India

While the process of fitting 10,500 bio-toilets in new coaches is in progress, the target for the 2015-16 fiscal is 17,000 bio-toilets.

Richard Verma talked about Strategic Plus Partnership between India and the US.

A section of media has reported that there was an aborted hijack attempt on the national carrier's London-Delhi flight.

An 18-year-old youth committed suicide by jumping in front of a Delhi Metro train on Thursday, police said.

The aircraft which was on a routine training sortie crashed on Tuesday at around 11 pm and two officers on board are missing.

Posters in support of the nun have been put up outside the convent where the rape took place.

Same-sex relations are a criminal offence in India after the Supreme Court had in 2013 overturned a Delhi High Court judgement that decriminalised gay sex in 2009.

"The accused cannot be convicted on the basis of scanty, unreliable and faulty investigation which has gaps and holes," the court said in its March 21 judgement.

The incident took place on Monday afternoon when a 23-year-old woman had gone into the trial room of the showroom located in southeast Delhi's Lajpat Nagar area to try out some outfits, police said.

The opposition leader said that while 2.32 lakh beneficiaries had been alloted land under the scheme, the remaining 20,000 continued to be deprived.

According to a senior government official, the project is in the initial stage and is being drafted by the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUISB).

A large number of Indians have travel plans for this year, with a majority of them indicating that they may increase their spending, says a survey.

Police identified those arrested in Jabalpur as Dharam Sena leader Yogesh Agrawal and his associates Nitin Rajak, Prateek Pyasi, Anurag Choukse, Abhishek Choukse and Sharad Rao.

A team of local AAP activists submitted a letter of complaint to the Khandeshwar police and demanded a time-bound probe into the attack.

The Pakistan Day parade - marked to commemorate the Muslim League's Resolution on March 23, 1940 demanding a separate nation for Muslims - was held amid tight security.

"The respondents are restrained from making or publishing any interim report or making any public statement pertaining to investigation being conducted with regard the unnatural death of DK Ravi, an IAS Officer, pending disposal of this writ petition," Ju...