A four-year-old boy was killed and two women were injured when a cylinder used for filling balloons with gas exploded in Maharashtra’s Nagpur city, police said on Monday. The blast occurred in front of the Bishop Cotton School ground under Sadar police station limits around 8.30 pm on Sunday, an official said. The boy, Sizan…
A 17-year-old boy died here after allegedly ingesting pesticide while his family members were asleep, police said on Monday. The incident occurred Sunday night in Sinota village under the Khatoli police station area. Police are yet to ascertain if it is a case of suicide or accidental consumption of the poisonous substance, Assistant Police Sub-Inspector…
A 24-year-old man was stabbed to death when a scuffle broke out between two groups at a birthday party here, police said on Monday. At least seven people have been booked in connection with the incident that took place on Sunday evening, they said. Manoj Suman (24), a resident of Baran district’s Mirzapur village, had…
Alexei Navalny, the jailed Russian opposition leader, has been moved to a penal colony in the Arctic, allies said Monday after they lost touch with him for over two weeks, CNN reported. ”We have found Alexey. He is now in IK-3 in the settlement of Kharp in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District. His lawyer visited him today….
The Aligarh Police on Monday said it has registered a case in connection with objectionable slogans found scribbled on the wall of a mosque in the Old City area here and was working to identify those responsible. Superintendent of Police (City) M Shekhar Pathak said the case was registered against unidentified persons on Sunday after…
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party on Monday said that it will challenge the election commission’s decision to declare its intra-party polls as unconstitutional and revoke the iconic ‘cricket bat’ symbol in the Peshawar High Court. A five-member panel of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday rejected the organisational elections of Khan’s party and its…
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday said former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had a “soft spot” for the northeast, which was reflected in his policies “favouring” the region. Mr Sarma also said those “pro-northeast” policies are now being taken forward by the present regime. Attending the ‘Susashan Divas’ (good governance day) celebration…
The status of what was a Nicaragua-bound Airbus A340 with 303 passengers – several of whom are Indian, 11 are unaccompanied minors and one is an infant – remains uncertain, with news agency PTI reporting this evening it remains grounded at a Paris airport over human trafficking links. It appears many of those on board…
Roads in Himachal Pradesh are witnessing massive traffic congestion as several tourists have started to throng to the hill stations in the state for Christmas and New Year celebrations. And amid this rush, a tourist found an ingenious way to beat the traffic – ditching roads for a drive across a river. In a video,…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said his government follows the principle of good governance that has got public service, not power, at its center. Releasing the first series of 11 volumes of collected works of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya at a function here, PM Modi said his government is setting up several institutions committed…