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On a video shot on a cellphone, the college student pleads, "Hello Appa, I have been kidnapped. They want 50 lakhs it seems. Please pay....please!"

A college student's body has been found this morning near a Bengaluru lake, just days after he sent a video to his parentsasking them to provide 50 lakhs as ransom to his kidnappers.

Over 500 meat and chicken shops in Gurgaon on Thursday were allegedly shut down by Shiv Sena workers for Navratri festival.

A Pune-bound GoAir Airbus A320 Neo plane with 180 passengers on board from New Delhi was diverted to the city airport on Thursday.

The body of a 23-year-old man from Darjeeling was found hanging from a tree near the Chambal river in Gulabpura area on Thursday, police said.

A man, accused in the murder case of a BJP leader in Ghaziabad, was arrested on Thursday in Delhi's Rohini area, police said.

The Delhi government on Thursday decided to develop around 400 ghats across the city this year for offering Chhath Puja.

A class 11th student today allegedly stabbed a classmate outside PES Higher Secondary School at Farmagudi, 35 km from Panaji, police said.

Indore police claimed to have busted a gang involved in illegal trade of antiques with the arrest of ten persons and seizure of three metal idols worth more than Rs 3 crore in the international market on Thursday.

A former international kabaddi player was arrested for allegedly killing a local BJP leader in Ghaziabad earlier this month, the police said on Thursday.

An 11-year-old brain dead girl became the source of new life to three patients in Maharashtra after her vital parts heart, liver and a kidney, were taken through 'green corridor' from here to rain-battered Mumbai and to Pune and Solapur.

A week after police and transport authorities were pulled up for non-enforcement of the law regulating cabs following rape of a woman inside a taxi, the AAP government today informed the Delhi High Court that a new scheme for managing such entities was being finalised.

A six-year-old boy died during recess at a school in suburban Powai today, police said. The cause of death was not yet known.

Aviation regulatory body DGCA has grounded two SpiceJet pilots after a plane carrying 183 passengers overshot a wet runway while landing at the Mumbai airport earlier this week.

Unidentified men shot dead a retired Army jawan suspectedly during a bid to loot passengers of a train between Kiul-Bhagalpur section in Bihar, Government Railway Police (GRP) said today.