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A 25-year old groom was shot by two unidentified bike-borne gunmen in south Delhi's Madangir area during his wedding procession on late Monday night.

In a bizarre incident, a man in Uttar Pradesh chopped off his wifes tongue over an argument over dowry. Following the incident the woman was allegedly held captive for 10 days before she was freed by her family from the house in Barra area of Kanpur district.

Over 270 fresh cases of dengue have been reported over the last one week in the national capital, taking the total number of people diagnosed with the vector-borne disease this season to 2,146, according to a municipal report released Monday.

Heavy traffic was witnessed at many places in Delhi as 5,000 weddings were scheduled to take place in the city on Monday, officials said.

A youth accused of raping and murdering a three-year-old girl was arrested from Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh, a senior police official said on Monday.

During the past two decades, Delhi's air quality was the "most deadly" in 2016 as it reduced the life expectancy of a resident by more than 10 years, a new study said Monday, asserting that the national capital was the second among 50 most polluted areas of the country.

The location - Bengaluru's Freedom Park. The occasion - an angry protest by Karnataka farmers who had gathered from around the state, demanding Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy's presence.

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today cancelled the setting up of a beer-bottling plant in Dhenkanal district, two days after a clash between locals and the police over the felling of hundreds of trees for the project. Mr Patnaik's action came on the basis of a report by D V Swamy, the revenue divisional commissioner (RDC) of the northern division, today.

Nine persons, including a juvenile, were arrested for allegedly killing a 57-year-old doctor in Northwest Delhi's Jahangirpuri area, police said Monday.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has discovered that five minor girls, and not two as reported earlier, died in a shelter in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district.

A policeman was injured in an incident of firing at the official residence of the Director General of Police though it's not yet clear whether he accidentally shot himself or was fired at, officials said on Monday.

A Shiv Sena delegation Monday met Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis demanding that the Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi Corridor be named after its founding chief late Bal Thackeray.

Prices of flight tickets on the Tripura route have spiked after some carriers suspended their operations while others curtailed their frequency.

The principal of a government primary school here was killed today after the boundary wall on the premises collapse on her, police said.

In a rare feat, doctors at the KIMS Hospitals here saved a 39 year-old man by conducting an open kidney surgery to remove a large stone of the size of a potato.