2 killed, 23 hurt as female ward of Kasturba hospital building collapses

BHOPAL: Two persons were killed and about 26 others were injured, four of them critically, when a portion of the two-storeyedKasturba hospital building, run by Bharat Heavy ElectricalsLim-ited (BHEL), collapsed on Friday evening. The portion of the building that collapsed housed the female ward on the upper floor.

However, unconfirmed reports put the toll at four. Twenty three people including a four-year-old child have

Man arrested for raping 6-yr-old girl in Aligarh

A man in his mid-thirties was arrested on Sunday morning for allegedly raping and murdering a six-year-old girl in Aligarh, which was rocked by violent protests against the incident.

The postmortem report of the victim, which was disclosed on Sunday, stated death due to asphyxia and on the basis of genital injuries, it appeared she was sexually assaulted.

The accused Somanna alias Suman had made a bid on his life and was arrested near a hospital in Aligarh where he was

Strong earthquake hits Iran, tremors felt in north India

Strong tremors rocked large parts of north India, including the national capital and its adjoining areas on Tuesday evening. Tremors were felt in Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat, Chandigarh and Himachal Pradesh. There were no immediate reports of any casualties. The quake measured 7.8 on the Richter scale at its epicentre on the Pakistan-Iran border.

"The epicentre of the quake was the Pakistan-Iran border and it measured 7.8 on the Richter scale," V Dattatreya, head, seismology,

Supreme Court verdict on Devinder Pal Bhullar's mercy plea today

The Supreme Court on Friday will pronounce the much-awaited verdict on the petition of Devinderpal Singh Bhullar, who had sought commutation of his death penalty to life sentence on the ground that there was inordinate delay by the President over his plea for clemency. 

Bhullar was sentenced to death in 2003 for carrying out a bomb blast outside Delhi youth Congress office in 1993. He had approached the Supreme Court in 2011, saying that his death sentence should be commuted to life imprisonment, because there was an inordinate delay by the President over his plea for clemency. 

His mercy petition was pending for 8 years. Bhullar had filed his original mercy plea to commute the sentence to life imprisonment in 2003. It was rejected in 2011, a week after he approached the Supreme Court. 

Devinderpal Singh Bhullar was sentenced to death in 2003 for carrying out a bomb blast outside Delhi youth Congress office in 1993.

The apex court's verdict will also lay precedence for others on death row like the Rajiv Gandhi assassination convicts.
Src: IBN Live(India)

Two held for Presidency vandalism

Even as two Trinamool Congress Chatra Parishad supporters were arrested on Thursday for vandalism at Presidency University, TMC ministers sought to downplay the party's involvement in Wednesday's trouble. 

Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Subrata Mukherjee said that while the government would launch a thorough investigation into the incident, the party will also investigate it internally.

"I am scared of the developments at Presidency University. Those who did the mischief, whichever party they showed allegiance