The accused has been identified as Harsh Sahay Gurjar and was held from Ganganagar in Sawai Madhopur district
Close on the heels of attacks on churches in different parts of the country, two missionaries were found murdered at their hermitage in Dehradun on Monday morning. Sixty-year-old Father Samuel and Sister Mercy, 35, were found dead in separate rooms at their ashram 'Samarpanalaya' at Chhota Rampur, police said.
UP accounted for 14.7 per cent of all registered crimes against women in 2019. The state also recorded the highest number of cases against Dalit women.
Dr Gupta handled Shivade's blows with quite some equanimity... So it was often only Shivade down in the mud pit, egging and enticing the doctor to join the fight, while Dr Gupta cautiously kept to the sidelines, barely stepping a toe into the mud.
Continuing his tirade against Raghuram Rajan, BJP MP Subramanian Swamy on Friday said RBI Governor's policies have finished small industries and are anti-agriculture.
Judge Jagdale halted Dr Gupta's testimony several times because he felt it had neither order nor direction. Tightly controlling his irritation, his lips compressed, the judge explained as patiently as he could: "What he has done in this case should come (out in his testimony) in a lucid manner. You eat chapati and then rice. You cannot eat half a chapati and then have rice and then eat half a chapati..." "He is not a witness of facts. He is an expert witness. Either he is not prepared. Or you are not prepared."
Three concurring pathology reports have confirmed that Bob Woolmer died from natural causes.
Mumbai Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria tonight said the police have a fair idea of the motive behind the murder of Sheena Bora but declined to elaborate saying the "third accused" (Sanjeev Khanna) was yet to be interrogated.
According to a Scotland Yard report, the Pakistan coach died of natural causes.
A Pakistani teenage girl was drugged, strangled and her body set on fire for allegedly helping her friend to elope
The doctor is battling for life at a city hospital as the attackers tried to strangulate her after which she fell unconscious, police said. Hospital sources said her condition was very critical.
Yet another case of gang rape and murder of a teenage girl was reported from Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh, the constituency of Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav.
A high-voltage drama unfolded in Lucknow yesterday as Priyanka alleged she was manhandled by cops who grabbed her by the neck and pushed her when she resisted their attempts to stop her from visiting the residence of an ex-IPS officer arrested for anti-CAA protests.
The police are yet to identify the girl.
A sub-inspector attached to a Mumbai police station was arrested in connection with the alleged murder of his wife at Nehru Nagar.
Militants abducted two persons Abdul Majid Khan and Shabir Ahmad Reshi alias Tober from their houses at Lamad-Bernai in Qazigund area of Anantnag district Monday night.
The onus today is on China, but it also requires a little diplomatic finesse from India, backed by a modernised armed force, argues BJP MP Subramanian Swamy in this excerpt from his new book, Himalayan Challenge: India, China And The Quest For Peace.
An accused in the rape-and-murder case, who was earlier said to be a juvenile, is over 19 years old, the official said, quoting medical reports.
Greenpeace India on Tuesday said it was staring at an "imminent" shutdown within a month in the absence of funds.
A vegetable vendor, who killed his wife as he did not like her complexion, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Delhi court on Wednesday.
Table-toppers Chennai Super Kings will look to complete the double against Kolkata Knight Riders, just like Delhi Capitals did, when the teams clash in Sunday's IPL match in Kolkata. The home side's consistency has suddenly taken a beating after two defeats on the trot, first in Chennai and then against Delhi Capitals on Friday night. Thus, the Knight Riders will be under immense pressure to arrest the slide when they face mighty Chennai.
Justice Chandrachud also said that use of state machinery to curb dissent instills fear, which violates the rule of law.
Pakistan's social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch was killed allegedly by her brother in Multan in Punjab province, becoming the latest victim of "honour killings" that plague the country.
The Indian companion of Lee Ching Ya, Gopal Sharma, is missing. The Taiwanese Embassy in New Delhi has been informed, police said.
Pasbola had a number of queries about the nails of the corpse found at Gagode Khurd. Did it have nails? Nails, in a case of strangulation, are key because they often have particles and skin beneath them to show the victim had been grasping something as s/he was strangled.
"The finality of death sentence is extremely important and a condemned prisoner should not be under the impression, that the death sentence remains open ended and can be questioned by them all the time," the SC said.
Rajkumar Singh, a native of Punjab, was nabbed late Saturday night with help from the police of Karnataka capital and was being brought to Goa, a top official said.
Two suspects have been arrested and police say the case is a fallout of a monetary dispute.
According to police sources, Bharti is believed to be hiding somewhere near Agra.
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar he will oppose a case of sedition against JNUSU oresident Kanhaiya Kumar, reports M I Khan.
Zeenat, 18, died on the spot, police said.
On May 11, Shyamvar Rai had sought to turn approver, saying he wants to "disclose all truths" as he had taken part in Sheena's killing by strangulation and was present at the time of the murder in 2012.
'Fear psychosis has gripped the entire world.' 'Nobody is going to enter shops freely in the next 5, 6 months.' 'Secondly, the priority has changed.' 'Now that they have seen the bottom of the economy, people will prefer to save for tomorrow.'
Shyamvar Rai had written a two-page letter to the court stating that he wants to reveal the truth and had sought pardon in the case.
The chief minister, who reached the hospital amid protest by Democratic Youth Federation of India activists alleging lapses in the probe, consoled the mother of the victim and said steps would be taken to provide a government job to the victim's sister to support her family.
There's no head or tails to anything that happens in Saaho, says Sukanya Verma.
"What am I achieving ultimately; I will lose my husband, my children will lose their father. I am not happy with the development, but had to do all this to come out of the abuse," Lipika said.
Early on Friday morning, the team of police officials and forensic experts from Mumbai had reached Gagode Budruk village in Pen teshil and the digging had started around 6 am.
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