Hoshiarpur: A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped by two Punjab home guard jawans at Cholang railway station here, police said.

Ranchi: Tabrez Ansari, who was brutally thrashed on suspicion of having stolen a bike, died due to brain haemorrhage, according to the post-mortem report.

New Delhi: The All India Imams Council (AIIC), a body of Ulemas, Imams and Islamic scholars held Protest March at Jantar Mantar on Wednesday and made several demands including discarding of Tripal Talaq Bill while also urging the centre to stop interfering in Muslim Personal Law.

 Union minister Giriraj Singh on Thursday expressed alarm over the "population explosion" in the country since Independence and favoured disenfranchisement of those who sired more than two children.

A three-year-old boy fell into a storm water drain at Ambedkar Chowk in Malad East Wednesday night and a search operation is currently underway, a civic official said Thursday.

A special CBI court Thursday sentenced former BJP MP Dinu Bogha Solanki and six others to life imprisonment for killing RTI activist Amit Jethwa in 2010 after he tried to expose illegal mining activities in the Gir forest region.

A BSF jawan lost his hand and sustained grievous injuries after Bangladeshi cattle smugglers attacked him with bombs in the early hours of Thursday along the India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal, the force said.

Supreme Court lawyer Indira Jaising alleged on Thursday that she and her husband were being "targeted" by the CBI due to their work in the field of human rights, after sleuths from the central agency carried out searches at her residence and office.