India

A 58-year-old IAS officer has been arrested for allegedly raping and molesting four minor girls, police said on Friday.

Cutting across faith and religious beliefs, the leaders protested the horrific incident and echoed in unison the message that society needs to fight against gender injustice.

The level of air pollution in Delhi exceeds the limits prescribed by the World Health Organisation (WHO), government said in Rajya Sabha on Thursday.

A truck carrying 400 gas cylinders caught fire at Kurnool-Anathapur highway in Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday.

After a gap of over six months, Border Security Force and Pakistan Rangers held sector commander-level flag meeting on Wednesday as the two sides called for bringing "much needed peace" on the border in the wake of recent exchanges of heavy fire.

The government received commitments of Rs.108,000 crore from telecom operators at the end of bidding on Wednesday, the 13th day of radio frequency spectrum e-auctions.

Noting that towns and cities are emerging as key drivers of economic growth, the Prime Minister emphasized that the economic growth model of a city should form an essential part of its Smart City vision.

Basit had gone to the Delhi residence of hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani and updated him about the talks between Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar and his Pakistani counterpart Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry in Islamabad.

The project is now expected to be completed by December 2018, in place of November 2002 as the initial commissioning target for the entire rail line.

Field Gun Factory which had launched the revolver in Kanpur on March 25, 2014, had generated a lot of buzz on its launch but out of the 375 revolvers made, 35 pieces remain unsold.

"I spoke to Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh today and he has given a green signal," Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse said in the Legislative Council.

The application to place a CD of the video and other documents was mentioned before a bench of justices BD Ahmed and Sanjeev Sachdeva which allowed it to be listed before the appropriate bench.

Mirach asserted that no US federal authorities have contacted it and its directors to date for any investigation.

Most number of precautionary landings (18) were made by the planes of Air India and Air India Express, followed by private carrier Jet Airways (8), Minister of State for Civil Aviation Mahesh Sharma said in written reply in Lok Sabha on Monday.

The Centre has set a target of construction of 10 crore toilets in the country by 2019 as a part of the government's ambitious 'Swachh Bharat Mission', Union Minister Ram Kripal Yadav said on Sunday.

Mirwaiz said he has been invited by Abdul Basit to apprise him about the recent meeting of the Foreign Secretaries that took place in Islamabad.