A senior journalist Anil Majumdar, executive editor of Guwahati-based Assamese Daily Aji was shot dead by unidentified gunmen at the gate of his residence in the heart of Guwahati at 10-30 on Tuesday night.
Hemawathee Pooran was killed by armed robbers who broke into her home.
A 21-year-old man in Lucknow has been arrested for allegedly murdering and dismembering his father after an argument about the NEET medical entrance exam.
The attack on Sub-Inspector Farooq Ahmad Mir took place at Samboora in Pampore area.
All five zones, including the Kathmandu valley, were badly affected by the strike. Schools and colleges and major markets remained shut. Vehicular traffic was thin.
Major Surendra Roy of the Bihar Regimental Centre was shot dead by three gunmen when he was moving on Gola Road in Patna on a motorbike.
The MLA, who represented Gumidipoondi in Tiruvallur district, was shot dead after he came out of his house, in Tiruvallur, apparently on hearing some noise outside at around 2.30 am.
The son of a local Samajwadi Party leader has been named as an accused in the murder of Saheb Shukla.
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Kamlakar Jamsandikar, represented the Mohili Village-Ghatkopar Asalpha ward in the Corporation.
The incident has triggered protests by party workers who fought a pitched battle with the police.
The assailants fired at least nine bullets at Chandrawanshi while he was sitting on the veranda of his house on Thursday night.
The force personnel noticed suspicious activity near the border fence on Thursday evening.
A 28-year-old man in Delhi died after accidentally shooting himself while his cousin filmed him loading a pistol. The video, which went viral, shows the man handling the weapon before the fatal incident.
Yuvraj Jain, owner of local condiment manufacturer Ajab Namkeen, was shot when he was coming out of the temple after offering prayers, Inspector General of Police O P Gehlotra said.
A combination of security pressure and rehabilitation efforts has significantly weakened Naxalism in India, leading to numerous surrenders and the elimination of key leaders.
After more than four decades, Chhattisgarh's Bastar region has been declared free of Left-Wing Extremism (LWE), marking the end of the armed Maoist rebellion in the area. The decline is attributed to sustained security operations, improved governance, and socio-economic development initiatives.
Gunmen allegedly shot dead two women in southwest Delhi's RK Puram in the early hours of Sunday over a suspected financial dispute with their brother, police said.
Unidentified miscreants shot dead seven persons at Mayai Lambi in Imphal West under Mayang Imphal police station on Monday night. Police said in Imphal on Tuesday that the victims' hands were found tied, adding that their identities were yet to be ascertained.
M N Singh, 49, a reader in the Botany department of the Shradhanand College in north Delhi, was shot point blank.
Lucknow Super Giants defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by three wickets in an Indian Premier League match here on Thursday. Opting to bowl, LSG restricted KKR to 181 for four.
A Mumbai court acquitted five Haryana police personnel and two others in the alleged fake encounter of gangster Sandeep Gadoli in 2016, citing the prosecution's failure to prove murder and other charges.
The motive and details of the killing are awaited
A Pakistan-based gangster posted a video on social media purportedly showing the killing of a police officer in Gurdaspur, near the Indo-Pak border. A terror outfit has claimed responsibility for the incident, prompting a thorough investigation by Punjab Police.
Unidentified militants shot dead a senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader in Assam and a dealer of LP Gas, Munindra Singh Lahkar (62) at his residence at Rangiya on Thursday night.
A notorious history-sheeter, Thoppai Ganesan, with over 30 criminal cases, including five murders, was killed in a police encounter in Chennai's Madhavaram area.
A local scribe was shot dead by motorcycle-borne miscreants in Dheena area, police said.
A suspect in the murder of a 30-year-old kabaddi player in Mohali was shot dead by police in an encounter. The suspect, Harpinder alias Middu, was involved in multiple crimes and had a serious criminal background.
In yet another case of mob justice, two persons were shot dead by an angry mob in a village near Bakhtiyarpur in Bihar on Monday. The duo had reportedly killed a person. Sources said the duo first shot dead a man near the village. The shocking incident angered villagers, who beat up them severely before shooting them dead.
Similar measures were in place during the fourth Ashes Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground from December 26, where specialist police officers armed with semi-automatic rifles patrolled the stadium precinct, nearby parks and railway stations.
A 24-year-old woman was shot dead allegedly by a man in front of her brother and mother inside her house in the southeast Delhi's Jaitpur area, police said on Saturday.
A sharpshooter of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim was on Wednesday shot dead in an encounter with the police while he was trying to escape from their custody in Lucknow.
"Venkat Reddy met a 23-year-old Mexican woman through Internet dating, had a meal at Wendy's restaurant, and drove to a nearby EZ Rest motel around 2 am. This woman's boyfriend and four other cronies who were already waiting at the motel robbed Venkat and shot him to death," said Prasad Thotakura, TANA executive vice president.
Dhammika Niroshana died on Wednesday at the age of 41
In yet another deadly attack on Indians and Indian-Americans in the United States in recent months, a 34-year-old trained classical dancer from India and a student of Washington University, was shot dead in St Louis, Missouri.
The deceased, identified as Jeetu Choudhary, was the secretary of BJP's Mayur Vihar district unit, they said.
A 26-year-old Indian origin youth working as a clerk in a convenience store was allegedly shot dead by robbers. Gurjeet Singh of Merriville, Indiana who worked in his uncle's gas station was shot dead by four armed robbers on June 14. Singh was in the store when four men approached the store, one of them shot him in the neck.
He was shot dead by unidentified assailants in broad daylight.
His brother suffered a bullet injury while trying to save him.
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