Eight policemen sustained injuries after a bus rammed into a police kiosk near the residence of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday.
The Uttar Pradesh government today signed MoUs for improved power supply in the state with special focus on renewable energy.
President Pranab Mukherjee has cancelled his visit to Himachal Pradesh next week owing to the natural disaster in the state, an official said in Shimla on Friday.
Tests by Singapore's Health Science Authority indicated the items were made of gold-plated copper except for hooks and fastenings.
Union minister EMS Natchiappan on Wednesday said that laws should be made stricter to ensure safe and secure environment for visitors in the country.
The GNLA, one of five Garo rebel groups fighting for a separate "Garoland" in western Meghalaya, is headed by police officer-turned-rogue Champion R Sangma.
The Gujarat High Court today commuted the death sentence awarded to two convicts in the 2007 Chandni rape and murder case, to life imprisonment.
The woman, a mother of two, said two men overpowered her when she was returning home from a temple. She managed to free herself and fled to the temple.
Banks should stagger the recovery of loans which had been given to customers who were dependent on the now-banned mining activities in Goa, South Goa MP Francisco Sardinha said on Monday.
The project formally opened by President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Monday comes as the Indian Ocean nation tries to make itself a strategically important economic center.
Goa's prison department has decided to initiate disciplinary action against its officials named in an inquiry committee report in the food poisoning suffered by 100-odd jail inmates in May.
Security measures have been tightened particularly in valley districts of Manipur to intercept movement of militants ahead of the Independence Day celebrations, police said on Saturday.
Militants locked a private school after the owners failed to pay Rs 30 lakh as extortion in Imphal West district of Manipur, officials said today.
The short message service (SMS) ban on prepaid mobile phones in Jammu and Kashmir seems ill-conceived since Twitter, Facebook and other smartphone facilities are freely available
Roads, bridges and hundreds of livestock were swept away following a cloudburst in Changut village of Lahaul and Spiti district, police said on Friday.
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Tremors of the magnitude of 5.4 on the Richter scale hit several parts of Himachal Pradesh at 8.03 am this morning, triggering panic, an official of the meteorological office told IANS.
A bench of justices GS Singhvi and V Gopala Gowda said the issue raised by the accused needs to be heard before taking up other pleas.
As part of the joint initiative, railways shall make land for the project available free of cost and render all possible assistance for completion of the project on time.
The committee will also consist of ministers Rokybul Hussain, Gautam Roy, Akon Bora, Nilamoni Sen Deka, Pradyut Bordoloi, Himanta Biswa Sarma and Ajit Singh.
The Border Security Force has seized 5,290 bottles of a cough syrup, also abused as an intoxicant, valued at over Rs 4.5 lakh from India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal in two different operations, an official release said on Thursday.
A government school located at Laluchak in Kahalgaon block has also been washed away due to soil erosion, the Kahalgaon block education officer said.
An Indian cancer patient, who campaigned against smoking in unusual ways such as confronting strangers in public places and pleading with them to quit smoking, succumbed to lung cancer in a Dubai hospital.
All passengers were safe after Airbus-320 flight AI-474, which took off from Biju Patnaik airport around on Tuesday midnight.
Nine houses were damaged in a landslide triggered by heavy rains in Sulat division of Almora district on Tuesday.
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Wednesday put his foot down on the possibility of dance bars officially starting in the state.
The critically wounded jawan who belonged to Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, succumbed to his injuries on the way to hospital.
Delhi Police have also appealed to the guardians of youths to rein in their wards to avoid accidents.
Frequent climatic shocks in the form of cyclones and floods in Sundarbans is playing havoc with the health of 4.5 million villagers staying in the fragile islands, experts say.