NEW DELHI: A 53-year-old woman was found murdered in her house in Lajpat Nagar IV in south-east Delhi on Tuesday evening. Police said that robbery appeared prima facie to be the motive for the crime since goods worth over Rs 10 lakh were discovered stolen from the house. The incident …

A Vile Parle resident’s decision to spend the night in another flat in the same building cost him dearly, after he woke up to find out that his other flat had been broken into. According to the police, the victim, Santosh Mithbavkar, 47, owns two flats on the third floor …

Mumba -An 18-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly molesting a woman journalist working in an English daily in suburban Vile Parle, a senior police official said on Wednesday. The incident took place on Monday night when the victim, who is in her thirties, was going towards Vile Parle railway …

A 38-year-old woman has claimed she was raped by two men after her husband “lost her” to them in a game of gambling in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore, police said on Wednesday. The woman registered a complaint during a weekly public hearing organised by police here yesterday. However, a case is …

Union Health Minister JP Nadda on Tuesday launched a family planning programme aimed at “stabilising” population growth in 146 districts of seven states that account for nearly 28 per cent of the country’s population.   The ‘Mission Parivar Vikas’ was launched at a function organised by the Jansankhya Sthirita Kosh …

Lucknow: A day after a terror attack on Amarnath Yatra pilgrims, Uttar Pradesh authorities on Tuesday sounded a high alert in the state’s areas along the India-Nepal border, an official said.   A senior home department officer said all border police stations like Nanpara, Motipur, Martha and Sujauli have been …

Three activists of the Hindu Yuva Vahini (HYV), an organisation floated by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, were arrested on charges of gangrape and thrashing a police officer in Bareilly. The incident took place last night following a dispute between one Deepak and Avinash over playing of loud music …

With an eye on the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Yogi Adityanath government today earmarked in its maiden budget Rs 1,240 crore for Ramayan, Buddhist and Krishna circuits in the pilgrim cities of Ayodhaya, Varanasi and Mathura.   The BJP government also allocated Rs 800 crore under the Prasad Yojana …

 Two Dahanu residents were among the seven Amarnath yatra pilgrims, who were killed in last evening’s terror strike at Anantnag. The victims, Nirmala Thakur, 53, and Usha Sonkar, 54, were residents of Santoshi Nagar, Dahanu. Mohanlal Sonkar, who lost his wife Usha in the attack, is yet to come to …

Ahmedabad: A class IV Hindi textbook of the the Gujarat State School Textbook Board has defined the Urdu word “roza,” which denotes the fasting during the holy month of Ramzan, as “an infectious disease that causes diarrhoea.” The serious error figures in the glossary carried at the end of legendary …