The run-up to the parliamentary election in Punjab is taking the state to a new high. Security agencies have seized drugs and other intoxicants worth nearly Rs.700 crore in the last 40 days.
At least 45 people were injured when nine coaches of a passenger train derailed near Guwahati in Assam Wednesday, authorities said.
Polling begins at 7 a.m. Thursday in 121 Lok Sabha constituencies spread over 12 states in the sixth phase of staggered general election, officials said Wednesday.
Amid a controversy over his remarks opposing death penalty for rape, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has told the NCW that he holds rape to be a heinous crime deserving stern punishment but believed that capital punishment should be used only in the rarest of rare cases.
Indian Mujahideen suspects Tehsin Akhtar alias Monu and Pakistani national Waqas alias Zia-ur-Rehman were planning to carry out blasts in Delhi in 2012 with the help of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Delhi Police Tuesday told a court here.
Transgenders should be treated as a third category and as a socially and economically backward class entitled to job reservation, the Supreme Court said Tuesday. Activists termed the verdict "revolutionary" but said social acceptance will take longer because of the stigma associated with them.