India

New Delhi, Jul 11: Heavy overnight rains resulted in waterlogging in areas across the city and commuters had to face inconvenience because of heavy traffic jams. Delhi continued to reel under massive traffic jams due to waterlogging as heavy rains lashed the city for second consecutive day on Saturday flooding several arterial roads and leaving commuters stranded for hours while exposing civic

Guwahati, Jul 11: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today favoured reduction in deployment of central forces in the North East in view of the improved security scenario in the region. "In the wake of improvement in security scenario, there is a need to review deployment of security forces in the region. At present the deployment is more than it was when the insurgency was at its peak," he told a

Mussoorie, Jul 11: An ITBP jawan today went on a shooting spree killing his officer and injuring another personnel inside the prestigious IAS academy here, a day after he was punished by the senior. The misery for the force did not stop here as the accused constable, Chandra Shekar, ran away with an assault rifle and 70 rounds of bullets from Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration

Chennai/ New Delhi, Jul 11: After a little more than a month of intensive search, the debris of the missing Coast Guard Dornier aircraft and its Flight Data Recorder were located on Friday off Tamil Nadu coastline, a top official said. "We have found the debris of the aircraft and the flight data recorder of the missing Dornier today and it was found in the location of search along Tamil Nadu

Chennai, Jul 10: An aerobridge operator, reportedly talking on his mobile, hit a GoAir Airbus A-320 with the aerobridge while aligning the same with the aircraft at Chennai airport on Friday morning. The fuselage of the Airbus A-320 near the front door got punctured and the aircraft has been grounded. Picture of the part of GoAir Airbus A-320 aircraft's fuselage that got punctured after being hit

Patna, Jul 10: Acceding to the demands made by the women here, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today promised to impose a ban on liquor when he forms the government next time. Kumar's promise came in response to demands made by some women in the midst of his address at a Village Dialogue Programme of the Social Welfare department here. "When I form government next time, a ban would be imposed on

Ufa/Russia, Jul 10: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet his Pakistani counterpart, Nawaz Sharif, on the sidelines of a summit in the Russian city of Ufa on Friday, raising hopes of a thaw in frosty ties between the South Asian rivals. The external affairs ministry confirmed that the talks will take place at 9:15am. “It is confirmed. The two prime ministers will have a bilateral meeting at 9

New Delhi, July 9: AAP MLA Manoj Kumar, who was arrested in connection with a case of alleged cheating and land grabbing, was today remanded to two-day police custody by a Delhi court. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Saurabh Pratap Singh Laler sent Kumar, MLA from Kondli in east Delhi, to police custody till July 11 after investigating agency said some recoveries were to be made from him

New Delhi/Bhopal, Jul 9: The Supreme Court today ordered a CBI probe into the massive admission and recruitment scam in Madhya Pradesh as more skeletons tumbled out of the Vyapam cupboard with the death of yet another witness coming to light. The Supreme Court, while directing CBI to probe all cases of the Vyapam scam and alleged deaths of persons related to it, also and issued notices to the

Mumbai, Jul 9: Mumbai is in the throes of a leptospirosis scare after 12 people have succumbed to the disease in the past week. According to reports, doctors have said that the disease is easily curable with antibiotics, but most victims came so late for treatment that they died soon after hospitalisation. The casualties were mostly among people from the western suburbs of the city, under the age