A court here on Friday rejected the plea of a Bangladesh national, held for stabbing actor Saif Ali Khan, to plead guilty and said the accused will face trial in the case. Khan was repeatedly stabbed ...

Following two fatal tiger attacks that sparked outrage in the Nilgiris district, Tamil Nadu Forest Minister Ranjith Kumar visited on Friday the grieving families in Gudalur to offer his condolences.

The Allahabad High Court has acquitted a man sentenced to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment for allegedly abducting a minor, observing that the trial court had virtually assumed the role of an expert ...

A Gurugram court convicted an accused for raping a 17-year-old girl and sentenced him to 20 years of imprisonment, police said on Friday. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 30,000 under Section 6 of ...

The Andhra Pradesh government on Friday approved the constitution of a State Data Governance Committee (SDGC), aimed at breaking departmental data silos, enabling interoperability across government ...

The Centre is seeking to move women in rural livelihood programmes beyond participation in self-help groups (SHGs) to greater leadership and decision making in economic institutions, Rural Development ...

Two government auditors were arrested on Friday for allegedly collecting bribes from schools and hostels run by the ST & SC Development Department in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district, officials said. The ...

Several students of a private school in Assam’s Dibrugarh district were reportedly injured in an incident involving self-harm, prompting the district administration to order an inquiry on Friday, ...

Days after a trader was killed here following a dispute over social media posts, protesters on Friday demanded the death penalty for the accused, demolition of their houses, Rs 5 crore compensation ...

Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty recovered from early lows to close marginally lower on Friday following a correction in crude oil prices and late buying in IT shares and private banking major ...

Jammu and Kashmir will welcome filmmakers with open arms, unmatched natural landscapes and has ready infrastructure, Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting L Murugan has said, ...

A 35-year-old man died allegedly following a seizure attack at a hospital while he was in police custody in Chhattisgarh’s Janjgir-Champa district, with his family alleging assault by cops, and ...