India

BJP MLA Usha Thakur has kicked up a controversy after she reportedly performed aarti of controversial godman Asaram Bapu's photograph, who was jailed in an alleged sexual harassment case.

Hit by a natural calamity of catastrophic proportions in June last year, Uttarakhand will now be given maximum electricity from Muzaffarnagar-Roorkee feeder, the Centre assured Uttarakhand Chief Secretary Subhash Kumar on Friday.

A court on Friday rejected the bail application filed by former minister Babulal Nagar, accused of raping a married woman, his lawyer said.

She might be known as the iron lady but former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was particular about her looks as her appointments diary for 1984 shows she visited a hairdresser 120 times.

While it didn't find talking dangerous, the study confirms that dialling, texting or reaching for a phone while driving is risky.

A man allegedly sedated his woman friend, raped her and took her nude pictures which he uploaded on a social networking site, police said on Friday.

The Srinagar-Jammu national highway connecting Kashmir with the rest of the country was opened for one-way traffic on Friday, three days after heavy snowfall forced its closure.

A 12-year-old deaf and mute girl was allegedly raped by a man in a village in Fefna area in Ballia.

Teachers employed on a contractual basis in government schools protested outside Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's Kausambi residence on Friday morning demanding permanent employment. They were joined by contractual employees of Delhi tourism departm...

A day-long bandh called by United Andhra supporters, including TDP and YSRCP, against draft Telangana Bill hit essential services in coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema districts on Friday, inconveniencing several citizens.

Five new countries joined the UN Security Council (UNSC) as non-permanent members starting from the new year, while Jordan assumed on Thursday the rotating presidency of the Council for January.

Shamli district authorities have started taking steps to evacuate people from relief camps in the wake of the cold wave gripping the north.

Dreaded outlaw Bablu Kanda, with a reward of Rs 10,000 on his head, succeeded in dodging police, at four points falling under different police stations of the Mathura on Thursday.

Out of 35 entries in the Marathi feature competition, only seven movies have been selected including '72 Miles...'.

Members of BJP's youth wing were on Thursday baton-charged by the police in front of state Assembly in Lucknow when they allegedly indulged into stone-pelting while attempting to march towards Congress office for demonstration.

Shetty is B-town's most sought-after director today with A-list producers and actors vying to work with him.