CM Yogi Adityanath expressed condolences and directed DGP Sulkhan Singh to immediately follow up on the investigations to nab the culprits.
Nayan Kachrolia was kidnapped for ransom by two persons near his school on Thursday.
Gangster Aziz Reddy alias Baba Reddy was shot dead by the Hyderabad police in the posh Jubilee hills area of the city on Wednesday night. As the policemen closed in on the gang, Reddy and his associates tried to flee. The police asked them to surrender, but Reddy started firing at the police. The police returned the fire and Reddy was killed in the ensuing shootout.The police commissioner said that Reddy was a close associate of Mumbai's underworld don Chhota Rajan.
Militants killed the two cops they had abducted from a village in the North Kashmir frontier district of Kupwara on Thursday.
Deputy Police Superintendent A K Lal said about 40 Maoists activists armed with sophisticated weapons opened fire on Sharma's family. His wife along with an uncle and a bodyguard were killed in the incident, he added.
In an audacious incident, kin of a rape accused tried to chop off the teenage victim's tongue on Thursday in Pratapgarh district in order to prevent her from giving her statement in the court. The crime took place in Jethwara area of the district.
The cracker unit, located in a 12 x 12 feet room, is located in the ground floor of a two-storied building. After school hours, the children of poor and lower middle-class families of the locality worked part-time in the unit under the supervision of three adults. The children were paid Rs 10 for making 100 crackers. The blast occurred due to a wrong mix of chemicals.
With his surrender, the police hope to unearth the racket and investigate the alleged role of some of the politicians from Andhra Pradesh in the scandal.
Islam was released on Saturday after a 10-year jail term.
The incident has triggered protests by party workers who fought a pitched battle with the police.
Younes Abouyaaqoub, a 22-year-old Moroccan national, was killed during an operation in Subirats.
In Jaipur, Rajasthan Home Minister Gulab Chand Kataria said that it was "alright" that some people caught those who were illegally transporting animals but added that "no one has the right to take the law in their own hands".
She was travelling in an Ola cab when unknown persons stopped the vehicle, pulled her out and thrashed her.
The correction was made in the Urdu version of the book Sub Sey Pehlay Pakistan, (Pakistan First) released two days ago.
A camp bed is kept for him and his boots are polished and uniform kept ready every night. The sheets are reportedly crumpled every morning and boots muddy by evening.
Two persons were killed and 13 others injured when an improvised explosive device planted by the banned United Liberation Front of Asom went off in the Upper Assam business hub of Tinsukia town at around 6.20 pm on Saturday.
A 14-year-old girl who was gang-raped allegedly by two youth earlier this month in the neighbouring Raigad district, was also molested by a local Nationalist Congress Party leader on the very same day of the incident, the police said.
Police custody of alleged handler of the most influential pro-Islamic State Twitter account Mehdi Masroor Biswas was extended by 15 days by a court on Thursday.
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Pramod Singh Kushwaha, then the additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) and who headed the investigation team, said each member of the team pitched in to prepare a watertight case against the convicts.
Bangladesh has launched a nationwide manhunt for 400 members of a banned Islamic militant outfit and its allies, suspected to be responsible for Wednesday's serial blasts across the country.
Police said the grenade was thrown from a speeding vehicle, and no one was injured.
Seven members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India have escaped from a prison in Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa district. While jail authorities managed to nab one SIMI member, the rest are still on the run.
Some residents of Nani Daman area alerted the police about suspicious movements of six persons in military uniform on Wednesday, thinking they could be terrorists.
Twelve ultras made the demand at the company's Meghahatuburu\n\nmine in West Singhbhum district in Jharkhand.
The death toll in the Malad hooch tragedy on Saturday climbed to 84 even as the Excise department suspended four of its officials in connection with the incident.
Memon was recently provided security following intelligence reports that the underworld had plans to eliminate him.
Another senior officer of Karnataka CID conducted some preliminary enquiries regarding the possible links the hardline outfit with murder of Kalburgi.
A 16-year-old Class X student was allegedly gang-raped by five persons, including three minors, at gunpoint in Uttam Nagar area of west Delhi. The girl alleged in her complaint that the accused also made an MMS of the act and threatened to upload it on the internet if she revealed her ordeal to any person.
The most strident criticism of UP's anti-conversion ordinance has come from the judiciary with several retired Supreme Court and high court judges having described it as being violative of Article 14 (Right to Equality), 15 (Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion), 21 (Right to Life) and 25 (Freedom of conscience) of the Constitution, points out Rashme Sehgal.
The Supreme Court on Monday took suo motu cognisance of a horrific incident of chopping off the right hands of two migrant labourers from Odisha by a contractor from Andhra Pradesh in December last year.
After two constables were shot dead by unidentified miscreants during a chase in the Ramgarh area in Uttar Pradesh, large protests erupted in the state on Monday.
A 25-year-old woman allegedly went missing after taking an autorickshaw from the metro station in Vaishali area in Ghaziabad.
A Bangladeshi-Canadian was on Saturday identified as the mastermind of Bangladesh's worst terror attack at a cafe in Dhaka.
British police ambushed the gang which raided a warehouse containing bullion and bank notes.
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