Court rejects UP govt plea to withdraw charges against Akhlaq murder accused

The assailants came in the dead of night. In less than five minutes, they brutally stabbed three men who worked at the pump. Who were they? What were they after?

All eight passengers were arrested under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and most of them arrived from Bangkok, Thailand, customs officials at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) said.

Hearings will initially focus on electors whose records do not map with the 2002 Special Intensive Revision data, according to ECI sources.

The midnight Christmas mass in churches across Pune is more than a mere ritual. It is a moment when the city collectively welcomes the light into its own winter night and feels that it is “part of something bigger”.

Bhupinder Singh Hooda accused the Nayab Singh Saini government of discussing issues such as Vande Mataram and electoral reforms in the Assembly, saying they were attempts to hide governance failures.

Acting on the directions of the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) issued on December 16 to “address” the traffic problem in the city, joint teams of NHAI, Railways, AMC, Traffic Police and Roads and Buildings departments are conducting surveys in various areas of the city, based on which short-term and long-term measures will be implemented.

The action by Varanasi police followed intelligence inputs suggesting that Jaiswal and his associates had fled the country and were suspected to be hiding in Dubai.

For the police, it seemed like an open and shut case, but for an insurance company reviewing the family’s claim, the paperwork told a different story

Also clears salary hike for priests and an integrated township in Tirupati

On the lowest bid amount for the tunnel road project being much higher than the government estimate, Karnataka Deputy CM D K Shivakumar said, “The government is not paying any money to the bidder…we will give them only 40 per cent of our estimates.”