Angered by teasing, a minor accused strangulated an eight-year-old girl to death in Palghar district of Maharashtra, said police on Thursday. Following the incident, police held the accused and his father.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami paid floral tribute to the late General Bipin Rawat, the country's first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), at his statue on his death anniversary at the military base in Dehradun on Friday.
The medical superintendent of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, wrote to the director of the prestigious institute on Thursday with regard to the death of a 14-year-old leukaemia patient.
Condoling the death of a police officer in a terrorist attack, Jammu and Kashmir Police chief RR Swain on Thursday vowed to have stronger resolve in fighting terrorism in the Union Territory.
The US military will be grounding its entire fleet of V-22 Ospreys, a week after the crash incident in Japan resulted in the deaths of all eight aboard, CNN reported.
The Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday said that India's Ambassador in Qatar had consular access on December 3 to meet all eight ex-Navy personnel in prison who were sentenced to death in Qatar and two hearings have been held on their appeal.
The measures taken by the central government are preventing the development of the country and this will be explained to the people by the Nava Kerala Sadas, said Vijayan.
The death toll in a fire that broke out in Arshi shopping mall and residential flats near Ayesha Manzil, Karachi, rose to four, and two individuals sustained injuries.
The grim event unfolded when the zoo administration arrived to feed the tigers and found the man's body within the tigers' enclosure. The circumstances surrounding how the man and his body ended up in the zoo remain unclear at this time.
On Mahaparinirvan Diwas, commemorating the death anniversary of BR Ambedkar, the Parliamentary Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes on Wednesday presented a detailed report outlining key recommendations.