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President Pranab Mukherjee (Photo: PTI)

No place for gender bias in India, inexcusable that women feel unsafe:...

The government is equally concerned at the rising rate of violent crimes against women.'

8 March 2017 4:53 PM IST

Supporters of Sayeed are thinking of filing a case against the harassers for threatening a woman.

Muslim woman from K'taka harassed on FB for singing Hindu religious...

On Facebook, the woman has been targeted for singing in public, as well as for singing in front of men.

8 March 2017 4:48 PM IST

Swami Aseemanand. (Photo: Twitter/ANI)

Ajmer dargah blast case: NIA court acquits Aseemanand, convicts 3

The three found guilty by the NIA court are Bhavesh, Devendra Gupta and Sunil Joshi, who was murdered in December 2007.

8 March 2017 4:45 PM IST

The state police was using all its resources to nab the other accused said Director General of UP Police.

2 terror suspects arrested from Kanpur, Unnao taken to Lucknow

Police had also apprehended one Shakeel alias Ajgar from the Rehmani market in Kanpur but he escaped.

8 March 2017 3:58 PM IST

Saifullah belonged to an ISIS module that was preparing to conduct a massive attack on a Sufi Shrine in Uttar Pradeshs Barabanki. (Photo: PTI)

Won't accept anti-national's body: Father of IS suspect killed in...

Saifullah was killed earlier this morning by the Anti-Terror Squad after a 12-hour-long operation.

8 March 2017 3:22 PM IST

Smoke erupts from a bogie after a blast in the Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train near Jabdi station in Shajapur district in Madhya Pradesh. (Photo: PTI)

Bhopal-Ujjain train blast perpetrators influenced by ISIS: MP CM...

At least 10 people were injured, three of them seriously, in the IED blast in the train.

8 March 2017 2:58 PM IST

Minister for Information and Broadcasting, M. Venkaiah Naidu speaks at the release of the annual year book India-2017 (Bharat-2017) published by Publications Division, in New Delhi. (Photo: AP)

Political unity needed to combat terrorism: Venkaiah on Ujjain train...

Naidu said nobody should encourage cross-border terrorism and separatist forces in the country.

8 March 2017 2:57 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: PTI)

Narendra Modi vows to double farmers' income by 2022

Modi further said that the govt would help small fishermen by developing coastline and fishing business under 'blue...

8 March 2017 2:29 PM IST

At least 59 people died of asphyxia and over 100 others were injured in the stampede after fire broke out in Uphaar cinema on June 13, 1997, during the screening of J.P. Duttas film Border. (Photo: file)

Uphaar tragedy: Gopal Ansal to surrender tomorrow

Ansal in his plea had requested to be treated at par with his brother Sushil, who was allowed to skip prison citing old...

8 March 2017 2:10 PM IST

Special Judge O. P. Saini, scheduled to pass the order Tuesday on framing of charges as well as on bail applications of the Maran brothers.

HC CJ recuses from hearing plea to stall 2017 MCD polls

A bench headed by Chief Justice G Rohini said the matter will be heard by some other bench, of which she is not a party.

8 March 2017 2:06 PM IST

The elephant, Forest Department source said, had been made to lift timber consecutively for five days without enough food and rest.

Kerala: 55-year-old woman trampled to death by wild elephant

The woman tried to run away, but the elephant gave chase and trampled her to death, police said.

8 March 2017 2:03 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an election rally at Langjing Achouba ground, Imphal West on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)

Over 100 open defecation free districts in country: Modi

'I am glad that the Swachh Bharat Mission is a mass movement, with over 100 districts now open defecation free,' he said...

8 March 2017 1:59 PM IST