Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh), A major tragedy was averted after a Coast Guard Dornier 228 aircraft, which took off from Chennai, skidded off the runway during touchdown at the Chakeri airport here, rammed into a concrete structure and burst into flames.

The crew, including IAF personnel, who were scheduled to visit the

Kanpur Dehat (Uttar Pradesh), The Kanpur Dehat police have booked four persons in connection with the murder of the son of former BJP district president.

The incident took place on Saturday evening and the post-mortem report mentioned head injury as the cause of death.

Tripuresh, brother of the dece

Bijnor (UP), A 32-year-old man, accused of theft, died in police custody in Najibabad in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor district.

The man, Sunil Prajapati, was arrested on Friday and his family alleged that he was "tortured by the police".

SP Dharamveer Singh claimed that he was in an "in

Chennai,  Even as Chief Minister M.K. Stalin had asked the DMK dissenters to quit the posts of Municipal chairman and town panchayat president that they have 'snatched' from party allies, the dissenters are in no mood to quit.

In some places in the state the local DMK leaders contested for the po

Srinagar,  The woman injured in a grenade attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar city succumbed to injuries in the hospital on Monday taking the death toll to two.

"20-year old Rafiqa of Hazratbal, who had suffered multiple injuries in yesterday's grenade attack, has succumbed today in the h

Srinagar, Light rain lashed the plains and snow occurred in the higher reaches of J&K and Ladakh on Monday as the Meteorological (MeT) department forecast light rain and snow during the next 24 hours.

"Light rain and snow is expected in J&K during the next 24 hours," an official of the MeT depart

New Delhi, The Border Security Force (BSF) on Monday said that its alert troops shot down a drone which came from the Pakistan side in Punjab's Ferozepur sector.

According to the BSF officials, the forward deployed troopers heard the humming sound of a suspicious flying object around 0255 hours coming from the

Saras, the symbol of fidelity!

Valmiki, the author of Ramayana, is the Adi Kavi (first poet) who spontaneously uttered the first verse in the epic that begins with 'Manishada' when he was moved by the killing of a male bird to the utter agony of its partner.