A youth stabbed his girlfriend’s elder brother to death for rebuking her in front of him.
The incident took place at Uluberia in Howrah on Saturday. Sheikh Shamim Mondal, the accused, took her teenaged girlfriend to a fair in the evening. They were in a relationship for over six months, according to the local residents.

In what became high voltage police drama, a police head constable from the west region police recently called the control room to seek permission to commit suicide after his senior officer allegedly harassed and humiliated him over unknown reasons.

The outlawed NDFB is trying to re-establish its base in Bhutan with the help of Bhupali Maoist, an insurgent group of Nepali migrants in Bhutan.

Days after the Bihar midday meal tragedy, which claimed lives of 23 children, Union human resource development minister M.M. Pallam Raju has requested MPs to ensure that a meeting of district-level vigilance and monitoring committee is “immediately” called to review the implementation of the scheme.

Having suffered the trauma of suspension from service himself, senior IPS officer Amitabh Thakur has now written a letter to the secretary, department of personnel and training, proposing certain changes in the suspension-related rules.

A 22-year-old woman has approached the Delhi high court seeking directions to the concerned authorities to allot her a PAN card after accepting her application form with the name of her mother instead of that of her father, who had abandoned her and her mother when she was only seven months old.

Over 7,000 sugarcane farmers in Puri, Khurda and Nayagarh districts are staring at a bleak future as some unscrupulous elements have seized Nayaagarh Sugar Complex Limited (NSCL), a private sugar mill located on the outskirts of Nayagarh town, nearly 100 km from here.

Telangana must not be looked at in a political perspective for the individual benefit of political parties and leaders. “This is a sensitive issue and should be handled like a father would handle a family matter and do justice among the children,” jailed YSR Congress president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy and his mother, YSR Congress Legislature Party leader Y.S. Vijayalakshmi, said in their letter.

Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan is optimistic that a good monsoon and governance will help the Congress in increasing its numbers in the coming Lok Sabha elections.

Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Saturday said people of the state will take a considered view on the issue of a seperate state for Vidarbha.