Puttur: The bail application of five accused who were arrested on charges of abducting and raping a Dalit girl was rejected by the fifth additional district and sessions court judge.

New Delhi: NCP MP Udayanraje Bhosale joined the Bharatiya Janata Party here on Saturday in the presence of top saffron party leaders, including its president Amit Shah and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, with Shah asserting that the BJP-led alliance will come back to power in the state with three-fourths majority.

New Delhi: The Congress on Friday announced its candidates for Assembly bypolls in five seats in Uttar Pradesh.

Firozabad: The SRK College in Firozabad denied entry to some girl students allegedly because they were wearing Burqa.

Dhaka: Forty-eight years after Bangladesh's independence, Pakistan's name engraved on the border pillars installed after the partition of the Indian subcontinent have been removed on the orders of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Bantwal: In another case of suspected Dengue fever, a young entrepreneur of Bantwal died on Friday in a private hospital in Mangaluru.

Bengaluru: An inquiry has been ordered into police thrashing a man accused of molestation after a video of the incident in May surfaced and went viral this week. Deputy commissioner of police N Shashikumar told PTI that the inquiry has been ordered by the city police commissioner and a report would be submitted after completion of the probe.

Noida (UP): An Air Force officer's wife here was booked for negligence on Friday after her pet German Shepherd bit a Hindu Yuva Vahini functionary, police said.