Washington, Aug 13 (IANS) Leading US advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Pakistani authorities to carry out a prompt, independent and transparent criminal probe into the deaths of a woman and a 17-year-old girl in police custody in Punjab province on August 5.
Nanded (Maharashtra), Aug 13 (IANS) Shiromani Akali Dal chief and former Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal was injured in an attack at a gurudwara in Maharashtra's Nanded on Thursday.
Kolkata, Aug 13 (IANS) The West Bengal Police on Thursday arrested Nirmal Ghosh, former Trinamool Congress legislator and the party’s ex-Chief Whip in the Assembly, in connection with the 2024 rape and murder of a female junior doctor of state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.
Mumbai, Aug 13 (IANS) A 55-year-old man, who was to board a flight to Delhi from Mumbai airport, was detained by police after he jokingly remarked about a "bomb" in his bag but was later released with a warning, officials said on Thursday.
United Nations, Aug 13 (IANS) A terrorism monitoring team of the Security Council has declared the deadly Red Fort suicide car bombing that killed 11 people the work of Al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), which it warned is spreading its tentacles across the region.
Kolkata, Aug 13 (IANS) Wahab Alam, the Pakistani national arrested from Habra in West Bengal, had plans to escape to neighbouring Bangladesh for some time, but only to come back to the state with a new identity and new assignments.
Washington, Aug 13 (IANS) A 17-year-old Indian-American boy in Acton, a town about 40 kilometres northwest of Boston, has been charged with murdering his mother and younger brother after investigators said he had used the Internet and ChatGPT to search for ideas or fantasies about killing his family.
New Delhi, Aug 12 (IANS) Pakistan's airstrikes on people it calls its own crosses a moral and political line that civilised societies refuse to breach, yet remains with many precedents.
New Delhi, Aug 12 (IANS) A new video has surfaced showing the fatal road accident involving Aban Ahmed, the youngest son of late gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed, with the dashcam footage capturing the moments leading up to the crash, in which he and another vehicle occupant lost their lives.
Kolkata, Aug 12 (IANS) Wahab Alam, the Pakistani national arrested in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, was sent by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to collect information about the Indian Army, Navy and Railways in the eastern sector of the country.
