India

216 children were born in the 132 villages of the Uttarkashi district in last three months. However, not a single girl was among the newborns.

The victim Shyam Sikarwar left a four-page suicide note, in which he apologised to his family for taking the extreme step and urged them to donate his organs.

In Bihar, 72.78 lakh people from 12 districts of the state have been hit by the calamity while in Assam 38.37 lakh people were affected in 18 of its 33 districts.

Their bodies were fished out around an hour later. According to police, they hailed from Sion suburb and had gone to Juhu for a picnic when the tragedy befell them.

The Kerala government has asked tourists to stay away from Shankumugham Beach in state capital Thiruvananthapuram, citing danger.

A throw to the stumps deflected off the bat of a diving Ben Stokes as he tried to complete a second run and raced to the boundary, with Sri Lankan umpire Kumar Dharmasena awarding six.

Fourteen people have so far been rescued from the Churchill Chamber building where the blaze erupted shortly after noon, officials said.

IRCTC, an undertaking of the Ministry of Railways, has entered into an agreement with three private insurance companies for its Optional Travel Insurance Scheme which was launched in September 2016 with a premium of Rs 0.92 per passenger.

Over 250 Rohingya Muslims have been detained during the past one year from different parts of the North-East, which share 2000 km long border with Bangladesh, say sources in the BSF and the police.

Mehta, who will continue to teach at the university, said he had increasingly begun to feel the tension between “my vocation as an academic and my obligations as an administrator.”

The Pakistani side resorted to unprovoked shelling with mortars and firing of small arms first in Krishna Ghati, then in Mankote and Shahpur sectors of the LoC.

They allegedly labeled him a thief and began beating him up. He was stripped, bathed in petrol and set on fire.

The Indian Meteorological Department has issued a Red Alert in Kasargod district for Saturday and Orange Alert for Idukki, Kannur, Kozhikode, Malappuram and Wayanad.

Meanwhile, the court also asked a panel of doctors to preserve the residue of the embryo so that it may be available for scientific investigation, if so needed.

The accused told the complainant that she had divine powers through which she could speak to Saibaba of Shirdi and help solve her family and employment-related problems.

Satish Kumar was arrested from Sikri village under Bhopa Police Station and produced in court after he allegedly posted messages against a particular religion