This week's digest of stories that are weird and crazy!
Bollywood singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya and jewellery designer Farah Khan Ali had made insensitive remarks about people sleeping on the pavements.
An anonymous call claiming that a bomb had been planted in the campus of software major Infosys sent the police into a tizzy but it turned out be a hoax, less than a week after a similar incident at Wipro.
Here's your weekly digest of the craziest stories from around the world.
Was Kerkar duped by his employees, as he claims, or did a cocktail of greed, poor cost control and bad management bring the travel firm down, wonder Pavan Lall and Aneesh Phadnis.
Both the buildings have been evacuated. Sniffer dogs and a bomb disposal squad have been pressed into service.\n\n\n\n\n\n
An Indian man, left partially paralysed when he was slammed to the ground by an American police officer, recounted his ordeal as he took the witness stand in a US court.
These images from across the globe tell that it is a crazy world out there.
White House condemns attempted attacks; New York Police Department increase patrols at other major newsrooms.
After questioning him for four hours in the morning, Chidambaram was taken to a special court in Delhi which sent him to CBI custody till Monday.
World soccer great Diego Armando Maradona, who died on Wednesday less than a month after his 60th birthday, was worshipped like a god for his genius with the ball, but his demons almost destroyed him.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy announced an ex gratia payment of Rs 1 crore each to the kin of those killed in the incident.
Two buildings in Delhi's busy ITO area, Ghulab Bhavan and Milap Bhavan, were evacuated following a call that bombs had been placed there.
The child rights activist won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. He shared the prize with Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai.
The body of 33-year-old soldier from Kerala was recovered near his camp in Deolali Cantonment, Maharashtra.
In this lockdown, no matter how many similarities the memory dredges up from past events and associations, there is one thing that has no precedent: The isolation that it has imposed on people, reports Arundhuti Dasgupta.
Paper notes, diaries, laptops and desktop computers recovered from the 'horor' house in Kolkata where a man was found living with a skeleton and carcasses have revealed a complicated relationship between the family members.
A case of accidental death was registered after a post-mortem conducted at King Edward Memorial Hospital here revealed that he died of a dog-bite, police said.
Even as police remains clueless about Aruna Shanbaug's assailant, a local newspaper on Friday claimed to have traced him to a village in Uttar Pradesh.
Incense materials comprising ghee and aromatic woods have been despatched to Kedarnath
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
'Dalvi, you are saying you asked a question, but don't remember the answer?' asks Pasbola incredulously. 'Yes.' 'You are lying.'
A bomb explosion at the Idinthakarai coastal village in Tirunelveli district in Tamil Nadu has killed six people, including three children, who were all aged below five. The blast site is close to Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant.
Danish police on Sunday claimed to have shot dead the gunman who who killed two people in separate shootings at a cafe and a synagogue in Denmark capital Copenhagen.
Many pictures showed The Skeleton Named Sheena. For the purpose of the photographs, the skeleton had been re-assembled and looked straight at the camera.
'It may serve the interests of the rule of law if the Supreme Court were to appoint the UNHCR as amicus curiae in the CAA case,' notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The police lodged a suo motu case against unknown persons in connection with their involvement in the mishap, a police officer said.
The die-hard supporters of the sport along with major political parties in the state have been demanding an ordinance for conducting Jallikattu.
DMK working president M K Stalin led a protest in Chennai and sought promulgation of an ordinance to allow holding the sport.
Many issues dog the Mahagathbandhan of the Congress, Jharkhand Vikas Morcha-Prajatantrik and the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, the most prominent of which is seat sharing.
The replies from the governor seek to put to rest a week's uncertainty that had been dogging the valley especially after Centre had rushed 100 companies (10,000 security personnel) to the state.
The teen had received a word that a friend had died in his home country days before. He vowed in a note that he would 'take revenge on these infidels'.
An eyewitness said some people in a minibus and private cars were trapped.
He was presented at a news conference in Lucknow by the police.
A bomb hoax delayed by three hours the departure of a special Indian Air Force aircraft carrying President A P J Abdul Kalam to New Delhi.
The airline has declined to comment when asked if Tariq, 23, was their employee.
Once famous for its gardens and flowers, a still submerged Srinagar city now presents a grim and nauseating picture of the destruction caused by floods.
Expressing suspicion over the cause of death of their son, whose body was found along railway track in Dharmapuri, Ilavarasan's parents -- T Elango and Krishnaveni, accompanied by their advocates, told media persons in Chennai that police had not investigated the various angles in the case.
'Lifting of lockdown should be very gradual. Some facilities should remain closed through the month of May like schools, colleges, malls, cinema halls, religious places and markets'
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