In the last three years, the Union Territory administration has invoked 311 (2)(c) of the Constitution to sack more than 50 employees, who were allegedly operating in shadows within the government and drawing a salary from the public exchequer, however, they were helping Pakistani terror outfits, providing logistics to terrorists, propagating terrorists' ideology, raising terror finances and furthering secessionist agenda, officials said.
A CRPF constable shot himself dead with his service weapon in Nizamabad district of Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday apparently due to harassment by his seniors.
As per the sources, the police took Sheezan to the crime spot inside the makeup room, for investigating the details of Tunisha's condition while she was hanged.
Two separate suicide notes were recovered. They said that the CBI raid caused them (the family) great humiliation in the society.
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) on Monday said that its officers had detained a suicide bomber, a member of the Islamic State terrorist group, who was plotting a terrorist attack against one of India's leadership elite, Russia news agency Sputnik reported.
Noted cricket columnist Peter Roebuck was about to be detained over an alleged sexual assault on a Zimbabwean Facebook friend when he committed suicide at his hotel, in Cape Town, his colleague Jim Maxwell has said.
Tension gripped Osmania University campus on Tuesday with another student committing suicide by setting himself ablaze in protest against the delay in formation of Telangana.
Yogendra came to the city, booked a room in the hotel and ended his life after informing his relatives in Banaskantha over phone, he added.
Former Haryana Minister Gopal Kanda, an accused in airhostess Geetika Sharma suicide case, was denied bail by a Delhi court which said the stage of the trial is at the threshold and considering his power and status, his mere presence is likely to intimidate witnesses.
The Congress leader asked the government to not resort to further unorthodox, short-term economic measures that can cause any more uncertainty in the economy.
'How was it possible for Singh to have got a government job, and that too one involving the handling of guns, had he been insane?'
'Worshippers weren't killed during prayers even in India or Israel but it happened in Pakistan'
Delhi-based businessman Sajal Jain and three of his friends allegedly raped Bijal Joshi after which she committed suicide.
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.
A woman on Tuesday allegedly jumped to death from the 19th floor of a residential building along with her two children at suburban Malad in Mumbai. Nidhi Pawan Gupta, a chartered accountant, left a suicide note in which she said that nobody was responsible for the extreme step, said the police. The bodies of Gupta, 30, her son Gaurav, 6, and daughter Mahika, 3, were taken to nearby civic run Bhagwati hospital for post mortem, police said.
The high court in London on Tuesday began hearing evidence from two leading experts in the field of psychiatry to determine the level of suicide risk faced by Nirav Modi if he is extradited 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 heard from Andrew Forrester, Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at Cardiff University, and Seena Fazel, Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at Oxford University, in the final stages of the extradition appeal being pursued by the 51-year-old diamond merchant. The two psychiatrists weighed up Nirav's level of depression, which could pose a "substantial" or "elevated" risk of suicide.
Investigators will subject the cloth allegedly used by Sushant Singh Rajput to hang himself to 'tensile strength' analysis to determine whether it can bear the weight similar to that of the actor, as part of probe into his death.
The National Investigation Agency on Friday filed a fresh charge sheet against five persons in connection with the Coimbatore car bomb blast in October 2022, and said the prime accused was "reportedly inspired by the hardcore ISIS ideology" to carry out this terrorist attack.
The Australian's determination to once again display his talent on the Wimbledon lawns is an illustration of the huge importance the grasscourt Grand Slam has played in his career.
The delay in receiving the revised pension was due to problems in calculation at his bank's end.
A former laboratory assistant of a Delhi University college, who had set herself on fire seven days ago after alleging sexual harassment by a college principal, succumbed to her injuries on Monday.
According to police, a note recovered from the room of the deceased nun stated that she was taking the extreme step as she was not able to withstand 'harassment' from a senior nun of the convent.
'Later, I asked Hrithik how he could have remained so calm in the circumstances. He told me simply, "What could have happened? At the most, they would have killed me".'
"Four terrorists were killed in the retaliatory firing and the suicide attack was foiled," an official said.
Telugu actor Bhargavi was found murdered at her residence in Banjara Hills on Tuesday. The police also found the dead body of one Praveen Kumar in the same room. Police officials investigating the case say Praveen Kumar murdered Bhargavi before consuming poison. The police found a suicide note that said Bhargavi was his wife and he killed her because she had started neglecting him after her success in films. Bhargavi's parents have denied that she ever married Praveen.
Kazmierczak shot dead five students, mostly women, and injured 23 others in Northern Illinois University before turning the weapon on himself on the Valentine's Day, but no Indian casualty has been reported. A senior Indian Embassy official told PTI that both the Mission in Washington and the Consulate in Chicago were following the tragic incident closely. "At this time, there have been no reports of any Indian students killed or seriously injured," the official said.
Though the lies hardly go beyond extramarital affairs and conception problems, they are laid out by arresting storytellers who raise the stakes while speaking in tongues not wiped clean to make progressive points (No Made in Heaven-type diddling, here), notes Sreehari Nair.
"I want to clarify one thing that the BJP is not going to take the support of Kanda," he told reporters in Chandigarh.
At least 15 suicides took place every hour in the country during last year, which saw over 1.31 lakh people ending their lives, with government data also noting that Maharashtra saw the highest number of such cases while Chennai heads the list among cities.
A contractor who had accused the Karnataka Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (RDPR) Minister K S Eshwarappa of demanding 40 per cent commission for a contract, was found dead in a lodge in the coastal town of Udupi on Tuesday morning.
"The post-mortem report said it was a case of asphyxia due to ante-mortem hanging and suicidal in nature," the SP said.
Success in Karnataka's assembly polls will hinge on two factors: Drop a large number of incumbent MLAs and project Modi and not the state leaders, least of all Bommai.
'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.
"Do you want us to tell the doctors at AIIMS to stop the fetal heart?" the bench, also comprising Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, asked the counsel appearing for the 27-year-old woman.
The letter purportedly written by Rohith Vemula, the Dalit scholar of University of Hyderabad, before he committed suicide, has been sent to the forensic lab for analysis as reports emerged about an entire paragraph that had been scratched off the note.
"He might have been provoked... some conspiracy may be behind this," they said.
Mother India has lost a son. There will be reasons, there will be politics (surrounding it) but the fact remains that a mother has lost her son. I feel the pain very well," a visibly emotional Modi said.
'I hear of so many people not getting their money and producers not taking their calls to pay them.'
'It is the most shocking and tragic incident in the history of SAI' SAI's director general Injeti Srinivas will submit report to Sports Ministry at the earliest
Eight persons have been shot dead when a gunman opened fire indiscriminately before killing himself inside a store in the busy Westroads shopping mall in Omaha in Nebraska state.
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