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Roy said, I can never accept that encounter or kangaroo courts can ever be the standard operating procedure in dispensing criminal justice. People ought to be arrested, taken before the court, charge-sheeted, tried and the court will hand out punishment to them which is to be carried out. (Photo: ANI)

'Encounter, Kangaroo court can't be standard operating procedure':...

Earlier this Friday, the police said that all 4 accused in the case were killed in an encounter.

8 Dec 2019 11:17 AM IST

The sister of Unnao rape victim on Sunday demanded that Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath should visit them and give an immediate decision. (Photo: File)

'CM Yogi Adityanath should visit us,' demands UP rape victim's family

The 23-year-old was airlifted from Lucknow's SMC Government Hospital to Delhi for treatment at Safdarjung Hospital.

8 Dec 2019 11:02 AM IST

Pragya Thakur is an accused in the 2008 Malegaon bombings case. (Photo: ANI)

Pragya Thakur goes to police over Congress MLA's threat to burn' her

Thakur came to the Kamla Nehru police station in the Madhya Pradesh capital on Saturday night, a senior police officer...

8 Dec 2019 10:46 AM IST

Thirty two people were killed after a fire broke out in a house in Anaj Mandi on Rani Jhansi Road here on Sunday morning, a Delhi Fire Service official said. (Photo: ANI)

Delhi fire: Death toll reaches 43, factory had no fire clearance,...

Many people trapped inside were rescued and rushed to RML Hospital and Hindu Rao Hospital, they said.

8 Dec 2019 9:34 AM IST

Attacking the current government on the current state of the economy, Chidambaram said, Prime Minister (Modi) has been unusually silent on the economy. He has left it to his ministers to indulge in bluff and bluster. The net result, as the Economist put it, is that the government has turned out to be an incompetent manager of the economy. (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

'BJP denied freedom to 75 lakh Kashmiris,' claims P Chidambaram

Quoting a popular verse of nationalist poet Subramania Bharathi, he said the bard may have sung it 'bearing Modi in...

8 Dec 2019 9:25 AM IST

Newly-sworn in chief minister of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis, with his deputy Ajit Pawar at Raj Bhavan in Mumbai on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)

'Ajit approached us to form Maha govt,' says Fadnavis, admits move...

Fadnavis went on to add that the ACB affidavit 'will not stick (stand) in high court'.

8 Dec 2019 9:14 AM IST

SP chief Akhilesh Yadav along with party leaders stages a dharna in front of Vidhan Bhavan in Lucknow on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)

Unnao gangrape: Akhilesh on dharna, Priyanka visits kin

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra visited the family of the young victim in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao.

8 Dec 2019 6:45 AM IST

Senior advocate AD Ramananda

Silent victims: The advocate who defends the voiceless

The victim's father attracted the wrath of his community - as did Ramananda.

8 Dec 2019 4:05 AM IST

Of course, Sarah has been subjected to much abuse on social media from the hardcore N-followers, many of them accusing her of being a Vatican plant to deride Hinduism.

Foreign ex-devotees raise banner of revolt against godman

Another westerner has shaken off her devotion for Nithyananda and is a hard campaigner not just against him but the...

8 Dec 2019 3:59 AM IST

Self-styled godman Swami Nithyananda, booked in a criminal case related to his ashram here, has fled the country, with the Gujarat police working to gather concrete evidence against him after taking two of his disciples in remand, officials said on Thursday. (Photo: File)

Comedian by day, sex offender by night

The godman' has been accused of sexually harassing several disciples in his ashram, including three minor children (one...

8 Dec 2019 3:55 AM IST

Lenin Karuppannan

We stand vindicated: Nithyananda victims

Sources said the prosecution would seek cancellation of the bail and issuance of warrant of arrest.

8 Dec 2019 3:51 AM IST

Ceremonial traditional attire

Land of the Hornbill festival and Kachari monoliths

The Festival is getting hugely popular, as the sharply increasing footfalls over the years, show.

8 Dec 2019 3:47 AM IST