Hari Nath

A local court on Saturday awarded life imprisonment to a rapist, who is a father of two children and further imposed a fine of Rs 9,000.

KANPUR: Additional chief metropolitan magistrate first, Hari Nath Pandey issued a showcause notice to inspector, Kotwali in nukkad natak actor Sanjiba's case on Thursday.

The East-West Metro authorities may start the Esplanade-Howrah Maidan section by the year end, but they are not in a position to link up the "problem" segment between Sealdah and Esplanade stations this year, said Hari Nath Jaiswal, MD, Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC), at a media conference on Monday.

Nine persons were sentenced to seven yearsa?? imprisonment for attempt to murder and criminal conspiracy on Wednesday.

After regular reports of mining mafia ruling the roost in Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and Bundelkhand region, the menace now seems to be raising its ugly head in and around the city.

A security guard deployed at the residence of Shakeel Saifi, national president of the minority wing of Republican Party of India, was shot at on Sunday morning. Police said the security guard sustained two bullet wounds on his leg and was undergoing treatment at a hospital.

A sessions court here on Tuesday granted bail to trader leader and former Rajya Sabha MP Banwari Lal Kanchhal.

President Pranab Mukherjee addressed a gat hering at St Paul's Cathedral on Sunday to mark the closing ceremony of the bicentenary celebrations of the Diocese.

Continuing their protest against police lathicharge in Hapur last week, lawyers in several districts conducted lathi puja on Tuesday. They also burned effigies of the Uttar Pradesh chief secretary and DGP.

The Election Commission on Monday transferred two district magistrates, a deputy inspector general of police and some other officers, officials said here.

A security guard at a Republican Party of India leader's Delhi farm house was injured after an unidentified man allegedly shot at him on Sunday, police said.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused an urgent hearing on a plea seeking its direction to declare as "unconstitutional" the sit-in of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his cabinet colleagues inside the lieutenant governor's office in Delhi.

The ten-day festival of Ganesh Chaturthi came to an end on Sunday. Thousands of devotees participated in Ganpati Visarjan.

SIWAN: Rajendra Seva Kushtha Ashram at Mairwa in the Siwan district is languishing due to non-availability of funds for several years. The Ashram is spread over 25 acres of land and has the capacity to accommodate 200 patients.

Four years after Kochi started observing Earth Hour, the one hour ‘lights off’ campaign has become an event that residents look forward to every year thanks to online and broadcasting media as well as word of mouth campaign.

The Indian Mission in Sudan will transport the mortal remains of 20 Indian workers killed in a fire at a ceramic tiles manufacturing unit in the country by the next available flight, said the Union External Affairs Ministry.