A nine-seater aircraft with seven persons on board — two doctors, a 19-year-old patient in critical condition, two relatives of the patient, and two pilots — crashed late on Wednesday night over Parvatiya Colony, a residential area in Faridabad, Haryana.

UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) on Wednesday finalised its recommendations on the proposed amendments to the Land Acquisition Act. If the government agrees to the suggestions and the Parliament passes them, the land owners would be entitled to get six times the registered value of their land as

Fugitive mafia don Dawood Ibrahim is not in Pakistan at all, rival don Chhota Rajan claimed on Wednesday. Dawood’s best ally-turned-arch-enemy Rajendra Nikhalje, alias Chhota Rajan, said in an exclusive interview to this newspaper that although he knew exactly where Dawood was, the Indian intelligence agencies are incapable of flushing Dawood out of his hideout.

To cash in on the attention that Bhatta Parsaul got after Rahul Gandhi’s visit, the Congress will now organise public hearings across the state for farmers on land acquisition issues from June onwards.

Police and security personnel on the spot after a low-intensity explosion near a car outside the Delhi high court in New Delhi on Wednesday.

Terror suspect Mohammed Niaz, from Melur in Madurai district, who was arrested earlier in May in Paris for his alleged links with the extremist group in Iran, ‘Jundallah’ (soldiers of God), is a relative of a former senior intelligence officer of Tamil Nadu cadre, Mr Mohammed Qasim. The officer retired in 1994 as deputy inspector-general of police (intelligence).

The Delhi Cabinet on Wednesday approved a voluminous 1,000 page report in response to the Shunglu Committee’s findings, while rejecting the Prime Minister-constituted committee’s findings point by point and also calling the panel’s report having been based on “presumptions” and “assumptions”.

After taking decision to recruit 20,000 more armed women personnel in paramilitary forces in the next three years, the Union home ministry is now concentrating on further enhancing the operational efficiency of the Central security forces.

After topping the Central Board of Secondary School Class 12 exams in the Delhi region, Dravyansh has topped the Delhi region in IIT-JEE too. His dream of becoming an electronic engineer has materialised.

The government on Wednesday ruled out recalling the 50 most-wanted list given to Pakistan after two fugitives figuring in it were traced in India.