A Delhi court Tuesday sent two youth arrested in connection with the death of NRI student Anmol Sarna and drug abuse to police custody till Sep 19.
The Jammu and Kashmir authorities on Wednesday imposed selective restrictions in the summer capital here after separatists called for a march in the city.
Migrant labourers in other areas had been asked to work in those areas where security personnel were deployed, police said.
Naxals allegedly set on fire a conveyor belt of National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district in the wee hours today, police said.
The book in Urdu, was edited by separatist leader Shafi Ahmad Khan Shairiati who claimed that Guru had sent him a message for Kashmiri people from Tihar Jail
Two jawans of Special Auxiliary Police (SAP) force were killed and as many injured when armed Maoists attacked a patrol party late this evening in Amarut village of this Naxal-hit Bihar district.
On being tipped-off about Maoist presence there, the patrol nabbed the duo.
Earlier this month, Gogoi ordered chief secretary PP Varma to fill up the existing vacancies in various government departments across the state soon.
Uttarakhand's famous Rajaji Park which recently got the status of a National Park is likely to become a tiger reserve in a month, a senior forest official said today.
Ultra-left All India Students Association today swept the Jawaharlal Nehru University Student Union elections, winning all the four top posts.
The winds during the storm had an average wind speed of close to 70 kmph and touched 105 kmph at one point.
Only Shopian township continues to be under curfew, while it has been lifted from all other places
A passenger of an auto-rickshaw was killed and its driver injured when a bomb kept in a bag held by the passenger exploded in South 24 Parganas district today, the police said.
Various agitating groups and organisations have been for the last few months resorting to road and rail blockades without prior warning.
Assam Governor J B Patnaik today today ruled out any division of the state and said the autonomous councils were capable of taking care of development in the districts.
The accumulated losses of state power distribution companies are estimated at about Rs 1.9 lakh crore as on 31 March 2011.
A 25-year old man drowned while immersing a Vinayakar idol in river Cauvery at Molasi in the district, police said today.
Union Minister Kumari Selja had stressed on the need for amendments in the Act, saying crimes against the SC and ST remain rampant.
The AAI staffers have been sporting black badges since Tuesday as part of their protest and union leaders are working on an action plan.
Sirleaf is the 27th recipient of the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development which is in recognition of the values she stood and fought for in the service of India and its people.
The proscribed insurgent outfit's founder general secretary was in a Bangladesh jail at Kashimpur of Dhaka since 1997.
Education institutions and banks remained closed and there were few vehicles on the roads before noon.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday said the state government will promote generation of clean energy by offering concessions to the companies coming to invest in areas like solar and wind power.
Only 15 states have so far set up their own respective State Disaster Response Force following direction from the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) earlier this year.
The defence counsel had argued that 24 accused in the case should be freed citing lack of evidence. Barring four, all the other accused were let off.
As interim consultant, DMRC would help in selection of general consultant, preparing detailed proposal for land acquisition and others.
A Rajasthan minister said that flights should be increased for Jaipur, Jodhpur and Udaipur routes from Delhi, Ahmedabad and other cities.
Of the total 260 PSUs, about 66 are sick units, including Hindustan Cables, HMT Watches and ITI Ltd, as on 31 March 2012.
The number of state-run dengue testing centres has been increased by six times in West Bengal where two people have died this year due to the fever, an official said on Tuesday.