Anger is brewing among farmers in this district on multiple scores including the issue of non-remunerative prices for potato and the longstanding dispute with farmers in bordering Haryana over some farmlands.
Puducherry BJP on Sunday urged the territorial government to ensure that financial assistance was extended to government school students alone to enable them to pursue higher education.
Fake suicide vests worn by the assailants in the London Bridge attack were made with disposable water bottles attached to leather belts, police revealed Sunday.
Iranian authorities have also arrested seven people it suspects of helping militants involved in attacks, a judiciary official said on Saturday.
Swaraj India chief Yogendra Yadav, social activists Medha Patkar, Swami Agnivesh and JNUSU president Mohit Kumar Pandey were detained by the police on Sunday when they were trying to enter restive Mandsaur district in Madhya Pradesh to meet the deceased farmers` kin.
Search crews in Myanmar have now recovered the bodies of nearly half of those who died in last week`s military plane crash, the army said on Sunday.
President Rodrigo Duterte said on Sunday he did not seek support from Washington to end the siege of a southern Philippines town by Islamist militants, a day after the United States said it was providing assistance at the request of the government.
Eleven people were killed and 32 injured in two road accidents in Maharashtra's Beed district on Sunday, police said.
India captain Virat Kohli won the toss and invited South Africa to bat first at The Oval. After a decent start, the top-ranked ODI side in the world collapsed to 192 all out inside 44.3 overs.
US-backed Syrian fighters captured their first western district of the Islamic State group`s bastion Raqa on Sunday, days after seizing an eastern neighbourhood from the jihadists.
"A handful of senior people have pledged their loyalty to Boris at Cabinet level," a Johnson ally told 'The Sunday Times'.
Iran`s national carrier Iran Air confirmed on Sunday that the country has sent five planes of food to Qatar after Gulf countries cut off air and other transport links to the emirate, amid a diplomatic row engulfing the region, local media reports said.
The Centre's decision not to resolve the "political issue" in Kashmir has worsened the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, former chief minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday said, stressing that military solutions cannot be used to fix a "political" problem.
The minister claimed that the Adityanath government was taking strict action on the corruption front.
A UK-bound flight from Slovenia with 151 people on board was diverted to Germany after three passengers were found to be engaged in a "suspicious conversation" with "terrorist content".
Scientists have discovered the most complete specimen of a tiny dinosaur-era bird, trapped in 98 million-year-old amber, that has exceptionally well preserved feathers, talons and other features.
Seif al-Islam, the second son and heir apparent of the late deposed Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi, is said to have been freed in Libya after more than five years in captivity.
Patnaik launched a web portal seeking people`s feedback by June 30 for improving service delivery.
The decision comes a day after the Devendra Fadnavis-led government set up a six-member team of ministers to look into the farmers' demands.
How would you feel when a large, venomous snake tries to crawl into your car through the windows!
Indian and Pakistani troops traded heavy fire on Sunday along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, a defence official said.
Tax rates on certain kitchen items like pickles and mustard sauce, as well as movie tickets costing up to Rs 100 have been lowered as the Centre and states today reduced levies on 66 items.
Nagaland Chief Minister has said NSCN(K) chairman passed away before any solution to the protracted Naga political problem.
A 'grand alliance' at the centre was RJD leader Lalu Prasad's birthday wish on Sunday.
"I was raped around 3 a.m. yesterday in front of my nine-year-old daughter. I was physically assaulted along with my daughter," the victim said.
