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Two women were electrocuted to death while a man trying to save them was injured in Karauli district of Rajasthan on Wednesday. The incident occurred in Todabhim area where the victims accidentally touched a hanging live wire in Jaisani village.

His confidence on a high after a tied 36th finish in the season-opening Safeway Open, Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri will look to continue his momentum when he makes his debut at the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship starting here on Thursday. T...

Naik allegedly jumped from the bathroom window of hishouse on Tuesday, a police official said, adding that no suicide note was found at his premises.

Allahabad University entrance test for UG and PG courses will be conducted at 104 test centres in 11 cities across the country.

A wanted member of a criminal gang active on the highways in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, including the Delhi-Agra Yamuna Expressway, was arrested after a gunfight with the Special Task Force in Mathura, police said Wednesday. Ramu (30), a member of the B...

A 54-year-old woman who had tested positive for the coronavirus last week allegedly killed herself at a hospital in Shimla in Himachal Pradesh early Wednesday, police said. The woman was admitted to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital after she tested positive...

A Hazaribagh court on Tuesday sentenced five persons to life imprisonment for the killing of gangster Sushil Srivastava and his two aides here in 2015. The 6th Additional District and Sessions Judge Hazaribag, Amit Shekhar, convicted all the five accuse...

Bihar Director General of Police (DGP) Gupteshwar Pandey on Tuesday took voluntary retirement from service, triggering speculations that the outspoken officer would contest the coming state Assembly polls. Pandey's request seeking voluntary retirement w...

United Nations, Sep 22 (AP) Chinese President Xi Jinping says his country will aim to stop pumping additional carbon dioxide, the main global warming gas, into the atmosphere by 2060. Xi's announcement during a speech Tuesday to the UN General Assembly...

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Tuesday removed Malook Nagar as the party's deputy leader in Lok Sabha and has replaced him withRam Shiromani Verma. In a letter to Speaker Om Birla, the BSP chief said the changes have been made with effect f...

The house of an aide of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari was raided here on Tuesday as an intensive campaign was launched to track down members of various gangs active in the district, police said. Police officials said that during the raid at t...

The government is trying to undertake river rejuvenation programmes on the lines of the Ganga mission in other parts of the country,a top official of the Jal Shakti Ministry said on Tuesday. Addressing a webinar, Jal Shakti Ministry secretary U P Singh...

Veteran Congress leader and former Rajasthan minister Zakia Inam has died at a hospital here due to COVID-19. She was 71. She died hours after she was admitted to Rajasthan University of Health Sciences Hospital (RUHS) Monday evening as she complained of...

According to a report, representation of SC/ST employees, who attended the training, seminars, symposia, conferences in foreign countries during the last five years, is inadequate.

Three persons from a wedding party, including the groom, were arrested for allegedly holding a procession without taking permission from local authorities amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Madhya Pradesh's Indore district, police said on Tuesday. The 22-yea...

In a major reshuffle, the Haryana government on Tuesday transferred 25 IPS and nine HPS officers from one place to another in the state with immediate effect, an official statement said here. The transferred officers include superintendents o...