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Bengaluru: Police investigation into the gruesome Mahalaxmi murder case in Bengaluru has revealed that her colleague and alleged lover -- a native of Odisha -- killed her in a fit of rage and chopped her body into 59 pieces with an axe blade. The accused...

Kolkata: Five days after partially resuming duties at government-run hospitals in West Bengal following a 42-day ‘cease work,' junior doctors Thursday sent an email to Chief Secretary Manoj Pant reminding him of their unmet demands discussed during their September 18 meeting. In the two-page letter,...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has hosted India’s young chess players at his official residence for their historic feat at the 45th Chess Olympiad in Budapest, where both the men’s and women’s teams clinched their maiden gold medals. The teams presented him with a...

Mumbai: A Mumbai Court has found Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut guilty in a 2022 defamation case filed by Medha K. Somaiya -- wife of ex- Bharatiya Janata Party MP Kirit Somaiya -- and awarded him 15 days jail plus a fine of Rs...

Thiruvananthapuram: A month after the explosive Hema Committee report was published and more than a dozen Malayalam film personalities are in the dock, a two-member National Commission for Women (NCW) team is slated to arrive here Thursday to take statements from victims. The NCW committee...

Kolkata: Contradictory statements were made by the forensic surgeon and an autopsy assistant, both of whom were part of the team that conducted a post-mortem on the body of R.G. Kar rape-murder victim, during their interrogation by the CBI, said sources here Thursday. The two...

Itanagar/Kohima: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has extended the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) in certain districts of Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland for another six months with effect from October 1, officials said Thursday. An MHA notification said that the AFSPA has been...

Imphal: Days after claiming that 900 Kuki militants were planning to attack peripheral villages of Imphal valley districts around September 28, the Manipur government retracted its statement and asserted that the likelihood of "any such misadventures by armed groups is minimal and unsubstantiated". In a...

Beirut: The Indian Embassy in Beirut has issued an advisory strongly urging Indian citizens against travelling to Lebanon till further notice following the recent incident of airstrikes and blasts in communication devices. They have also advised the Indian nationals residing in Lebanon to leave the...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday granted bail to DMK leader and former Tamil Nadu Minister V. Senthil Balaji, who was arrested last year in connection with a money laundering case linked to an alleged cash-for-jobs scam. Allowing the appeal, a bench presided over by...