New Delhi: A 31-year-old man and his wife have allegedly committed suicide by hanging themselves from a ceiling fan in south Delhi’s Neb Sarai, police said today.

According to police, Ram Chandra and his wife Neetu (27) were found hanging from the fan by Chandra’s mother this morning.

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court-mandated EPCA today withdrew the ban on construction activities, entry of trucks and enhanced parking fees from across Delhi-NCR as air quality remained out of the ’emergency’ category for the second straight day.

The measures, part of the Graded Response Action Plan, were enfor

Jodhpur: Ganga Kumari is all set to break the glass ceiling after the direction of the Rajasthan High Court to appoint her as the state’s first transgender police constable.

Ganga, who appeared for the exam in 2013, has fought a long battle to claim her right to don the uniform.

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Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami has taken up with Prime Minister Narendra Modi the issue of alleged firing on two fishermen by the Indian Coast Guard and sought his intervention to avoid recurrence of such incidents.

He said six fishermen from Rameswaram had ventured out for fishing in a mechanise

Chennai: A Doha-bound flight carrying 134 passengers today suffered a bird hit, prompting it to return here, airport officials said.

The aeroplane operated by a private airline suffered the bird hit after taking off from the Anna International Airport here, they added.

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Hyderabad: A ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) party leader was killed by unidentified persons suspected to be his own party members in Hyderabad on Thursday.

The body of TRS leader V Srinivasa Rao, 40, who hails from Andhra Pradesh, was found near an under construction building at Sanathnagar on Thursday morning.

Mysuru: In a tragic incident, a worker was crushed to death after he accidentally came in contact with a machine at a J K Tyres factory in Metagalli on Thursday.

The deceased, identified as Ravi (22), was working as a daily wager. He was working in the tube section when his hand accidentally slipped into the machine crushing the upper

Washington: Smog-filled cities in north India and Pakistan will continue to experience dangerous level of air quality over the next several months, a top American atmospheric organisation has said, warning that the cities could turn into dangerously unhealthy “snow globes”.

“This is just the start to the smog season i

Bhubaneshwar: The IMD today forecast heavy to very heavy rainfall along Odisha’s coastal regions in the next 24 hours, even as farmers struggled to safeguard their kharif crop from the unseasonal downpour.

The state has been experiencing rainfall since November 13, due to a low pressure formation, which late