In 2013, 27 people, including Congress leaders, were killed in the Naxalite attack in the Jheeram Ghaati in Bastar district. Then state Congress chief Nand Kumar Patel, former leader of the opposition Mahendra Karma and former Union minister Vidyacharan Shukla were among those killed.
In a horrific incident, a 70-day-old boy was branded 51 times with a hot iron rod in the superstitious belief that it would cure him of his illness, a police officer said, adding that the incident took place in the Shahdol district of Madhya Pradesh.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday suo motu cognisance of a media report of a 23-year-old woman and her nine-month-old baby, who were electrocuted after they stepped on a live wire that lay unattended on a sidewalk near Hope Farm in the Kadugodi area of Bengaluru on Novem
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has on Tuesday issued an advisory to television channels to refrain from sensationalising the ongoing rescue operation underway at Silkyara in Uttarakhand and from undertaking any live posts or videos from close proximity of the tunnel site.
"The counting of votes for Mizoram assembly polls will take place on December 3, as decided by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in various districts. All the voting machines are securely placed in the strong rooms in various districts. We will be helping out the civil administration wi
Visuals of workers who have been trapped inside the tunnel in Uttarkashi have raised hopes among the near and dear ones who have converged at the incident site.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Mogan Reddy on Monday ordered the officials to conduct an inquiry into the fire incident at Visakhapatnam fishing harbour.
Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Monday announced compensation for the fishermen who lost their boats due to the fire in the Visakhapatnam fishing harbour on Monday. He ordered the officials to provide 80 per cent of the value of the burnt boats as compensation.