Cities

The body of a 33-year-old married woman, who had gone missing, was spotted Tuesday in the Chambal river in Rajasthan's Kota city, police said.

AIIMS in Rishikesh Tuesday rusticated six of its students for allegedly vandalising a shop here, thrashing its owner and damaging vehicles parked outside it under the influence of alcohol, officials said.

A man on scooter was mowed down by a train while crossing a railway track and five others were injured when the two-wheeler hit them after being flung into the air, police said Tuesday.

A man in Vadodara walked at the head of a procession with his family and friends to get himself arrested after citing inability to pay alimony of Rs 95,500 to his former wife, Vadodara police said Tuesday.

The director of Heera Group engaged in mobilising investments through gold schemes offering a high rate of interest has been arrested for allegedly cheating depositors, the police said on Tuesday. Nowhera Shaik, heading 15 different group companies spread across different parts of the country, was arrested on Monday in New Delhi and brought to Hyderabad, the police said.

Battling poverty, a woman threw her five children into a well, drowning four of them, before she herself jumped into it in Gujarat's Bhavnagar district, police said Tuesday.

We are shocked, says the father of the man who was at a five-star hotel in Delhi where a former Uttar Pradesh politician's son pulled out his gun as he threatened a woman. The woman had allegedly objected to him walking into the women's washroom.

Self-styled godman Daati Maharaj, accused of raping a disciple has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Delhi High Court's order transferring the case to the CBI. The high court had on October 3 pulled up the Delhi Police for not arresting Daati Maharaj in the case and had transferred the matter to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

At least 25 people were injured after a bus fell into a rivulet from a bridge in Malkangiri district of Odisha, police said. The bus carrying about 40 passengers from Jeypore in Koraput district was on its way to Balimela in Malkangiri. Police have arrested the driver.

A ward boy and a medical student were arrested today for raping a nursing student while she was admitted in a Bagpat hospital in Uttar Pradesh, the police said.

The Delhi government and the centre have been told to hold consultations and frame a policy to regulate burning of Ravan effigies during Dussehra. A bench of Justices S Ravindra Bhat and AK Chawla of the Delhi High Court issued the direction on a fresh plea filed by an autorickshaw driver seeking directions to the authorities to prevent large-scale burning of effigies in the national capital.

A 65-year-old doctor was allegedly assaulted and robbed of cash and valuables by four unidentified men in northwest Delhi's Mukherjee Nagar area, police said Tuesday.

The Madras High Court Tuesday banned online sale of crackers till November 15 on a petition by a fireworks trader who cited loss of business as well as safety concerns.

The centre will give all the support Rajasthan needs in its fight against the spread of the Zika virus in the state, Health Minister JP Nadda said on Tuesday. The number of people infected with the Zika virus has reached 80 in Jaipur, the health ministry said in a statement.

Indrani Mukerjea, prime accused in the Sheena Bora murder case, argued her application for bail before a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Mumbai today. She appealed for bail on medical grounds, citing that she has developed a "neurological complication". "Will CBI take responsibility if I die?" she asked.