The Indian Army is battling critical shortage of ammunition, especially for its tanks and artillery, and 121 out of the total 152 types of munition do not meet the minimum levels needed to fight a full-scale war, the government auditor has found....
Kerala Congress legislator M. Vincent was on Saturday arrested, a day after being charged with sexual harassment and stalking of a 51-year-old woman who attempted suicide earlier this week. Before being arrested, Vincent, a first-time legislator, was grilled for over two hours by a team of police. He was later taken for further interro...
Srinagar, July 22 Eight Jammu and Kashmir policemen, including an Assistant Sub-Inspector, were beaten up by some army men in civvies when asked to stop at a check post in Ganderbal district. While the police on Saturday said an FIR was lodged against the Army personnel involved in the incident, the Army called it "a minor altercation" a...
The Delhi government has decided to double the honorarium of around 22,000 Anganwadi workers and helpers here, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Saturday. The honorarium of Anganwadi workers has been increased from Rs 5,000 to Rs 9,678 and of Anganwadi helpers from Rs 2,500 to Rs 4,839, Sisodia said. He said the dec...
In a major embarrassment to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, a state-government panel on Saturday questioned the massive delays in disbursing Rs 10,000 'immediate relief' as part of a farm loans waiver scheme announced to protesting farmers over a month ago. The Vasantrao Naik Sheti Swavalambi Mission (VNSSM) Chairman Ki...
In one of the Nithari serial rape and murder cases, a local CBI court on Saturday held businessman Maninder Singh Pandher and his domestic help Surender Koli guilty of rape, murder, abduction and criminal conspiracy in a case relating to the killing of a 20-year-old woman. The case, the eighth of the several lodged in the serial...
The Pentagon has said it will not give Pakistan the remainder of a key US military reimbursement fund allotted to the country for 2016 due to Islamabad's insufficient counterterrorism action. The Pentagon announced the move to withhold $50 million in "Coalition Support Funds" on Friday, saying it had determined Pakistan had...
Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar on Saturday lambasted West Bengal Chief ...
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is likely to meet Congress Vice President...
Sixteen police personnel were killed in a US-led coalition forces airstrike...