A 20-year-old woman was arrested along with her sister-in-law for allegedly thrashing her stalker after calling him to her home in Pul Prahladpur.

The police on Wednesday said it has arrested a man for allegedly attacking a girl with a chopper after she spurned his advances and scolded him for stalking her.

The Navy fears the worst for the 18 of its men trapped inside the submarine. However, the Navy divers have not given up their efforts since last night to rescue the sailors.

Reacting to the worst-ever incident in the Indian Navy history, Union defence minister A.K. Antony described the two huge explosions and a fire on Indian Naval Submarine (INS) Sindhu-rakshak as a “shocking tragedy”. Following the tragedy, Mr Anthony visited the Western Naval Dock with Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan.

Expressing concern over the fire on board the Russian-made submarine Sindhurakshak at the naval dockyard in Mumbai, Shiv Sena’s Bharat Kumar Raut and BJP member Chandan Mitra on Wednesday demanded a statement from defence minister A.K. Antony in the Rajya Sabha.

Contrary to popular belief that the number of caesarean deliveries (c-sec) are going up in India, government data reveals that normal way is still preferred as there are less number of women who had gone under the surgical knife for giving birth.

Navy Chief Admiral Joshi said that were was a lot of ordinance and other material on the ship that could have triggered the explosions. “Apart from the explosives, there was fuel, oxygen and hydrogen bottles on the ship.

The BMC officials have toiled hard for years to find a mate for Shiva, a solitary male one-horned rhinoceros at the Byculla zoo. Now, that they have finally found him a young rhino in her 20s at New Delhi, he seems unwilling to leave the zoo, which had been his home for the last 28 years.

The CRPF, the country’s largest paramilitary forces engaged in counter-insurgency and anti-Naxal operations, has bagged the maximum number of gallantry medals on the eve of Independence Day.

The nation’s highest peace-time gallantry award — Ashoka Chakra — has been awarded posthumously to K.L. Prasad Babu, a “reserve sub-inspector of Andhra Pradesh (police)” for leading an assault of the anti-Maoist force Greyhounds against the Maoists near the Andhra-Chhattisgarh border that was “instrumental in killing nine top-cadre Maoists”. The officer had attained martyrdom in the operation.