Indian national Sushmita Banerjee, whose memoir about her dramatic escape from the Taliban was turned into a Bollywood film, was shot dead in Afghanistan by militants, police said Thursday.

Activist Narendra Dabholkar, who was in the forefront of a campaign to persuade Maharashtra government to pass an anti-superstition and black magic bill, was shot dead here this morning by unknown assailants.

Lucknow: A police sub-inspector was on Wednesday shot dead and several other police personnel injured when workers of a political party clashed with police in Ghazipur district.

"The in-charge of Ja

A local Samajwadi Party (SP) leader was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district, police said on Tuesday.

Shivbaran Yadav, 47, was shot dead late on Monday while he was

Five CPI(M) supporters were shot dead by Maoists at Nachupatina village in West Midnapore district, police said on Monday.

A large group of Maoists descended on Nachupatina village's Dompara area on

A militant has been killed in an encounter with police commandos attached to Imphal West district of Manipur, police said on Thursday.

Following a tip-off, the commandos stepped up frisking at a pla

Ahmedabad, Aug. 17: Nearly a month after RTI activist Amit Jethwa was shot dead, a police constable from Gujarat’s Junagadh district has been arrested in connection with the murder, officials said on

The Taliban publicly flogged and then executed a pregnant Afghan widow by emptying three shots into her head for alleged adultery, police said on Monday.

Bibi Sanubar, 35, was kept in captivity for t

Samajwadi Party leader Anil Yadav, who was also the manager of a college, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur district, police said on Friday.

Yadav, 34, was shot dea

A senior Nepalese media person and an active member of the Nepali Congress was shot dead by a group of unidentified assailants in the country's Dang district, just a week after another media entrepren