Ten persons were killed and seven others injured in rain related incidents in different parts of Uttar Pradesh during past 24 hours, a senior official said here today. The maximum 11 deaths were reported from Saharanpur district. “Ten persons were killed and seven injured in different parts of UP since yesterday. The toll since last […]
A bus, on its way to a hill station, fell into a gorge in Raigad district of Maharashtra this afternoon killing 33 passengers, senior officials said. The bus was carrying 34 staff members of an agriculture university in the Konkan region. It fell into a 500-feet deep gorge at Ambenali Ghat near Poladpur town, District […]
New Delhi: As many as 111 people were killed in 822 incidents of communal violence in India in 2017, Minister Hansraj Gangaram Ahir said today. He told the Rajya Sabha that 86 people were killed in 703 incidents of communal violence in 2016 and 97 people lost their lives in 751 such incidents in 2015. […]
Reiterating that 1984 Sikh riots was the biggest incident of lynching, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said the central government is taking the incidents of lynching “very seriously” and might bring a law, if necessary, to stop it. “I want to make it clear that the government is not just concerned but has […]
The Rajasthan Police on Monday admitted to a delay in taking Akbar Khan, the man allegedly beaten to death by a mob in always on Sunday, to a community health centre for treatment. The admission comes hours after a report in The Indian Express claimed that police had stopped to have tea, and got the […]
Srinagar: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi Monday blamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “brutal New India” for the recent lynching in Alwar in Rajasthan. Criticising the delay by policemen in taking the victim to hospital, The Indian Express quoted Gandhi saying, “This is Modi’s brutal “New India” where humanity is replaced with hatred and people are crushed […]
New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Monday said there cannot be a “complete ban” on holding protests and sit-ins at places like Jantar Mantar and Boat Club here and asked the Centre to frame guidelines for according sanctions to such events. A bench of justices A.K. Sikri and Ashok Bhushan said there was a need […]
New Delhi: The Congress today said there was no clause in a 2008 pact between India and France that prevents the government from divulging price details of the Rafale deal. Former defence minister and senior Congress leader A K Antony said the government’s claim that a secrecy clause in the pact was forcing it to […]
Days after tendering his resignation from the BJP, former Rajya Sabha MP Chandan Mitra Saturday joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC). He was seen on the dais with TMC leader and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the party’s annual Martyr’s Day rally at Esplande in Kolkata. Along with Mitra, four other Congress MLAs are among several others […]
Villagers in the northwestern state of Rajasthan beat a Muslim man to death after accusing him of smuggling cows destined for slaughter, police said Saturday. Senior officer Anil Beniwal said the mob ambushed the 28-year-old and another man who were transporting cows through a forested area in the Alwar district and then began beating them […]