India

Curfew-like restrictions were imposed in Sirsa on Thursday in view of the rape case judgement against sect head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.

Kurukshetra SP Abhishek Garg said that it had sealed all Naam Charcha Ghars (congregation centres) of Dera Sacha Sauda in the district, evicting the followers, and had seized over 2,500 lathis and sharp-edged weapons.

As journalists, we are tuned to smell trouble. And we smelt it at least 24 hours before the theatre of absurd began in the residential areas of Panchkula.

CBI has registered 10 FIRs in the multi-crore Srijan scam, which was being investigated by the Economic Offences Unit (EOU) of the Bihar Police.

Police said that two buses were torched in northeast Delhi's Loni Chowk and Jyoti Nagar, allegedly by Dera Sacha Sauda supporters. The supporters furthered two coaches of Rewa Express were set on fire.

An estimated 1.5 lakh Dera Sacha Sauda followers including men, women and children have gathered in Panchkula, where a CBI court is set to deliver its verdict in a rape case against Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh on Friday.

The student, identified as Raunak Singha, is a student of Garbeta High School. His father Swapan Kumar Singha is a clerk at Garbeta court. Family members said the boy had completed four stages, including watching a horror movie and went quiet for the enti...

The woman, a resident of Mohalla Kamra Nawaban in Meerut, filed a complaint filed with the police alleged that her husband beat her up for dowry and drove her out of their house, PTI reported.

The apex court asked the petitioners to deposit the fine within a period of one month from Thursday and said that the amount should be sent to the Prime Minister Relief Fund.

The bench, which favoured "overarching" guidelines to protect private information in public domain, said there was a need to "maintain the core of privacy" as the notion of privacy was fast becoming irrelevant in an all-pervading technological era.

According to Kapil Sibal, the verdict in the Triple Talaq case did not represent the majority opinion of the bench.

While China tries to make further inroads into Nepal, India too is keen to show Kathmandu that it cherishes the relations based on historical, geographic and cultural affinity between the two.

Calling it “Karnataka Darshan”, a group of 56 KSRP personnel started of the journey on 12th July from Bidar and finished the tour by arriving at Vidhan Soudha on 25th July.

The teenager jumped off the fourth floor of a residential building in north-west Delhi's Ashok Vihar area on Wednesday. The police said that the teenager left his slippers, spectacles and mobile phone before leaping off the building, PTI reported.

The victim's relatives alleged that there were "regular" demands of dowry from her in-laws.

Six Bogies of the Utkal Express derailed near Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday evening. Officials said casualties are feared and rescue operation is on.