India

Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel's Son was stopped by authorities from boarding a Qatar Airways flight to Greece after he arrived in a "heavily drunken" state and argued with airlines staff, officials said.

Sohail Mahmood, one of the senior most officers of the Pakistan Foreign Service, will be the country's new High Commissioner to India, diplomatic sources here said on Monday.

The Supreme Court will on Monday announce its verdict on a CBI plea opposing the dropping of conspiracy charges against RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav in a fodder scam case.

"Congratulations to @EmmanuelMacron fr an emphatic victory in the French Presidential election. #Presidentielle2017," Modi tweeted.

As many as 19 Naxalites, nine of them allegedly involved in the deadly attack on CRPF personnel last week, were arrested on Saturday from separate places in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district, police said.

IT giant Wipro on Saturday confirmed that it has augmented security measures at all its office locations after receiving a "threatening letter from an unidentified source".

Following Uttar Pradesh's poor performance in Swachh Survekshan survey, chief minister Yogi Adityanath himself picked up a broom and sweeped the streets of Lucknow on Friday to spread awareness on cleanliness.

Even as she agreed with her brother judges, Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Ashok Bhushan, in handing down capital punishment to the four convicts, the lady judge was unequivocal that neither the laws nor the punishment to offenders were adequate to bring...

The Supreme Court will on Friday deliver the verdict in the appeals filed by the four convicts who have been sentenced to death in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case which shook the conscience of the nation.

Shashidhar also alleged that the police officers who seek favours from politicians for postings to their favourite places do not carry out proper investigation against politicians facing criminal cases.

Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Thursday said India should "not shy away from beheading 100, if they cut off the head of even one of our soldiers" - on the killing and mutilation of two Indian soldiers on the Line of Control.

The police said the men had inserted a chip-based device in a petrol pump dispenser, which showed correct readings but gave customers less fuel than what they paid for.

"Though, earlier, Dongria Kondh boys have passed matriculation examination, it is for the first time that girls have cleared it. It's a proud moment for both the community and the administration," Sub-Collector (Rayagada) Muralidhar Swain said.

"We must never forget that innovative spirit and continue making efforts to develop our traditional techniques and methods," Modi added.

The oil marketing company representatives will accompany the UP police STF and officials of the state's weights and measures department, the food and civil supply department for inspection of all petrol pumps in Uttar Pradesh, Pradhan said.

According to reports, they are alleged to have decamped with five SLR rifles.