India

Social Welfare Minister Rajendra Pal Gautam said for the past 30-35 years, there had been a statue of Ambedkar on a piece of land in Deoli and an organisation by the name of Dr Ambedkar University used that land to run classes.

A tiger, two tigresses and two cubs have been captured for the first time by the night-vision cameras set up in the sanctuary, Dewas Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) PN Mishra said.

From being a food-deficit country, India had achieved the distinction of being a top exporter of food but to retain that edge it needed to revive its reservoirs, lakes and other traditional water bodies, said water resources minister Gajendra Singh Shekha...

Over 200 quintal waste had been collected from the wedding site between Sunday and Monday noon with the Municipality pressing in 7-8 trucks for the purpose, top government officials said.

Manji Solanki, who died after being beaten up by a group of people who first knocked over his motorcycle with a car, had demanded security but to no heed.

The BMC has stated that the Maharashtra Chief Minister's official bungalow is yet to pay water bills amounting to Rs 7,44,981 in water bills. 18 other Maharashtra ministers have also been named in the list of defaulters.

The officers part of counter-militancy operations in Kashmir believe that Pulwama district has become a sort headquarter of the current militancy.

The search for the eight-member team started on May 27 when they did not return to the base camp.

The BA(Hons) English course saw the maximum number of applications at 1,42,979, followed by BA(Hons) Political Science at 1,30,240 and BA Programme at 1,25,519, as per data available on DU admission website.

Suspected burglar Riaz Khan had attracted attention of a police informer as he was spending a lot of money on his booze in the bar in the city.

The accused, Mohit and Pankaj, allegedly fired at a police team when it approached them near Sunaria in Rohtak, the officials said.

Manisha Kumari, a junior resident at the Ophthalmology Department, left behind a two-page suicide note in which she mentioned that she was frustrated with her tuberculosis ailment.

'The central and state teams have finalised the site and design of 100-bed PICU at Muzaffarpur, which will be supported under a centrally sponsored scheme,' Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said.

Customs Spokesman Deputy Director Sunil Jayaratne said the suspects, aged between 36 and 53 had concealed the gold biscuits in their luggages, pockets of the trousers they were wearing and their rectum, reports the Daily Mirror newspaper.

Holding her request for her husband to donate his sperms for artificial insemination as a 'legitimate, eugenic choice of hers', the court directed the couple to an assisted reproductive technology (ART) expert.

Quoting preliminary investigation, the police said it appears to be a case of suicide but the motive behind his taking such an extreme step was not known immediately.