Jitendra Chaudhary

A daily-wage labourer was assaulted while praying opposite a temple in Rudrapur, with a video of the incident going viral. The temple committee secretary is among those booked. Right-wing groups have presented their side, claiming repeated objections to the prayer at the spot, which the secretary asserts is private land. Police are investigating both claims and land ownership.

The state government has made it mandatory to display tribal languages on signboards, name plates and other notice boards in all government buildings, an official said on Sunday.

Greed to make few quick bucks seems to have claimed lives of 22 persons in the Surat hooch tragedy.

In a case of child-trafficking, the Muzaffarnagar police have arrested a doctor for allegedly trying to auction an infant of an unwed mother.

Roadside vendors in Jharkhand seem to be in the grip of social networking fever as well.In Jamshedpur, the largest urban locality in the state, a roadside vendor has named his stall Facebook Fast Food.

The fact that touts are proliferating in the transport department of GB Nagar came out in the open when a group of men led by the district convenor of the Bajrang Dal barged into the ARTO office to get a renewal of a fitness certificate of a vehicle owner and threatened employees when a worker’s work was delayed.

The DU Students’ Union polling will be conducted on September 11 and the last date for filing nomination papers is September 2.

The incident, which occurred on Sunday, involved the accused luring the woman to an unoccupied apartment where they allegedly provided her with water laced with sedatives.

Seven days after she was raped and assaulted, the 70-year-old woman from Chhindwara district died while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Nagpur on Sunday.

A 46 second video of state education minister Vasudev Devnani pushing a Congressman Jitendra Chaudhary outside a polling booth in Ganj police station area of Ajmer went viral on the social media on Monday. The video grab shows that Devnani arguing with Chaudhary to leave the place saying ‘App bhi bahar niklo yaha se (you should also leave). A moment later, amidst the heated argument, Devnani pushed him. Chaudhary was then gheroed by a group of people who appeared to be BJP supporters.

Bijnor: Ahead of Magh Mela in Allahabad, pollution control board in Bijnor has put restrictions on discharge of polluted water in the Ganga and its tributaries. A team has also been made to conduct checks on the sample of water here

Former MP and CPM politburo member Brinda Karat, while addressing the 10th conference of the All India Democratic Women's Association, in the Magadh University auditorium on Friday, expressed concern over criminalization of politics.

A BJP corporator from Borivli (W) was reportedly assaulted by two sons of a Gujarat-based politician on Sunday. Corporator Pravin Shah (52) intervened when the two brothers, Sagar and Jitendra Chaudhary, were roughing up a group of drummers for disturbing the peace of the locality.

Two policemen were killed and four others injured when a group of Maoists opened indiscriminate firing on a police van in Dantewada district of Chhatishgarh on Wednesday.