India Wednesday said its 40 nationals working for a Turkish construction company have been abducted in violence-hit Iraq's Mosul area, which has been taken over by Sunni militants.
The Mumbai police Crime Branch is probing a complaint about alleged mafia threats to well-known industrialist Nusli Wadia related to a complaint filed against his son Ness by Bollywood actress Preity Zinta, officials said here Wednesday.
Uttar Pradesh Governor B.L. Joshi resigned Tuesday, as the Narendra Modi government's apparent move to nudge some UPA-appointed governors to step down turned into a political confrontation, with the Congress terming the move "dictatorial" and "political vendetta".
As the situation in Iraq worsened, the Indian government called in the Iraqi envoy here to discuss ways of helping Indian nationals trapped in the affected areas of Mosul and Tikrit and also held a crisis management meeting.
Wide roads, greener parks, cleaner water bodies and more toilets figure in the urban development ministry's action plan to "beautify" Delhi, an official said Monday.
On June 16, 2013, there was unusually heavy rain in Uttarakhand. In the catchment area of the upper Ganga tributaries, rain water flooded the valleys, washing away huge rocks and trees with it, and caused a huge loss to life and property. More than 5,000 people were dead and missing in the state.