gonda S P Singh by minister of state for revenue and rehabilitation.
'When there was no crime committed, everything had to be fabricated. They see it as a war, and everything is fair in love and war.'
The kidnapping and subsequent killing of the four foreign hostages has attracted fresh attention following the recent release of a book 'The Meadow, Kashmir 1995 -Where the terror began' and the revelations made therein.
Eighty-two-year Nirmala Kumari, the mother of National Hydroelectric Power Corporation general manger, Anil Kumar Agarwal who was abducted at gunpoint by Bodo militants in Assam, on Friday made a passionate appeal to the abductors to release her son on humanitarian ground.
The 24-year-old Snapdeal employee who went missing on Wednesday said that she was abducted by four men at knife point while she was on her way back home in an auto-rickshaw.
Two abducted Indian engineers working with Indorama company in Rivers state of Nigeria have been released after 25 days in captivity
RJD candidate from Maneka constituency in the poll-bound Jharkhand Ramchandra Singh and his aide were on Friday kidnapped by suspected naxalites in Latehar's Dhanukua village.
As the hostage crisis involving abducted Sukma Collector Alex Paul Menon entered the eighth day on Saturday, mediators from the rebel side left for Tadmetla forests apparently to brief Maoists on talks they had with the Chhattisgarh government on their demands for releasing the IAS officer. N Baijendra Kumar, principal secretary to Chief Minister Raman Singh, told PTI that the mediators, who have held two rounds of talks with the government-appointed interlocutors.
The Chhattisgarh government on Wednesday appealed to the Maoists for the extension of their deadline for the release of Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon, who was abducted last Saturday.
The Chhattisgarh government on Tuesday named two former chief secretaries as its nominees for talks with Naxals for release of abducted Sukma Collector Alex Paul Menon even as activists -- Prashant Bhushan and Manish Kunjam -- declined to mediate on behalf of the Maoists.
About three men and five women escaped and ran to nearby jungles and reached Dornapal relief camp and then informed the police.
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