Vipul Kansal, a Class V student who was allegedly abducted on October 16, was found dead in the outskirts of the city on Wednesday.
Four school students were arrested for allegedly smearing colour on posters of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati during Holi, and a local court in Lucknow on Wednesday freed them on bail even as she chided the police for taking such harsh action for a 'petty mistake'.
'We are thankful to K L Rahul for donating such a large amount for Varad's surgery,' Varad's mother Swapna said. 'But for him, it would have been impossible to carry out the bone marrow transplant in such a short period of time. Thank you, Rahul.'
Boufal and Sabiri score to give Morocco 2-1 win over Brazil
With editing by school teachers and a preface written by eminent author Amitav Ghosh, the dream of a teenager to get his poems published has come true but only few months after he died mysteriously.
A minor girl was allegedly gangraped in the city by five school students over a month ago and CDs and MMS of the act were circulated, according to an First Information Report lodged by Bihar Women's Commission.
A 12-year-old Indian rollerskating fanatic was among the record-breakers who made it into the 2014 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records, released on Monday.
Long before he became one of the most wanted terrorists in India, Yasin Bhatkal, or Ahmed Siddibapa as he was known back then, was just another student at a school in Bhatkal, a coastal town in Karnataka.
The student of a Gwalior school who allegedly attempted suicide was ragged, the Central Board of Secondary Education has established and will issue a showcause notice to the institute.
Authorities have ordered a probe into the issue of a Pakistani boy being projected as a suicide bomber after it appeared that the 14-year-old had inadvertently crossed into the Indian side following a fight with his parents.
The rescued boys have been taken to a hospital by ambulances for medical treatment.
Sumit Kumar, a class VII student of St. Paul Public School in Patna, left for school on Tuesday morning, but has not returned since.
HIT: The First Case hits the jackpot with Rajkummar Rao. Nothing escapes his discerning eye. Nothing comes in our way of admiring it, raves Sukanya Verma.
A moment of perfect timing, agility and sheer audacity marked the return of Wayne Rooney's instinct for goal as he propelled Manchester United nearer to the Premier League title on Saturday.
Tulsidas Balaram, who passed into the ages last week, was a member of the Indian football team which reached the semis at the Olympics and won an Asian Games gold medal.
Some observers also point to the way he handled the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic and economic and social distress that followed it, even suggesting that it may have contributed to his downfall.
Lovingly made, heartfelt stories that speak the truths about our lives.
Germany will need to transform from a schoolboy team to a fighting unit if they are to have any chance of progressing in the World Cup, midfielder Sami Khedira said on Thursday.
Jawaharlal Nehru was a man of the people and of many gifts and achievements, says veteran author Ruskin Bond in his new book, and describes Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a man of humble beginnings, whose political acumen and yogic willpower have brought him to the top.
Fifty years ago today, December 25, 1972, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, one of the titans of India's freedom struggle, passed into the ages. Kalki Krishnamurthy, who penned the Tamil classic Ponniyin Selvan among numerous other novels, describes his first glimpse of the man who would become an august national leader and his cherished role model.
The 14-year-old gave evidence of his rich potential by scoring 546 for Rizvi Springfield in the first round of the Mumbai School Sports Association's Harris Shield Elite Division match against St. Francis D'Assisi, Borivali, at the Baronet CC pitch, Azad Maidan, in Mumbai.
Action, animation, fantasy, romance, sports, crime, zombies, slice of life, coming of age, you name it, it's there on OTT this week.
To become youngest Test debutant on Australian soil
'He made me feel like a crorepati even without sitting in the hot seat.'
Sukanya Verma lists 10 knockout performances from the star.
Former Australia captain Ian Chappell wants the world's leading players to converge and decide on a structure that needs to be built to save the future of Test cricket, with India skipper Virat Kohli as their designated "spokesperson".
The PSG frontline is already formidable, with Messi's former Barca team mate Neymar and young France striker Kylian Mbappe seen as two of the best players on the planet.
Wearing a T-shirt that read "This is Paris," Messi beamed and waved at scores of fans who had come to greet him at Le Bourget airport on the outskirts of the French capital after his flight from Barcelona.
With its political colour dominated by less than democratic trends, BRICS currently leaves some of us wondering -- where in this grouping is there an assurance that human freedom will be respected unconditionally? It would be nice to see the new members of BRICS drawn from the ranks of countries wedded to preserving and guarding human freedom, observes Shyam G Menon.
On this Teachers Day, I once again bow my head as I remember all the teachers who had taught me in school, college, military academy, army courses and so on. But Ms Shantha Potty Aunty, this one more head bow is specially for you, admirably says Colonel K Thammayya Udupa (retd).
The eight-year-old son of Brazil left back Marcelo has gone viral on social media with the help of his dad's Real Madrid team mates and an already prodigious talent for heading the football.
Variety is the spice of life and the greatest USP of OTT platforms. Sukanya Verma points out all the wonderful stuff to choose from this week's mix.
On Thursday, the overall AQI in Delhi was 312 around 8:30 in the morning.
A team of 90 expert divers -- 40 from Thailand and 50 from overseas -- has been working in the cave system. They have been guiding the boys through darkness and submerged passageways towards the mouth of the Tham Luang cave system.
A school student was killed and 14 others, including nine policemen, were injured in a clash which led to police firing in a tea estate in Assam's Jorhat district, police sources said on Monday.
No one deserves the title thespian more than Dilip Kumar, notes Shreekant Sambrani.
'It's my humble tribute to a talent that has no limits, no boundaries.'
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