AJMER: A Rajasthan politician has landed in an embarrassing controversy after a photo of him urinating near a wall, right next to a BJP campaign poster went viral on social media. Defending himself, Shambhu Singh Khatesar, the chairman of Rajasthan…

NEW DELHI: The average temperature in the national capital increased by one degree Celsius, by 0.7 degree in Mumbai, 0.6 degree in Chennai and 1.2 degrees in Kolkata in over a century-and-a-half. These startling revelations by Britain-based CarbonBrief came when…

RINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir is voting for the first phase of civic polls that has been boycotted by the two key parties in the Valley, National Conference and Mehbooba Mufti's People's Democratic Party. Elections are being held in 422 of…

NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probing the sexual abuse of minor girls at a shelter home in Muzaffarpur has found a human skeleton - believed to be remains of one of the victims - at a cremation…

KOLKATA: A court in Kolkata will decide on October 9 whether actor Vikram Chatterjee will get relief in the case of the death of model and TV host Sonika Chauhan in a car crash in Kolkata last April or whether…

NEW DELHI: Mayawati on Wednesday called "strike two" on the Congress as she ruled out any alliance with the party in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, two of the four states where elections are due in the year-end. Last month, she…

MANDYA, KARNATAKA: A man in Karnataka's Mandya district chopped off his friend's head after he allegedly tried to sexually assault his mother. After the incident, Pashupati brought Girish's severed head to a police station and surrendered. This was the third…

BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday announced that his government will set up a cow welfare ministry to ensure that cattle in the state are treated well. "I have reason to believe that the Cow Protection…

NEW DELHI: A 20-year-old woman was allegedly raped and then thrown off the fourth floor of a house in Delhi in a semi-naked condition by a man who was later arrested, the police said. The incident was reported from Begumpur…

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will today visit the hospital in Gorakhpur where the deaths of 63 children over the last five days has sparked massive outrage. Battling intense criticism, the Chief Minister, on Saturday, said that the…