New Delhi, Uber cab driver Shiv Kumar Yadav was convicted by a court here on Tuesday for raping a woman executive on the night of December 5, 2014, in his taxi she hired to head back home. The sentencing will take place on October 23. Police said Yadav drove the woman, who lived in Inderlok […]
Ahmedabad, Three days after Nestle India announced 100 percent safety clearance of Maggi noodle samples, the Gujarat government on Monday announced lifting of the ban on selling the popular food item, a top official said. Gujarat Food and Drugs Control Authority (FDCA) Commissioner H.G. Koshia said the state government had lifted the ban – imposed […]
New Delhi, Juveniles who are 15 years old too must get death penalty if they commit rape, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Monday. The chief minister made the announcement after a cabinet meeting which discussed issues related to women’s safety, with particular emphasis on incidents of rape. “There should be death penalty or […]
New Delhi, President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday again appealed for tolerance as Hindu activists attacked a Jammu and Kashmir legislator with ink while the Shiv Sena forced the BCCI to call off talks with the PCB on reviving cricketing ties between India and Pakistan. And in Bengaluru, BJP activists heckled a young Australian man for sporting […]
Singapore: An Indian-origin business school has been rated among the world’s top 100 MBA institutions this year, according to a study. SP Jain School of Global Management, which has campuses in Dubai, Singapore, Sydney and Mumbai, is ranked 95th on the list by ‘The Economist’. “The Economist MBA rankings along with Financial Times and Forbes […]
If the union agriculture ministry is to be believed, not a single farmer’s suicide was registered in Bihar and Rajasthan in the past 15 years due to agrarian reasons. This is in sharp contrast to the data issued by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). Altogether, 7,927 suicides were recorded by people involved in agriculture/farming […]
A three-year-old child fell into a 100-foot-deep borewell on Sunday in a field in Madhya Pradesh’s Morena district. The army’s help has been sought in the rescue effort being carried out, a police official said. Raghav, son of villager Devendra Sharma, had gone along with his grandmother to the fields in Nand Gangoli village where […]
A day after a two-and-half-year-old was allegedly gang raped, her relatives on Sunday attacked one of the accused in hospital, prompting Delhi Police chief B.S.Bassi to assure action was being taken and to appeal for calm. The incident took place when one of the two accused, both minors, who are in police custody, were taken […]
Violence raged in parts of the Kashmir Valley on Sunday after a victim of the October 9 fire-bomb attack on a truck in Udhampur died in Delhi and separatists and others called for a bandh on Monday, police and residents said. Zahid Rasool Bhat, who was being treated for serious burn injuries in Delhi’s Safdarjung […]
Separatist-called protest shutdown and restrictions in the aftermath of Udhampur truck attack victim’s death affected normal life across the Kashmir Valley on Monday. Separatist leaders including Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, Muhammad Yasin Malik and others have called for a Valley-wide shutdown against the Udhampur truck attack in which a youth, Zahid Rasool Bhat, […]