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Amritsar, March 30 – Punjab BJP President Sunil Jakhar said on Monday that the police investigation into the death of state Warehousing Corporation district manager Gagandeep Randhawa has once again proven that the state government “intends to delay and weaken the case”.He said the BJP would...

Pakur (Jharkhand), March 30 – Police in the Pakur district of Jharkhand have arrested an advocate on charges of sexually exploiting a law student and blackmailing her after allegedly filming the assault, police officials said on Monday.The accused has been identified as Joel Murmu. Police said...

New Delhi, March 30 A Delhi court on Monday ordered the detention of a suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative, Shabir Ahmed Lone, for five days in police custody.Judicial Magistrate Vijayshree Rathore allowed the city police's plea for five days of interrogation of the accused.Describing...

Dewas, March 30 An agent for telecom companies was arrested in Dewas, Madhya Pradesh, for allegedly issuing 84 SIM cards to different people using a single photograph, a police official said on Monday.Kotwali police station in-charge Shyamchandra Sharma identified the accused as Abrar, also...

New Delhi, March 30 Union Women and Child Development Minister Annapurna Devi has described the alleged rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl in Jharkhand's Hazaribagh district as "heartbreaking" and has demanded the immediate arrest and strict punishment of those responsible.Devi said she met...

Palghar, March 30 In a brutal, premeditated murder, a 26-year-old man, who suspected his wife's fidelity, allegedly stabbed her to death with the help of his friend in a remote village in Maharashtra's Palghar district, police said on Monday.According to the Mira Bhayandar Vasai Virar (MBVV)...

Jaipur, March 30 Days after two men had gone missing from a village in Rajasthan's Ajmer district, their bodies were recovered from a well on Monday, with police suspecting that they were killed and thrown into the well, police said.The incident came to light after residents of Jaitpura...

New Delhi, March 30 A 26-year-old man was arrested in southwest Delhi's Dwarka for allegedly displaying a firearm on social media to create fear and gain attention, police said on Monday.Police arrested Ritik Kharab on March 29, and recovered a pistol and two live cartridges from him, they...

Wellington, March 30 – New Zealand's largest-ever drug bust has revived focus on Baltej Singh, the nephew of Satwant Singh – one of the two bodyguards involved in the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984 – highlighting a complex intersection of "international...

Bengaluru, March 30 In what appears to be a case of road rage, a car driver was allegedly chased and assaulted by two auto-rickshaw drivers following a minor road incident on Sarjapur Road here, police said on Monday.The incident occurred on March 25 around 8.20 pm when Shriraj Bhardwaj, a...

Ranchi, March 30 Police have arrested 10 members of a gang, which is alleged to have been involved in multiple cases of robbery across Ranchi in Jharkhand, officials said on Monday.Over the past two weeks, six cases have been registered against them at five police stations, SP (City) Parans...

New Delhi, March 30 A Delhi court that extended the NIA custody of seven foreign nationals in a terror conspiracy case last week emphasized the sensitive nature of the case and said that several questions needed to be answered to ascertain things like the motive of the accused behind coming to...

Koppal (Karnataka), March 30 – The Karnataka Police have launched a search for a man involved in a series of unusual thefts targeting women's undergarments in the Gangavathi town of Koppal district over the past few days.This development has caused concern among residents in the area.The...

Varanasi (UP), March 30 A 16-year-old boy was allegedly beaten to death with sticks over suspicion of mobile theft here, police said on Monday.According to police, on Saturday night, when Sonu Ali (16) was at his house, six people entered and accused him of stealing a mobile phone.The...

Visakhapatnam, March 30 – In a horrific incident, a man in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, allegedly murdered his girlfriend, chopped her body into pieces, kept some parts in a refrigerator at his apartment, and burned her head, police said on Monday.Chintada Ravindra (35), an employee in the...

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, March 30 Unidentified occupants of a van allegedly attacked a goods vehicle driver and severed his genitals after a quarrel over stopping at a sharp turn in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district, Maharashtra, police said on Monday.The incident occurred on Saturday night...

Bhadohi (UP), March 30 Two employees of a carpet export company allegedly entered their colleague's rented room here and raped his 32-year-old wife, police said on Monday.Superintendent of Police (SP) Abhinav Tyagi said the woman's husband, from the city kotwali area, works at a carpet export...

Malappuram (Kerala), March 30 A man has been arrested for allegedly attempting to extort money from a relative of IUML state president Sayyid Sadikkali Shihab Thangal by threatening to circulate defamatory images of the leader online in Perinthalmanna, police said on Monday.The accused...

New Delhi, March 30 The Delhi Police has arrested a man from Mysuru, Karnataka, for allegedly sending over 1,100 false bomb threats to schools, high courts, and government offices across the country, officials said on Monday.The accused, identified as Srinivas Louis, 47, was apprehended from...

Chandigarh, March 29 A local Congress leader was killed after he was attacked with an axe by two unidentified men on Sunday evening in Ludhiana district, Punjab, police said.Parminder Tiwari, the block president of the Congress from Machhiwara, had provided rental accommodation for migrant...