Ex-MLA among 335 booked; 4 cops suspended

Four people were electrocuted while bathing in a river in Jharkhand Wednesday, police said.The incident took place at Jangipur village of Garwah district, around 140 km from here, after a high-voltage power cable snapped and fell into the river. The dead have ...

Calcutta, May 20: The CPM and the Congress will make gains and Trinamul will feel the pinch ? not the bite ? of anti-incumbency if the Lok Sabha polls are held now, according to the ABP News-The Nielsen Company opinion poll. The survey, carried out ...

The recent Bharatiya Janata Party state in-charge appointments have sparked certain speculation over the party’s strategy in the upcoming general elections, notes Renu Mittal. Is the BJP working to polarise the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, hoping to gain by garnering the Hindu votes in its favour? It certainly looks like that, particularly in states like Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, where there is a big percentage of Muslim votes, and most of the parties -- apart from the BJP -- are ...

Actor Mithun Chakraborty campaigns for External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee at Jangipur in Murshidabad district. After the Kannada version hosted by south star Sudeep was launched recently, a Bengali version of Bigg Boss will soon be aired, ...

A number of Expert Committees had been set up by Government of India in the past for study of the flood problem in various parts of the country and to suggest ways and means for minimising frequent occurrence of floods.

Six decades after India's partition made Muslim politics a dirty word, parties founded by Muslims to espouse the cause of the country's largest minority are again making a mark. Muslims in Varanasi, India, February 2009 ( Toby Williams | ...

Locals protesting the death of a 23-year-old Dalit youth allegedly by police torture turned violent as they set fire to police vehicles at a police post in Ghazipur district on Monday. Heavy force has been deployed in the area to maintain calm.

An uneven, dusty stretch of land on the edge of the road in Sorberia is awash with people, some sitting on plastic chairs, others milling around in small groups. There don't seem to be any women. It's an hour or so before sunset on April 18. I am ...

India News: Madhya Pradesh industries minister Kailash Vijayvargiya, Known for his controversial statements, targetted Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi saying that nobody in Madhya Pradesh would watch the "movie" which was a flop in Uttar ...