Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday nominated former home minister and Congress member P Chidambaram to the department-related parliamentary standing committee on home affairs.
A depressed Indian-origin women threw her 19-month-old daughter into the chilly Hudson River and then jumped in behind her in a murder-suicide attempt to get back at her husband, prosecutors said on Saturday.
A suicide bomber was on Thursday gunned down close to the Indian Consulate complex in Afghanistan's Kandahar province before he could detonate explosives.
Witnesses said the attacker came to the check post in a cycle-rickshaw and wanted to enter inside but police foiled his attempt. He then blew himself up. A policeman and the rickshaw driver were killed in the blast. Television channels put the death toll at three, including the bomber, though the district police chief confirmed only one policeman had died.
Here is the third part of a series wherein we publish reader stories concerning ragging in colleges.
From fainting during a Class 12 exam to failing the NDA thrice, Arun Pandit would easily have succumbed to his suicidal urges, had it not been for a friend whose motivational SMS changed his life forever.
Thirteen people were killed and over 70 others injured in the suicide blast which had targeted police officials.
Listening to her and showing appreciation can improve your connection, suggests rediffGURU Kanchan Rai.
Here is the second part of a series wherein we publish reader stories concerning ragging in colleges.
Owen Wilson, a close friend of director Wes Anderson, won't be doing the publicity for The Darjeeling Limited.
Juergen Kiessling who shot himself in the head right after Sunday's final match died on Thursday.
Dr Lakshmi Vijayakumar examines why India's southern states register more suicides than the northern states. Shobha Warrier reports
The Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday claimed that the resignation of Delhi minister Raaj Kumar Anand vindicated its stand that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's arrest was aimed at finishing the party.
Beyond a point, competition is boring. The fun is in the doing, irrespective of outcome. By the time I was in college, I knew I valued awareness more than success, notes Shyam G Menon.
The High Court in London on Tuesday began hearing Nirav Modi's appeal on the grounds of his mental health against extradition to India to face charges of fraud and money laundering, amounting to an estimated $2 billion in the Punjab National Bank (PNB) loan scam case. Lord Justice Jeremy Stuart-Smith and Justice Robert Jay presided over the hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice to determine whether District Judge Sam Goozee's February ruling in favour of extradition was incorrect to overlook the diamond merchant's "high risk of suicide". The court heard of an additional assurance from the Indian authorities on November 13, which reiterates previous commitments of adequate specialist medical care and an ambulance at hand were Nirav to be extradited to Mumbai.
The family refused to accept DK Ravi committed suicide and demanded a CBI probe
However, it did not mention the period of leave.
Karat and CPI-M MP P K Biju are in Gujarat to meet the victims of atrocities on Dalits.
The first half of Saithan has a lot of suspense, says S Saraswathi.
The mortal remains of Gajendra Singh, the farmer who committed suicide during an Aam Aadmi Party rally in the national capital, were brought to his residence in Nangal, Jhamarwada in the Dausa district of Rajasthan on Thursday.
Stalin claimed that in a few months political change will take place and then the NEET barriers will come crashing down.
The bills -- the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya Bill -- were introduced in the Lok Sabha by Home Minister Amit Shah on August 11.
The accused have been identified as Rajpreet Singh, Virender Singh, Sachin Bhati, Arpit Dhankar and Susheel Pradhan, the police said.
Kirk Jones is the first known person to survive a plunge from the Niagara Falls without any protection.
During his first day in police custody, Sheezan told Waliv police that he ended the relationship with Tunisha after seeing repercussions emerging from the Shraddha Walkar case and told his former paramour that belonging to a different community stands in their way as did their age gap.
The bomber was killed outside the popular Karnak temple which is the second largest ancient religious site in the world.
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility for the attack.
Jabir Moti, 51, who was arrested by Scotland Yard last year, appeared before the Westminster Magistrates' Court in London at the start of his trial.
Over 300 people were also injured in the attack and many of them were in a critical condition.
China on Wednesday launched a blistering attack on the Dalai Lama, terming him the "hatchet man of anti-China forces" and calling the recent spate of suicides by Tibetan monks and nuns as an orchestrated attempt to create chaos.
'A soldier died of a gunshot wound at approximately 4.30 pm on April 12 at Bathinda Military Station. 'The soldier was on sentry duty with his service weapon,' the Army said.
'The government should immediately enact an Act to make caste discrimination a criminal offence and lay down a procedure similar to that of the Anti-Ragging Act.' 'Ragging has nearly been eliminated because it is treated as a criminal offence.' 'Similar procedure should be used in case of caste discrimination.'
'Kota is good if you are good' and 'Kota can make you or break you' are two cryptic statements Kota students often offer to explain life in their world.
Anyone endangering sovereignty or integrity of India may get a maximum punishment of life imprisonment while those involved in mob lynching and rape of minor may be given the maximum punishment of death sentence.
She also claimed that her daughter had checked the mobile phone of Khan, with whom she was in a relationship but broke up recently, and found his WhatsApp chats with some other woman, and when Tunisha confronted Khan about it, he slapped her, stating that she was free to do whatever she wanted.
Union minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday alleged that a malicious attempt was being made to project Rohith's suicide as a "dalit versus non-dalit issue to ignite passions".
Meanwhile, a central intelligence estimate has put the toll at 30 besides four suicide attempts.
