The Congress on Thursday asked why the BJP had stayed away from voting against the Nitish Kumar government in the Bihar Assembly on Wednesday.

A 24-year-old woman was allegedly raped in a car in Mianwali Nagar area of West Delhi, the police said on Monday.
A senior police official said that according to the victim, she was kidnapped by a man, who was in a car, from near the Udyog Vihar Metro Station and was dumped in Mangolpuri after being raped.

India skipper Mithali Raj blamed the “off-colour” bowlers for India’s early exit in the ICC Women’s World Cup. The hosts failed to qualify for the Super Six stage after a humiliating 138-run loss to Sri Lanka in the last league game at Brabourne Stadium here on Tuesday.

Unlike the Men in Blue, the women cricketers get their share of recognition once every four years when they participate in the World Cup.

It is tragic that it took an episode as horrific as the rape of a young woman in a Delhi bus on December 19 to shake India out of its complacency over such crimes. We should be collectively grateful for the awakening, and collectively ashamed that we didn’t wake sooner. There were enough and plenty of reasons to have woken up before this ghastly incident.
This month itself, going only by cases that made the national news, there were three incidents on just one day, December 5.

A CPI(M) worker’s murder put Nabagram on the boil, days before the Jangipur Lok Sabha bypoll in Murshidabad. Abdul Hamid Sheikh was shot dead by unidentified miscreants on Saturday evening.

Aviation regulator DGCA will take up the issue — of the recent alleged suicide by the wife of a Kingfisher technician and the hardship faced by employees and their families on account of lack of payme

Andhra Pradesh governor E.S.L.

The Congress appears to be in a dilemma on whether to protect its pro-poor image or go ahead with the reforms by curtailing subsidy on petroleum prices.

NEW DELHI, AUG. 11
Unknown assailants shot at petrol pump staff carrying cash and allegedly also robbed `57 lakhs from the victims in Vivek Vihar area of east Delhi at about 10.30 am on Saturday. The victims, Jagmohan Singh, alias Goldi, 31, Jitender, 22, Vinod, 32, and Punit, work at a petrol pump on G.T. Road.