Kolkata,  In a unique initiative, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee will roll out 'Students' Credit Card' on Wednesday. The one-of project of the state government is an effort to provide soft loan up to Rs 10 lakh to the students for educational purposes.

"In order to further en

New Delhi,  There seems to be no respite from the scorching heat as the national capital on Wednesday witnessed the first severe heat wave of the year with its maximum temperature soaring to 43-degree Celsius, the highest recorded so far this year, the met department said.

Lodhi Road, Ri

Sitapur (Uttar Pradesh),  A 'tantrik' has been arrested in Ramkot village of Sitapur for allegedly thrashing a 16-year-old girl with a belt and burning her with incense sticks on the pretext of treating her severe stomach aches.

The incident came to light after the girl's condition turned cri

Agartala,  In a political development, an MLA of the ruling Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT), a junior ally of the BJP, resigned on Tuesday night from the Assembly citing "personal ground".

With the resignation of the IPFT legislator Brishaketu Debbarma, the strength of membershi

Bengaluru,  As proof of the pandemic's second wave waning, recoveries from Covid crossed 27 lakh in Karnataka and Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa on Tuesday said that the state government was working out modalities to unlock the state further after July 5.

After a meeting with member

Agra,  An undertrial prisoner, accused of gang-rape, allegedly hanged himself in the Agra district jail premises, said officials. The family, however, suspects foul play.

The deceased, identified as Yogesh Kumar, 25, was one of the accused in a case of gang-rape that took place in March, the jail authori

Bijnor (Uttar Pradesh),  A 64-year-old man has been booked for allegedly beating his widowed daughter-in-law in full public view.

A video of a man brutally thrashing a woman, tied up with a chain, on a street in the Haldaur region of Bijnor had gone viral on social media.

The video clip sh

Jammu,   Four persons were killed and another four injured on Wednesday in a road accident on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in J&K's Ramban district.

Police sources said a vehicle carrying brick kiln workers from Jammu to Srinagar went out of the driver's control a

Lucknow,  An FIR has been lodged at the Mahanagar police station here after the recovery of fake currency notes in the currency chest of the Reserve Bank of India.

Mohit Priyadarshi, assistant manager, Reserve Bank of India, Gomti Nagar, informed the police that 44 fake currency notes (one in the denomin

Shahjahanpur (Uttar Pradesh),  The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has registered another FIR against two Delhi-based clerics, who have been accused of forcibly converting scores of people to Islam.

The case involves the conversion of a Hindu girl in Shahjahanpur district.

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