Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Wednesday ordered an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh to the families of the minors who died of drowning in a lake in the Kanchipuram district.
In a shocking incident, a group of villagers of a remote village in Assam's Sonitpur district along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border physically tortured four fellow villagers and branded them as practising witchcraft, police said on Tuesday.
Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) vice-president NVSS Prabhakar on Tuesday said that Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao-led government cannot take credit for the villages in Telangana receiving more national gram panchayat awards.
Little Seerat Naaz, the girl from the remote Lohai-Malhar village of Jammu's Kathua district who, in a viral video, flagged the sorry state of her school and urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to direct urgent repairs, aspires to be an IAS officer.
"A couple, identified as Hemubhai Makwana and Hansa Makwana made a 'Havan Kund', wherein their decapitated heads were found, for a year and used to offer prayers there. A blade and rope were found on the spot were found along with the bodies of the couple," Gondal Deputy Superintendent of Po
The NGO has submitted a proposal which has already been discussed with the District administration to create a book village in Aragam village in collaboration with the J-K government.
"The curfew has been imposed from 7 pm to 6 am and the schools and Anganwadi centres of Rikhanikhal and Dhumakot tehsils will remain closed on 17 and 18 April," the order reads.
After 2019, the border areas in Jammu and Kashmir have turned from sleeping hamlets into vibrant places. Facilities which the people had not even dreamt of have been provided to them.
"Assam Rifles in an operation apprehended two active OGWs of NSCN K(YA) in Khanu village, Tirap District, Arunachal Pradesh on April 16," the press release said.
A team of Sara-i-Alamgir Sadar police reached the mosque after the locals called them and arrested the 30-year-old suspect on blasphemy charges and making an attempt on the life of another man at a mosque at Puraan village in Gujrat.