A 20-year-old woman was shot dead by an unidentified assailant on Monday night. The body was found on a service road in Delhi’s GTB Enclave, an area in the northeast of the city, the Delhi Police said on Tuesday.
As part of a crackdown on narcotic trade, a team of the Delhi Police busted a drug syndicate involved in supplying illegal drugs with the arrest of four drug peddlers, including a woman, from Rohini in North West Delhi, it said on Sunday.
A taxi driver and his accomplice were arrested for strangling a woman to death and dumping her body in a canal in Badusarai village of South West Delhi’s Dwarka, police said on Thursday.
At least five people, including a woman, lost their lives in the Jammu region due to landslides and shooting stones triggered by heavy rains and snowfall. Normal life has been disrupted due to bad weather that has hit air, rail, and road traffic.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Finance Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey as the new Chairman of SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India).
First-time MLA Rekha Gupta (50), who became Delhi's fourth woman chief minister, will lead the cabinet comprising prominent Jat and Sikh faces apart from members belonging to the Punjabi, Purvanchali and Scheduled Caste communities.
A 34-year-old man was arrested for stabbing his 27-year-old wife to death over a matrimonial dispute in the Johripur Pulia area of North East Delhi, the police said on Thursday.
A woman has died while thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes after torrential rainfall caused flooding in northern Queensland, authorities said, adding that waters will continue to rise and warned of a "dangerous and life-threatening" situation.
Following raids by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on the ‘Jaishree Foods’ company of Bhopal, which unearthed alleged disproportionate assets said to be around Rs 66 crore, the wife of the company’s owner consumed some poisonous substance in a bid to commit suicide and has been admitted to a private hospital here in a serious condition.
Recent judicial rulings in India have reignited debates about the fairness and consistency of capital punishment.
