Pramod Das

A man who allegedly raped a four-year-old girl was arrested from the phase-II area of Noida following a gun battle with the police on Thursday.

The anti-narcotics cell team probing a Rs 35.5 lakh gutka seizure case arrested the key accused on Saturday at the Mumbai domestic airport as he tried to escape to Bhubaneswar.

Balasore industrial police on Monday arrested the two contractors who were allegedly involved in the roof collapse case on Sunday at Advanced Plastics Processing Technology Centre (APPTC), six kilometres from Balasore.

The police are yet to arrest Abdul Rahim, the owner of the private bus that rammed a biker at Thampanoor on Monday afternoon.

The city traffic police on Tuesday registered a case against Abdul Rahim, the owner of private bus MAR Transport which rammed a motorbike at Thampanoor.

A minor boy and a 22-year-old man were arrested for alleged gang rape of a schoolgirl in Banka district on Sunday evening. The 16-year-old boy was the classmate of the victim. The two dragged her to a secluded place when she had gone outside to attend nature’s call around 7pm on Sunday. The victim’s mother had gone in the village under Barahat police station area to attend a wedding ceremony. Both the accused were arrested in the wee hours of Monday.

The railway police on Friday said one of its personnel broke the legs of a woman's body so that it could be packed and sent to her village.

The water level of Subarnarekha river has started receding bringing relief to several villages lying in its catchment area in Balasore district, which were marooned for the last two days.

Altogether 224 inmates of the Araria district jail have tested positive for Covid-19, setting alarm bells ringing at the prison directorate in Patna. Officials said 706 prisoners are lodged in the jail.

Following in the footsteps of K Ravi Kumar, another weightlifter of the town, Minati Das, brought fame to the state. She won gold in the ongoing Commonwealth Youth Girls championship at Cape Town on Monday. Ravi, who had won the gold medal in the Commonwealth Games-2010, had also won the medal in the Commonwealth (youth) championships earlier.

Residents of ward number 8 are not expecting much from those who are campaigning for the GMC election, slated for June 19, as people of this locality are yet to get rid of the civic problems dogging them year after year.

As many as 20 new cases of diarrhoea were detected at Tala Sahi in Sikharpur, on the outskirts of the city, on Tuesday.

On Friday, a new video went viral on social media showing a person standing over a woman's body, trying to break her leg with his feet.

Why did the taunt by St Stephen’s College principal anger us all? Because there are few who haven’t spent their college years at those warm snack shacks, discussing projects, love and politics over tea and samosas.

A 45-year-old man managed to escape from the jaws of an 8-ft-long saltwater crocodile after he bravely fought it off while bathing in the Brahmani river at Nimapur village under Pattamundai block in Kendrapada district on Saturday.

Varanasi-based forum of prominent seers, the Kashi Dharma Parishad, has condemned the violence that broke out after Friday namaz across the country.

Doctors in Latehar have expressed their inability to conduct postmortem on the semi-decomposed body of “speech and hearing impaired” Lukas Minj, who was allegedly killed during an operation by security personnel.

Tension prevails in and around Mahmadpur village under Surajgarha police station area of Lakhisarai district after antisocial elements on Tuesday burned at least seven hutments of Mahadalit families.

The CPM-DYFI protest against Jamia Millia Islamia student Ayesha Renna (22) during a joint agitation against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Kondotty, Malappuram on Saturday has caused a rift among parties involved in the agitation.

Mapping the interest area of students, they are attached to the families related to their respective verticals under the programme.

14 armed men boarded the general coach of the Orissa Sampark Kranti Express from New Delhi Railway Station on Tuesday. Around 8am when the train crossed Ghaziabad, the robbers shut the two entrances to the coach and overpowered the only railway police force (RPF) officer in the coach.

KOLKATA: Krishna Sarkar is an upper division clerk at the Writers’ Buildings, the seat of power of the West Bengal government.

Muzaffarpur SSP Jayant Kant on Sunday admitted that the five deaths at village Dargah under Katra police station area of the district since February 17 were related to spurious liquor.