Farukh Khan

Nainital: In one more addition to the spate of defections that has marked the run-up to elections in Uttarakhand, Farukh Khan, a Samajwadi Party leader in Ramnagar, joined the Congress on Tuesday. Commenting on the development, Ranjit Rawat, the Congress candidate from the assembly constituency, said, “Like-minded people who support development are coming together.”

A Hyderabadi film of policemen and their tryst with law-breakers

It has been more than a year since Pushpa disappeared in January last year and the Chandigarh police have now, finally, constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate her mysterious disappearance.

Close on the heels of sensational case of Bhanwari Devi of Rajasthan, disappearance of Prabhakar's wife Pushpa in Chandigarh for the last one year has raised doubts about Chandigarh police's investigation.

Three people were arrested for allegedly making duplicate vehicle registration (RC) books for selling vehicles in Bhuj on Wednesday.The local crime branch (LCB) nabbed Farukh Khan Pathan, Abdul Kumbhar and Zakir Hussain Thaim, all residents of different areas of Bhuj.

It's only recently that director Nittin Rokade released the teaser poster of his upcoming film Local-via-Dadar, and he soon received a thumbs up from Bollywood star Varun Dhawan.

Two persons were killed and six other critically injured when roof of a hutment collapsed in Agar Malwa district in late hours of Sunday.

AHMEDABAD: The crime branch took into custody another person in the rath yatra arms case. The accused, Farukh Khan alias Farukh Bidi, was arrested by the local branch of Nadiad and is the 13 arrested for planning an attack on the rath yatra.

Two men were arrested in Kheri district for allegedly selling ‘karamati’ (magical) bulbs claiming that it would attract gold and other expensive metals and bring instant prosperity to the buyers.

A 55-year-old farmer was killed while five others including a woman injured after a speeding dumper hit three bikes one after another in Gunga and Eintkhedi on Monday. The dumper was finally stopped by police in Eintkhedi and the errant driver was arrested.

The new general secretaries include Kailash Vijayvargiya, a senior minister from Madhya Pradesh who has won his assembly seat six times in a row.

Farmers fighting for the immediate implementation of Kalasa-Banduri water project laid siege to the Hubballi railway station, squatted on the tracks for seven hours and threw the schedule of at least 20 trains haywire on a chaotic Tuesday.

A 21-year-old youth in Rajgarh district of Madhya Pradesh has been in jail for the last five months over a WhatsApp message forwarded by somebody else. His family members insist he is paying the price for ending up as the “default admin” as the actual administrator left the group after the “objectionable” forward.

“More than 1700 special students have been admitted in 290 regular schools across the city. This feat was possible only due to the hard work of the members of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan of Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC),” said Abhijeet Raut, coordinator, District Disability Rehabilitation Centre.

Congress national spokesperson Alka Lamba on Saturday accused BJP of harbouring terrorists and cited the case of tailor Kanhaiya Lal in Udaipur, Rajasthan, who was murdered by two men from the Muslim community. She said the two killers later turned out to be “BJP workers”.

In separate incidents, two minors were molested at Mumbra and Wagle Estate.

Telangana rowers reached three finals but managed just one silver in the men's coxless fours event in the 34th National Rowing Championship at the Hussain Sagar Lake on Thursday.