India

The incident, which occurred on the eve of October 21 assembly elections on Sunday, paints a grim picture of the state of the health infrastructure in rural Maharashtra.

India registered a 6.16% rise in crimes against women in 2017 when compared to 2016, reveals NCRB data for 2017.

A retired government employee administered the oath to the newly wed couple — a 31-year-old employee of a pharmaceutical firm and 23-year-old auxiliary nurse midwife in Ganjam district.

In a statement, the external affairs ministry said it is ready to sign the agreement on October 23 to operationalise the corridor before November 12.

Pakistan dropped former skipper Sarfaraz Ahmed from the country's Twenty20 and Test squads for their upcoming Australian tour Monday, while experienced players Shoaib Malik and Mohammad Hafeez were also given the axe in the shorter format.

BJP Bhopal MP Pragya Singh Thakur, who in the past had eulogised Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse, was conspicuously absent from the Sankalp Yatra organised by the BJP to mark Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary.

The mishap took place in Kamshet area around 4 am when the private bus, carrying around 35 passengers, was on way to Kolhapur from Mumbai, he said.

The AAP-led government had announced free electricity up to 200 units for domestic consumers and later extended the scheme to tenants residing in the city.

She blamed the police for forcing the family to venture out of their house to meet the chief minister, despite customs forbidding a family to get out of the house during the mourning period.

Allen is believed to have forced his mother to commit suicide just five days ago. He killed her when she refused, the police claimed.

Jayanti Ravi, principal secretary of health and family welfare, said there has been a 48.3 percent increase in communicable diseases this year.

The BJP MLA from Calangute assembly constituency said 76 stray cattle from Calangute village, relocated to a gaushala, were refusing to eat vegetarian food and that specialist veterinarians had been roped in to wean them of their meat fetish.

Family members of the deceased Ram Arora, however, claimed that his death was not related to the bank scam or resultant restrictions on withdrawal of funds.

The girl's leg accidentally slid into the gap, but before she could pull it out, someone pressed the button on the third floor and the elevator began to ascend.

Before dying the man told his wife that the woman was blackmailing him and demanding a huge amount of money from him for having an affair with her.

Sitharaman said that the country have taken a number of sector specific measures to support growth. The RBI has also reduced policy rates five times this year by a cumulative 135 basis points recognising the policy space it had.