A notorious criminal who in the past had been branded as France's "Public Enemy No. 1" on Sunday made a cinematic escape from a prison near the country's capital in a helicopter, French authorities said.

A suicide bomber blew himself up in an Afghan city of Jalalabad, where President Ashraf Ghani was to hold a meeting with provincial officials, killing at least 19 people, many of them Sikhs, officials said on Sunday.

Croatia defeated Denmark 3-2 (1-1) via penalty shootout here on Sunday to enter the FIFA World Cup quarter-finals.

Even as Sangh Parivar tries its best to cover casteism by selling the dream of ‘Hindutva’ as a lofty ideal, the wound is getting deeper with time. It has been proved time and again that wealth, power or office can never really compensate for the caste based discrimination a lower caste person feels in our country.People are getting killed for having ridden a horse on the wedding day, or riding a motorcycle, or for having deskinned a dead cattle, or for entering a temple so on and so forth. If the dalits consolidate against such tyranny, the government does not even hesitate to brand them naxals.

Senior columnist D Umapathi said that the fake news being created and circulated through social media by the war rooms of political parties and unprofessional became a threat to the democracy in India where more than 30 crore people have been using Whatsapp.

The Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), in a first, has signed an MoU with the Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industries (DICCI) to help develop entrepreneurial skills among youth from the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.

The first 'Khadi Mall' of the country will be opened here soon, Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das announced on Sunday.

The government residential schools outsourcing workers protest condemning their removal from the schools entered the sixth day on Sunday and 16 women were admitted to the hospital after fainting. All the 16 women were getting treatment at the KC General Hospital in the city.