Married off at the tender age of 6, Pintudevi suffered for 12 years before finally moving court to dissolve the child marriage.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday took stock of the status of work under various state schemes and urged the administration to speed up the process of development that was halted for almost three months due to rural body elections.
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BSF personnel seized two gold bars and six gold biscuits worth around Rs 84 lakh in two separate raids in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district and arrested two Indian smugglers, a BSF official said on Thursday.
Mohammad Ashiq Baba, one of the arrested accused in the terror attack on Nagrota Army camp in Jammu and Kashmir in 2016, had visited Pakistan four times "legally" with a reference letter issued by senior Hurriyat leaders, the NIA said on Thursday.
The Haryana Police STF has arrested most wanted gangster Sampat Nehra of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang from Hyderabad, police said on Thursday.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday urged separatist leaders to hold talks for peace in Jammu and Kashmir, saying a dialogue needed "right-minded people" and not necessarily like-minded people to succeed.
A private company's human resource manager was shot and injured on Thursday, allegedly by a sacked employee and his family friend in Gurugram, police said.
A court here on Thursday sentenced extradited gangster Abu Salem to seven years rigorous imprisonment in a 2002 extortion case.
Google has successfully completed its public Wi-Fi programme to provide India's railway stations with free internet, with Dibrugarh in Assam becoming the 400th station to go live on Thursday.
The Odisha government on Thursday announced a string of benefits for working journalists including a death benefit of Rs 4 lakh and financial assistance of Rs 2 lakh in cases of permanent incapacitation.
