'At the centre of it all is Abhishek Bachchan trying valiantly to pique our curiosity, but simply cannot muster the edginess his Avinash so badly needs,' observes Sukanya Verma.
Three people, including a child, were killed and seven others injured on Sunday in a blast in Rajasthan's Kota city, the police said.
Grieving parents of a three-year-old Indian boy, who died under mysterious circumstances, saw his body at a Melbourne morgue on for the first time, even as Australian investigators are said to be leaning away from the theory that the toddler had fallen victim to a random attack.
'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 principal of a reputed private school in Guwahati has been suspended after a student alleged that he had sexually harassed her.
Those demonstrating alleged inadequate services by the hospital and negligence by politicians.
Swine flu continued its surge with four more persons, including a three-year-old child, dying of the pandemic, taking the nationwide toll due to the deadly virus to 93, even as 139 fresh cases were detected on Friday across the country. While the deadly contagion claimed three lives in Karnataka with two dying in Bangalore and one in Bijapur, another person succumbed to the virus at Nasik in Maharashtra.
The banking, financial services and insurance sector was the most targeted by scamsters, says Indeevar Krishna, head, operations and customer service, Max Life Insurance
In a new twist to Badaun gang rape and murder case, Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police A L Banerjee on Saturday said rape of one of the two girls, who were found hanging from a tree, was not confirmed by forensic experts and that property could be a motive for the gruesome crime.
Director R Balki tells us what to expect in Paa.
In Nepal, where more than 7,500 people were killed and hundreds of thousands left homeless by the earthquake, therapeutic medical clowning is being used as an integrated component of care for adult and pediatric patients and their families.
'With doctors going up against a seemingly invincible enemy, often at immense risk to their lives, the myths reveal an interesting relationship between the men of medicine and the rest of humankind,' notes Arundhuti Dasgupta.
WhatsApp hoax triggers lynching of two others in Maharashtra's Aurangabad.
Eleven people, including a child and four women, were killed on Sunday when a 20-foot-high compound wall adjacent to their huts collapsed in Tiruvallur district in Tamil Nadu even as Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa ordered a special investigation team probe into the Porur building crash that claimed 61 lives.
A Bihar court on Thursday awarded 10 years imprisonment to Praduman Kumar, locally known as 'Father Teressa', head of Lok Seva Ashram, an orphanage in village Chakwaja under Patedhi Belsar block in Vaisali district, for sexually abusing children.
With the death of nine children on Thursday, as many as 15 more kids have succumbed due to encephalitis during the past three days.
'With increasing numbers of juveniles committing heinous crimes, we believe such juveniles must go into the adult system and be punished,' Minister Maneka Gandhi tells Rashme Sehgal.
The lynching was allegedly sparked by suspicions that the victims were child lifters.
A man opened fire at a suburban home in Houston on Thursday, killing four of his children as well as two adults and then surrendered to the police following a lengthy standoff in an incident that authorities say was triggered by a domestic dispute.
Indian-origin parents of a 19-month-old baby, who died of severe head injuries after his babysitter got angry and dumped him on the floor, have been arrested and charged in the US state of Connecticut.
The salient features of the new OTT/social media policy announced by the Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar on February 25, 2021.
A United Nations body has demanded justice for the families of the young girls raped and killed in Uttar Pradesh, saying there can be no justification for such "unspeakable crimes" against girls and women and "certainly no impunity" for those who commit such acts.
Lori Alhadeff, who lost her 14-year-old daughter, asked how a gunman is allowed to enter schools and questioned what security was in place to stop it.
Siddhesh Jagtap, a Zee TV L'IL Champs contender from Indore, suffers from short term memory loss.
The incident comes days after a 19-year-old college student was allegedly gang-raped in Bhopal, which triggered public outrage against the police.
Rediff readers share why they support the breastfeeding campaign.
The blaze started on the second floor of the Arpit Palace Hotel in the heart of the national capital around 3.30 am, trapping many guests who were in deep sleep.
'By the time actual action began, it was already too late.' 'The virus was raging.'
Team hotels had gone into lockdown after last night's terror attack here, the International Cricket Council (ICC) revealed today, saying it will review security at the ongoing Champions Trophy 'in line with the threat levels'.
'I will always remember her as a very beautiful human being.' 'God seems to summon such people a little quickly.'
The man, a 27-year-old Swiss citizen, carried out the attack on a train travelling in Switzerland's far east, along its border with Liechtenstein, and was also injured.
BJP MP Hema Malini on Wednesday blamed the father of the four-year-old girl for the child's death in the road accident involving the actress' Mercedes.
In a shocking case of brutality, a six-year-old Dalit girl was beaten up and scolded by police officials for allegedly stealing Rs 280 from a woman. The incident happened on Monday when Komal, the victim, had gone to a market near Lohamandi in Jaswantpur area.
When the hearings resume January 3, you wonder how many things will change and how many things will remain forever the same, as the Sheena Bora trial moves ahead.
Rescuers were working through the night to pull survivors from the rubble and "won't slow down".
Thousands of people were evacuated and 27 people were reported killed after the typhoon Hagupit hit Philippines' south-east on the weekend. The typhoon caused landslides, pummelled houses and stirred up gusts of 170 kph across the country's central islands.
The notices were issued on Tuesday after damage of nearly Rs 25 lakh was assessed across the district by the police and the administration.
Here's a recap of events that occurred in India in the past 24 hours.
An eight-month-old baby admitted to district hospital in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh died on Wednesday after a rickshaw-puller allegedly gave him an injection and police has registered a first information report against three persons in this connection.
Viswanathan Anand, shared his thoughts with Careers360 when he came to Delhi to play in the national chess tournament organised by NIIT.
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