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A fully-grown female rhino and her calf died after being shot by poachers at the Kaziranga National Park.

CBI on Monday failed to give a satisfactory explanation in the Supreme Court as to why it was not allowing arms dealer Suresh Nanda to go abroad when no case was filed against him for alleged, kickbacks in the Rs 1,150 crore Barak missile deal.

Being out of the house for days together was quite the norm for Yakub Rasul Patel, a cattle trader. But for the last six years, 28-year-old Yakub hasn't left his wife and children for even one night.

Over a year after the Alistair Pereira case, another city youth drove his car over seven people, resulting in the death of two and injuries to five others, on Monday night near the Kalanagar bus stop in the Bandra-Kurla Complex.

Spanish authorities on Monday conveyed to India that the identity of two Indians - who along with 12 Pakistanis were held in connection with a terror plot - are being verified.

While the Congress headquarters is abuzz about former External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh approaching the party leadership in a bid to return to the Congress, Singh maintains that he has no such intention of coming back to the party and denied having made any approach.

More than a month after he was declared the prime ministerial candidate of the BJP, L K Advani will meet his NDA partners on Tuesday.

Ahead of leaving for Delhi, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar promised on Monday to put pressure on the Centre to get NTPC to supply electricity to residents of Kahalgaon, noting that they had given their land for its power plant in the area.

Almost every migrant story in India begins with a money order. It travels from the city with a little, scribbled message, to the distant village in search of a waiting family. Perhaps nothing maps the migrant worker's story better than the money order.

Six years after a pregnant Bilkis Bano was gangraped, her baby daughter killed and 13 of her relatives allegedly murdered, a special CBI court in Mumbai today sentenced 11 persons to life imprisonment for one of the most gruesome incidents of violence in the 2002 Gujarat riots.

A court punished 11 Hindus with life in prison on Monday for gang-raping a pregnant Muslim woman and murdering her family during one of India's worst riots in which hundreds of people, mostly Muslims, were slaughtered.

For a leader dubbed the "Untouchables Queen" who runs one of India's poorest states, it was indeed a birthday bash fit for royalty.

It's a stark daily reality in Mumbai: 6.5 million rail commuters, 25 accidents, 10 deaths. Yet, the railways don't have ambulances outside any of their 103 stations in Mumbai. And the only non-governmental organisation that offered 18 ambulances withdrew after harassment by officials and policemen.

The gang leader sounds the call for her 'sisters'. In seconds, 20-odd women appear from their tiny huts, wearing their gulabi (pink) saris and armed with their lathis (sticks). 'The stick is our support, but it can also fall hard if there's injustice. The colour pink gives us an identity in the crowd,' says the feisty leader, Sampat Devi Pal.

At least four people were killed and dozens injured in overnight clashes between police and villagers protesting poor power supply in Bihar, one of India's poorest and most lawless states, police said on Saturday.

Indian tourism officials are meeting this week to discuss the safety of tourists after at least seven foreign women and girls said they had been raped or molested over the past 20 days, a ministry spokesman said.

Mumbai, Jan 21 (ANI): A special court in Mumbai will today pronounce the quantum of sentence to 13 persons, who were convicted in connection with the 2002 Bilkis Bano gang-rape case related to the post-Godhra communal violence.

The two GoAir hostesses who were allegedly molested by Ved Prakash, a passenger on the Mumbai-Jaipur-Delhi flight, lodged a complaint at the Sahar police station late on Friday, nearly 40 hours after the incident. On the day of the incident, police had registered a non-cognisable offence and let off Prakash, after making him pay up a fine of Rs 1,200.

Surajpur police arrested two mobile phone-snatchers and recovered the 11 mobile phones from their possession in Noida. Their strike areas were the malls in Noida.

THE TWO criminals gunned down in a police operation in Kalyan on Friday were on Saturday identified by the police as wanted contract killers from Uttar Pradesh.