During scrutiny of over 24,000 and 8,000 applications filed for rehabilitation by the displaced Muslims in Kokrajhar and Chirang respectively, the administration found that 7,000 and 6,000 people had no land documents. He is a look at life in some of the camps
Going beyond the tiger fixation at Pench National Park.
Additional Director General Intelligence SB Shiradkar had Friday submitted a report on the violence.
In an interview with rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah says that the state will see a lot of change. "I am here to do my work and put the state back on track," he says.
A Christian family in Bangladesh was on Tuesday attacked by unidentified miscreants who hurled crude bombs at their house, injuring at least two persons, amid growing incidents of deadly assaults on minorities in the country.
Modi stressed his government has created a 'security cover' to ensure good heath of children and mothers during the past 55 month of his rule.
Shahjahanpur bore the maximum brunt of the weather's onslaught on Saturday, as six people were killed in incidents of lightning strike, while seven were injured.
The beef ban has sparked considerable debate and confusion
Insisting that the cow should be protected, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said that even the Mughals were aware of the fact that if they had to rule then an "open support to cow slaughter" would not be feasible while the Britishers failed to understand this aspect.
The RJD leader said, "I had told my parents that I did not wish to marry at this moment of time. But nobody listened to me. Ours was a mismatch. I am a simple man with simple habits while she is a modern woman, educated in Delhi and used to life in a metropolis."
On the sweeping plains at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, a group of female wildlife rangers is making history by defying patriarchal norms.
On Friday, he clarified that he was referring to Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh where no such incident had taken place. "We do not justify anarchy and hooliganism," he said, adding that the incident in Alwar did take place and an FIR has been registered against six persons.
Blood splattered compounds, smashed window panes and demolished roofs are all that are left of houses in border hamlets which have been battered in Pakistani shelling in the last four days. A smell of gunpowder lingers in these villages whose residents are living in increasing fear. In all, 12 people, including five security personnel, have been killed and over 60 others injured in Pakistani firing from across the border in Jammu since Thursday.
Five other civilians injured as Pak troops shelled border out posts along the IB.
Crocodile Mick was taught all about crocodile hunting from his stepfather and mentor German Jack.
The India hockey ace opted for a camel back instead of a hockey stick to manoeuvre his way through a strong cattle line-up at the Pushkar fair.
"She was mercilessly beaten to death when the accused spotted her cutting grass in his field," a police official told rediff.com.
'Isn't it obvious that the BJP government in Jharkand and its police force care two hoots about the Supreme Court's orders?', asks Jyoti Punwani.
The administration and people in draught-hit Marathwada are pinning their hopes on monsoon as only one per cent water is left in the dams of the parched region.
In India the routine cruelty is at a more basic level - the state of our abattoirs, and the animal trauma caused there.
A glacial lake burst on Saturday in the high Himalayan region in northwestern Nepal sweeping away houses, farms, cattles near the tourist resort of Pokhara, killing at least 13 people and leaving 60 missing, including three foreign trekkers.
Mo Yan, who on Thursday won China's first Nobel Prize in Literature, says his literary instincts were spurred by loneliness, when he was forced out of the school by his cruel father and made to graze cattle.
The ruling party sharply countered the comment, saying the Congress had "demeaned and defamed" Hindus of India.
Iranian border guards shot dead six Pakistanis and injured two more after they strayed across the border in southwestern Balochistan province, Pakistani officials said on Friday.
In this two-part series, Dinesh Kumar Mishra highlights the challenges faced by the much abused Bangmati River in Bihar because of solid waste, industrial effluents, encroachment and rampant construction along the river's banks.
'China is mindful of the fact that it is not confronting the Indian Army of 1962. But the sabre rattling will continue.'
"Prime Minister Modi is not a leader, he is an actor. It would have been better if Amitabh Bachchan was made the prime minister," she said at an election meeting at the end of her roadshow in Mirzapur.
Instead of arresting suspects and handing them over to the police for trial, BSF soldiers are often accused of taking the law in their hands, says Syed Tashfin Chowdhury
There was one case of cow-smuggling against Umar at the Govindgarh police station of Alwar, which was registered in 2012.
He said it was due to the degradation of moral values that social evils such as rapes, cow slaughter and other evils are happening in the society.
India should observe October 22 as Kashmir Martyrs Day to pay tribute to those who lost their lives to Paakistan's State terrorism, suggests Brigadier Narender Kumar (retd).
'India, he announced, is a "free, open, inclusive region" committed to the "common pursuit of progress and prosperity".' 'Prosperity yes. But free? Open?' 'Ask the Dalit tanner, the Muslim butcher, the Christian priest who writes pastoral letters.' 'Ask cattle traders of any religion or a Delhiwallah who enjoys a juicy steak.' 'Ask a Muslim who falls in love with a Hindu or vice versa,' says Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
A total of 11 persons have lost their lives following heavy rains in seven districts of Madhya Pradesh in the last five days, state Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said in Bhopal on Monday.
Crops have failed, people don't have jobs and there is no drinking water. Vicky Nanjappa reports on the abysmal reality of drought-hit northern Karnataka
The Haridwar-based firm plans to open around 100 outlets of Paridhan by the end of this fiscal and have a network of around 500 stores by March 2020, mostly on franchise model.
Lutz Bachmann, co-founder of the Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West, has stepped down after online posts surfaced in which he used derogatory language to refer to refugees and posed looking like Adolf Hitler.
Police said the gangster snatched a pistol from one of the policemen injured in the accident and was shot when he opened fire while trying to flee.
Humans are morally responsible for treating animals with love, care and affection, a Delhi court has observed while pulling up an animal welfare centre linked to Union Minister Maneka Gandhi for not properly treating injured oxen lodged there.
He has been given time till Wednesday morning to file his reply as to why no action should be taken against him.
Pricey jet fuel, an over-ambitious expansion plan and a flawed partnership strategy have grounded the Captain's latest venture.
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