News from India
Police have launched an investigation after an Indian MP admitted beating an airline employee with a slipper. Ravindra Gaikwad said he “hit him 25 times with my sandal” for “arrogance”… Continue reading Air India and 4 other airlines banned Indian MP who beat airline employee
EARLY WEDNESDAY morning, as J&K police and army launched an operation against three militants at a remote village in Kupwara, Makhini Begum and her family were fast asleep just metres… Continue reading Kashmir: Mother of 12-yr-old killed by stray bullet: ‘She was sleeping on my right arm’
The Indian flag hoisted so high that it can be seen from Lahore in Pakistan. Pakistan Rangers raised objection over the installation of the flag and regarding this they have… Continue reading India’s tallest tricolour hoisted near Attari-Wagah Border: Pakistan objects
Of the 670 candidates that made it to the Odisha civil services examination’s merit list last week, eight personified not just a triumph of mind, but also of grit and… Continue reading Eight visually-impaired candidates clear Odisha civil services exam
Temporary advances are sanctioned to meet petty and emergent expenditure where no condition is imposed initially regarding its utilisation or unspent balance if any. The salaries of 25 junior engineers… Continue reading Chandigarh: Salaries of 25 engineers in deep freeze after audit finds no record of Rs 48 crore
West Bengal Police has charged a BJP leader in a child trafficking case involving an NGO, which allegedly sold infants on the pretext of adoption. Juhi Choudhury, a BJP Mahila… Continue reading BJP woman leader charged in child trafficking case in north Bengal
JALANDHAR: Over six organisations of Indians, including those of Sikhs and Gujaratis, in Australia have sent a letter of protest against Air India addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and… Continue reading Hindu, Sikh bodies write to PM on ‘halal’ meat in Air India
The Supreme Court on Tuesday convicted AIADMK General Secretary VK Sasikala in a corruption case and sentenced her to jail for four years. A bench headed by Justice PC Ghosh… Continue reading Sasikala convicted in corruption case, gets 4-year jail
CHENNAI: After a long day at work, Selvi (42) hit the bed soon and was fast asleep when a weird sensation woke her up around midnight on Tuesday. She felt… Continue reading Doctors remove large live cockroach from woman’s head in Chennai
The northern Indian state of Punjab votes on Saturday for a new government. But the biggest issue confronting voters is not jobs or corruption, but a drugs epidemic that is… Continue reading Why has India’s Punjab fallen into the grip of drug abuse?
Hours after the murder of 25-year-old Infosys systems engineer on the company premises in Pune on Sunday and subsequent arrest of a security guard, police probe has revealed that the… Continue reading Pune techie murder: Warned for staring, guard killed 25-year-old Infosys engineer
Rasila Raju O P, a 25 year-old software engineer working with Infosys in Pune, was found strangulated to death on the premises of a software company in Hinjewadi late on… Continue reading Infosys techie found strangled with cable wire in company premises
