DANTEWADA: Thirty-seven Naxalites, 27 of them collectively carrying a reward of Rs 65 lakh, surrendered in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district on Sunday, police said.

The cadres, including 12 women, turned themselves in before senior police and CRPF officials here as part of the "Poona Margem" (from rehabilitation to social reintegration) initiative, Dantewada Superintend...

COLOMBO: At least 400 Indian nationals stranded at the Colombo airport following the extreme weather conditions in cyclone-hit Sri Lanka, were sent back home on Sunday.

Around 150 of them were sent back to Delhi aboard flight C130 while 250 of them were sent to Trivandrum on flight IL 76 from the Bandaranaike International Airport here, Sri Lankan offic...

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Lt Governor Manoj Sinha have denied issuing demolition orders on several properties in the Narwal area, raising serious concerns regarding the action carried out by Jammu Development Authority (JDA).

Among the structures demolished during the "anti-encroachment" drive on Thursday was a house of a local journa...

CHANDIGARH: A series of violent incidents marred wedding celebrations in Punjab and Haryana. In Ludhiana, Punjab, two wedding guests -- including a woman -- were killed and another injured after a clash between two local groups led to gunfire.

In neighbouring Haryana, a professional bodybuilder was allegedly beaten to death after he confronted a group of youths reporte...

BHOPAL: A major political storm has erupted after Jamiat Ulama-Hind president Maulana Mahmood Asad Madani, accused the Supreme Court of functioning “under government pressure” and added that “it didn’t deserve to be called as Supreme, if it failed to enforce the Constitution fully.”

Addressing the national governing body meeting of the Deobandi body, Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind...