Panaji,  Goa Forward Party President Vijai Sardesai on Friday wrote to the Chief Secretary of the state requesting him to take steps to prevent Karnataka from allegedly constructing the Bandaras (weir) and stop any attempts from diverting the water of the Mhadei River.

Quoting environmentalist Rajendra K

Bengaluru,  A woman was arrested in Bengaluru for killing her four-year-old mentally challenged daughter by throwing her from the fourth floor of a building, police said on Friday.

The accused, a dentist, thought that her child, who was also unable to speak, had proved to be an impediment to her progress

New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Friday declined to entertain a PIL by Hindu Sena challenging the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security's decision to allow Sikh passengers to carry kirpan on domestic flights.

A bench comprising Justices S. Abdul Nazeer and J.K. Maheshwari told the petitioner organisation to mo

New Delhi,  Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who was detained earlier in the day on Friday by the Delhi Police, has been kept at new police lines, Kingsway Police camp, here in the national capital, a Delhi Police official said.

"They were detained from the North fountain near Parliament. They are deta

Chennai,  Police have arrested nine men associated with a 15-member gang for kidnapping a woman from her house in Tamil Nadu's Mayiladuthurai. Six of the accused are currently absconding.

The 23-year-old woman, who was kidnapped on Tuesday night by the gang which also included her estranged lover, wa

Kolkata,  Veteran Trinamool Congress leader and four-time MLA Tapas Roy claimed on Monday that Partha Chatterjee, who's presently in ED custody as the prime accused in the WBSSC teacher recruitment scam, might have past records of being involved in conspiracies against others.

Roy was referring to a

New Delhi,   The police in Canada have issued a public warning identifying 11 men, including nine of Indian origin, linked to extreme levels of gang violence.

The Indian origin criminals named in the list are -- Shakiel Basra (28), Amarpreet Samra (28), Jagdeep Cheema (30), Ravinder Sarma (35), Bari

Panaji,  The Goa government has decided to take up the issue of 'e-Visa' to the UK with the Central government to help the tourism industry of the state.

Goa tourism Minister Rohan Khaunte on Thursday said that providing e-Visa is also important for the state to get the same flow of people, which

Bharuch (Gujarat),  Four armed robbers looted around Rs 44 lakh from Union Bank's Ankleshwar branch in Bharuch, Gujarat, on Thursday afternoon.

After a brief exchnage of fire that took place when they were escaping from the spot, the police managed to injure and arrest one of the robbers, who is pres

Thiruvananthapuram,  Congress' Kerala unit General Secretary Prathapavarma Thampan, who had a fall in his house on Thursday evening, later passed away at a hospital in Kollam, party sources said. He was 62.

Thampan was MLA from Chathanoor Assembly constituency in Kollam from 2001-06, but lost in the