Toral Varia Deshpande

A peaceful protest in Srinagar by contractual government employees, demanding regularization of services, turned violent today after the police resorted to heavy tear gas shelling and used batons to stop the demonstrations.

Aam Aadmi Party legislator Jarnail Singh -- who is wanted in case of manhandling of a government servant -- has been granted protection from arrest till May 18 by the Delhi High Court. The court, however, ruled that he has to appear before the police tomorrow and assist them with the investigation.

A day after his statement in Parliament on underworld don Dawood Ibrahim triggered an uproar, Minister of State for Home Haribhai Chaudhury clarified, "We don't have his (Dawood Ibrahim) address but we know he is in Pakistan. There is no confusion."

When you next peer at the truck driving in front to read the legend on its back, you might find a funny rhyme or two, but it won't read "Horn Ok, Please." Not in Maharashtra, at least.

The BJP in Delhi today held a protest outside Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence, demanding dismissal of Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar, who is facing charges of forging a law degree.

Nearly 100 buses of the Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation are queued up at the bus stand, and luggage is being loaded on them, batch by batch. A first batch of five buses, carrying hundreds of Indians, left for Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday morning. Another batch would leave for Bihar in the afternoon.

Migrant labourers from Nepal living in Mussoorie, a hill station in the Dehradun district of Uttarakhand, are anxiously waiting to hear from their friends and family back home after a massive earthquake yesterday morning left thousands of people dead.

Three days after a five-year-old was raped in Mumbai's Antop Hill area, investigators have prepared a sketch of the suspect and announced a reward of Rs 25,000 for any information on the culprit.

After termors were felt across India after 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal this morning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the government is trying to reach out to those affected.

91 civic bodies go to poll today across West Bengal amidst heightened security after violence was reported during Kolkata Corporation elections that were held on April 18.

Kashmiri separatists have called for shutdown on Saturday in the valley against the detention of hardliner leader Masarat Alam under the Public Safety Act, a law that will allow the state to keep him in jail for two years without trial.

An alleged Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami operative was today sentenced to life imprisonment after a district court in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, convicted him for his role in the November 2007 serial blasts that had rocked the court premises of Varanasi, Lucknow and Faizabad.

Salman Khan's sister Alvira was present in the court for the hearing

Actor Salman Khan, who was summoned by a local court in Jodhpur to record his statement in the Arms Act case against him today, failed to appear for the hearing citing health reasons. The court has now asked him to be present on April 29.

Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari today said that two weeks are not enough to implement the National Green Tribunal's orders to ban old vehicles from Delhi and its surrounding areas.

A peaceful protest in Srinagar by contractual government employees, demanding regularization of services, turned violent today after the police resorted to heavy tear gas shelling and used batons to stop the demonstrations.

Aam Aadmi Party legislator Jarnail Singh -- who is wanted in case of manhandling of a government servant -- has been granted protection from arrest till May 18 by the Delhi High Court. The court, however, ruled that he has to appear before the police tomorrow and assist them with the investigation.

A day after his statement in Parliament on underworld don Dawood Ibrahim triggered an uproar, Minister of State for Home Haribhai Chaudhury clarified, "We don't have his (Dawood Ibrahim) address but we know he is in Pakistan. There is no confusion."

When you next peer at the truck driving in front to read the legend on its back, you might find a funny rhyme or two, but it won't read "Horn Ok, Please." Not in Maharashtra, at least.

The BJP in Delhi today held a protest outside Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence, demanding dismissal of Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar, who is facing charges of forging a law degree.

Nearly 100 buses of the Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation are queued up at the bus stand, and luggage is being loaded on them, batch by batch. A first batch of five buses, carrying hundreds of Indians, left for Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday morning. Another batch would leave for Bihar in the afternoon.

Migrant labourers from Nepal living in Mussoorie, a hill station in the Dehradun district of Uttarakhand, are anxiously waiting to hear from their friends and family back home after a massive earthquake yesterday morning left thousands of people dead.

Three days after a five-year-old was raped in Mumbai's Antop Hill area, investigators have prepared a sketch of the suspect and announced a reward of Rs 25,000 for any information on the culprit.

After termors were felt across India after 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal this morning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the government is trying to reach out to those affected.

91 civic bodies go to poll today across West Bengal amidst heightened security after violence was reported during Kolkata Corporation elections that were held on April 18.

Kashmiri separatists have called for shutdown on Saturday in the valley against the detention of hardliner leader Masarat Alam under the Public Safety Act, a law that will allow the state to keep him in jail for two years without trial.

An alleged Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami operative was today sentenced to life imprisonment after a district court in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, convicted him for his role in the November 2007 serial blasts that had rocked the court premises of Varanasi, Lucknow and Faizabad.

Salman Khan's sister Alvira was present in the court for the hearing

Actor Salman Khan, who was summoned by a local court in Jodhpur to record his statement in the Arms Act case against him today, failed to appear for the hearing citing health reasons. The court has now asked him to be present on April 29.

Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari today said that two weeks are not enough to implement the National Green Tribunal's orders to ban old vehicles from Delhi and its surrounding areas.