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An Indian man has won a case related to an overpriced railway ticket after almost 22 years. Tungnath Chaturvedi, a lawyer, was charged 20 rupees extra for two tickets he had bought in 1999. The incident occurred at Mathura cantonment railway station in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. A consumer court last week […]
An Indian man who had come to attend the last rites of his brother who died of snakebite was killed after being bitten by a snake in his sleep, police said. Govind Mishara attended the last rites of his brother Arvind Mishra held in Bhawanipur village, Circle Officer Radha Raman Singh told reporters. The brother […]
A four-month-old baby boy died in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district after a troop of monkeys snatched him from his father and threw him off a three-storey house. The incident took place on Friday evening in Bareilly’s Dunka area, which comes under Shahi police station. According to the family, the father was walking on the roof […]
Indian police arrest five people for putting up posters criticizing Indian PM Narendra Modi. The posters were put up in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj. The hoardings highlights the rising prices of essential commodities and unemployment in the country. According to police, the five people have been arrested with the ‘intention’ to defame Prime Minister Modi. Among […]
A Lucknow woman was on Tuesday mauled to death by her pet pitbull dog. The 82-year-old retired teacher was later found in a pool of blood by her son. She died of excessive blood loss. The woman was alone in the house at the time of her death. The deceased’s son is a fitness trainer. […]
Indian police briefly arrested YouTuber Gaurav Taneja (Flying Beast) after his followers thronged a metro station to celebrate his birthday. The incident occurred in Uttar Pradesh’s Noida. Taneja allegedly through Instagram told his followers that he would celebrate his birthday at the Noida metro station among fans. Following this, thousands of people reached the Sector […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party is set to keep control of India’s most populous state with a big majority, according to the count on Thursday of a state assembly vote that could offer clues to the national mood before a 2024 general election. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) coalition was leading in about 250 of […]
Angry mobs in eastern India have set fire to train carriages in protests over access to railway jobs that have seen police violently disperse crowds with tear gas and baton charges. Bihar state has been on edge since the start of the week over claims by young job applicants that an entrance exam for the […]
Indian police say they have foiled a plot by a man who tried to fake his own death to avoid being returned to jail. Officers in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh say Sudesh Kumar, 36, murdered a man and tried to pass the body off as his own with the aid of his wife. […]
After stealing files from a government office in India’s Kanpur city, a goat has become something of a social media celebrity. An employee of the Chaubepur block office can be seen sprinting after the animal that fled with some documents in its mouth in footage that has gone viral on the internet. कानपुर में बकरी […]
Uber wants to make booking a ride in India as easy as sending a WhatsApp message. The San Francisco-based company has partnered with Meta (FB) to launch a ride booking ability via its WhatsApp service in India, the two tech firms said in a statement on Thursday. The integration allow people to book an Uber […]
At least 89 people, including 17 children, have tested positive for the Zika virus in a district in India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh. Kanpur’s chief medical officer, Dr Nepal Singh, told reporters there has been a surge in cases in the district. India reported its first confirmed cases of the virus in Gujarat […]