With the cricket World Cup mood building up, bookies and punters across India have taken their positions. Sources involved in betting, who did not want to be identified, fearing police action, estimate a turnover of about Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion).
Thirty-two persons have been arrested in connection with the alleged gang rape of three women of the boy's family, which took place as a retaliatory measure on July 8, the police added.
An Istanbul-bound Turkish Airlines flight from Bangkok with 157 passengers and crew on board landed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi under emergency conditions following a bomb scare but was cleared for take-off after the security agencies did not find any explosive.
Marathas, a politically influential community that constitutes around 30 per cent of the state's population, have been demanding 16 per cent reservation in government jobs and education.
'If a Delhi University professor's rights can be violated so easily, then think about what the rest of the population, with even lesser means, has to suffer under the State.'
In Nagpur Central Jail's 'Anda Cell' languishes a 90% disabled, ailing, professor, sentenced to life imprisonment for Maoist links.
'Force One,' the specialised commando battalion raised after the Mumbai attacks, will be deployed as part of the tight security arrangements being made for the winter session of the Maharashtra Legislature, commencing in Nagpur from Tuesday.
The airline had earlier issued a 'non-acceptance order' to all its station managers and booking offices.
Samuels and 19-year-old Trinidad all rounder Kieron Pollard were both named in a 15-man squad announced on Thursday.
The apex court questioning the police about the arrests said that 'dissent is the safety valve of democracy and if you don't allow these safety valves, it will burst.'
The statement comes in the aftermath of the Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel's resignation.
Kripalu Maharaj, whose ashram witnessed a stampede killing 63 people, fled from the complex two hours after the tragedy and is untraceable, a district official said on Friday.
In such big cases, approver makes the task easier to prove someone guilty in the court of law, says M N Singh.
It was initially reported that the car in which the girl's body was found belonged to Gadkari. However, the Kotwali police in Nagpur, which investigated the case, said that the car was not owned by the BJP president, but by his former personal assistant.
Two more persons died at Government Medical College hospital in Nagpur on Saturday, taking the toll in the passenger train collision to 57.
The issue of sacking Director General of Police A N Roy triggered the noisy scenes in ongoing Maharashtra Assembly session today in Nagpur, leading to house adjournment twice.
Vijay Damodar Dhule (30), a CRPF driver, used a colleague's carbine.
Sunita Vasudeo (18) of village Saunsar and Deepu Gohe (8) and his sister Sonam Gohe (11), both residents of Barbatpur, were crossing a railway bridge over Machna river, the police said.
The 606 positive cases includes 43 foreign nationals, the ministry said. On Tuesday, the number of cases was 519.
Eighteen Shiv Sainiks were arrested in Pune on Monday after they allegedly beat up some Maharashtra State Electricity Board employees.
After yoga guru Baba Ramdev was banned from conducting programmes in Himachal on Monday and booked in Maharashtra and Rajasthan under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes Atrocities Act for his honeymoon remarks targeting targeting Rahul Gandhi, the yoga guru said he would move the courts against the curbs.
The Supreme Court on Friday termed as a "serious matter" the issue of alleged mysterious death of special Central Bureau of Investigation judge B H Loya, who was hearing the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case, and sought response from the Maharashtra government on pleas seeking an independent probe into it.
Syria has taken four Indian youth in its custody, who were planning to the join terrorist outfit Islamic State, and asked the Indian authorities the verify their details.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Chief Mohan Bhagwat has been extended top category 'Z+' security cover with the commandos of CISF having been tasked with the job.
Mumbai Marathi Patrakar Sangh refuses to 'retreat in the face of threats'.
The letter says Maoists want to assassinate Modi the way former PM Rajiv Gandhi was killed, say Maharashtra CM and the state police.
"All of us can feel the pain of families of the Pulwama martyrs. We understand your anger," Modi said.
Here's a recap of the events from the past 24 hours.
Indrani is clearly in charge in her little corner. She is speaking rapidly to a not-very-tall, pot-bellied, balding man, whom she repeatedly, decisively, asks, "Have you understood?" The tone is that of a boss talking to an employee. The words "cheque" and "two lakhs" float by.
Incidents of arson, firing and vandalism were reported from Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Punjab as protesters agitated against the dilution of the SC/ST Act.
The apex court also rejected the plea to appoint a Special Investigation Team for probe.
Strident Hindutva has not been the Shivraj Singh Chouhan's hallmark in his long tenure as chief minister. What has changed?
In just 10 days, the city received 864.5 mm rain, which is nearly equal to what it gets in an entire month.
The SC refused to stay a criminal contempt notice issued by the Bombay HC against author Arundhati Roy for an article questioning the incarceration of DU professor G N Saibaba.
"I am being targeted for a decade-old case, there is an attempt to suppress my voice. Rajasthan Police team came to arrest me. Someone told me plan was being made to kill me in an encounter," the VHP president claimed.
With the United Progressive Alliance government likely to announce a separate Telangana state on Tuesday, the call for carving out Vidarbha state out of Maharashtra has started gaining heat.
The April 11 polling will decide the fate of several political bigwigs.
With SIMI leader Vakar-ul-hasan Muzaffar Hussain in Nagpur Central Jail after his arrest at New Delhi on August 9, 2001, most of the members in the district have been inactive, sources said.
Here's list of a few controversial remarks made by our politicians this year.
In his annual Vijayadashmi address, the RSS chief also spoke about "urban maoism", the Sabarimala row and the need to strengthen the country's borders.
