The toll due to floods in Assam's state capital rose to 11 on Saturday when one person was electrocuted even as the torrential rains ceased.
A Pakistani journalist was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the restive southwest Balochistan province, the fourth scribe to be killed in as many months in the country ranked by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation as "the second most dangerous" in the world for reporters.
'There is no law and order in Bihar.' 'Criminals do as per their will.'
No untoward incident has been reported from the district over the past three days.
With the recovery of a ody in the violence-hit lower Assam districts, the death toll in the unrest on Friday rose to 45, while the army staged flag marches in worst-hit Kokrajhar and curfew was relaxed in some of the affected districts.
Nine more pilgrims, including a couple from Odisha, died en route to the 3,880-metre high holy shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir Himalayas during the last 24 hours, taking the death toll in the ongoing yatra to 97.
An unidentified militant was on Saturday killed as security forces scuttled a major infiltration bid in Machil sector of north Kashmir's Kupwara district, Army said.
Six more Amarnath pilgrims died en route to the holy cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas, taking the toll during this year's pilgrimage to 67, officials said.
'The really striking thing is that the Taliban has suo moto presented to us certain firm benchmarks against which it expects us to hold to account the Taliban rulers's actions in the period ahead' notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Sudiksha, an academically bright student, was pursuing a graduation course in entrepreneurship at Babson College, Massachusetts, US, on a scholarship and was scheduled to go back on August 20.
On January 5 last year, a mob of masked men stormed the campus and targeted students in three hostels, unleashing mayhem with sticks, stones and iron rods, hitting inmates and breaking windows, furniture and personal belongings.
The blast was at the office of the honorary consul general to Macedonia, and three bodies were recovered with throats cuts and hands and feet tied together.\n\n\n\n
Naked bodies of an unidentified man and a woman were on Monday found inside two steel trunks dumped near a park in the district, following which Haryana police has sent five teams to neighbouring states to crack the case, which it suspects to be of honour killing.
Photos of an Egyptian woman being brutally beaten by 10 male soldiers while one of them ripped off her shirt as another kicked her with full force in her exposed chest has further enraged the public against the military.
Goonj was eventually born in 1999, with 67 clothes his wife and he had collected.
Barring stray incidents of violence like stone pelting, the shutdown called by the MVA allies Shiv Sena, the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party was largely peaceful.
Two sisters were shot dead by suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba militants in north Kashmir's Sopore town on Monday evening.A senior police officer said the two sisters, Kulsooma, 19 and Yasmin, 17 had been forced out of their home at gunpoint by some unidentified gunmen."The two sisters were later shot at point blank range and their bodies were recovered some distance away from their home," the officer said.The incident triggered panic in the area.
Though the veracity of the photograph is yet to be ascertained, many believe that this could be the real thing.
Suspected militants on Saturday shot dead a sarpanch in Sopore township of north Kashmir's Baramulla district.
A heavily pregnant woman and her husband have become latest victims of suspected honour killing in Pakistan, just a day after another pregnant woman was killed by her own mother in the same Punjab province for contracting marriage against parents' will.
Kafeel Khan's mother has demanded police protection for her family.
Scores of Banaras Hindu University students also staged a protest at the Lanka Gate in support of the AMU students.
This is the worst-ever outbreak of violence in the district.
A local Bharatiya Janata Party leader was today shot dead by two unidentified assailants while he was out for a morning walk, sparking protest by party workers.
Two of the terrorists belonged to Hizb-ul-Mujahideen.
A prominent Right to Information activist, who had filed a public interest litigation against illegal mining in Gir forest region, was shot dead by two unidentified gunmen opposite Gujarat high court in Ahmedabad on Tuesday, police said.
Indian youth Nitin Garg, who was killed by unidentified assailants in Australia, was cremated in his native town on Sunday in the presence of a large number of mourners, including an Australian official who assured the family that the guilty will be punished.
Senior Superintendent of Police Rakesh Singh said 45 cases have been registered against the encroachers in which 3000 persons have made the accused.
Shivade: "You didn't find any brain inside the brain cavity?" Dr Thakur nodded. The judge shocked: "Huh?!"
Karnataka Water Resources Minister Ramesh Jarkiholi on Wednesday resigned from the state cabinet, following allegations of sexual harassment against him.
What makes the brutality every more evident, is that her oesophagus was missing and gnawing effects were seen over chest of the victim.
Police said they have recovered the body and sent it for an autopsy. An investigation was launched into the incident.
The encounter broke out on Thursday night at Kanibal in Bijbehara of Anantnag district, when the police along with the army and Central Reserve Police Force cordoned off a village following an intelligence input about the presence of terrorists, they said.
Troubles mounted for Mumbai police officer Sachin Waze, who has been facing heat in the murder case of businessman Mansukh Hiran, as a sessions court in Maharashtra's Thane district has refused to grant him interim bail and noted that there was prima facie evidence and material against him.
The badly mutilated bodies of the in-laws of Vibha Bharati, MLA from Rupauli, were recovered from the bank of a river at Bankaghat in Purnea district on Friday.
Indefinite curfew has been enforced in troubled Baksa district of Bodoland Territorial Autonomous District Council areas of Assam following the killing of a youth leader, Manoj Das, of Asom Sena by unidentified gunmen on Wednesday evening at Mushalpur area.
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.
Two motorcyclists were run over by an unidentified car in Gorakhpur on Friday night, which locals alleged belonged to the cavalcade of Bhojpuri actor Manoj Tiwari. According to the police, Rajkumar Gupta and Pintu of Sangrampur village were crushed by the speeding car near Jarlahi bridge.Senior Superintendent of Police R K Srivastava said the identity of the vehicle has not been established yet but the investigation is on, adding that the bodies have been sent for post-mortem
'Not only have we rescued 1,700 fishermen but on the morning of November 30, we evacuated 1,044 fishing folk, otherwise the missing numbers would have been much higher.'
