Talking about how the flight he was travelling in developed multiple technical snags, Congress President Rahul Gandhi said, "The plane nosedived 8,000 feet and I thought it's all over.

He became a police constable at the age of 19. Ten years later, Manoj Kumar Rawat is likely to become an officer of the venerable Indian Police Service (IPS). When Rawat decided to leave his job as a constable in Jaipur rural police district in 2013, many were critical of his decision of voluntary forsaking a comfortable government job.

Newly-recruited police constables had their chests marked with their caste -- SC (Scheduled Caste) or ST (Scheduled Tribe) -- during a medical examination here, triggering an outcry. State Home Minister Bhupendra Singh ordered a probe on Sunday.

The Odisha government on Sunday signed five MoUs with leading academic and technological organisations in various fields on the sidelines of Odisha Skills 2018 here, an official said.

The BJP government in Tripura has handed over all the 74 chit fund cases from the SIT to the CBI to probe the unlawful collection of money from the people by the illegal chit fund organisations during the tenure of the previous Left Front government, Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb announced here on Sunday.

At least eight persons were mowed down by a truck here on Sunday while three others were injured, two of them critically, police said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has summoned Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb over his controversial statements.