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Shivpal Singh Yadav also said he has told Dimple Yadav to be his witness (gavah) if Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav does something wrong with him again. Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) president Shivpal Singh Yadav has said it was a phone call from “daughter-in-law” Dimple Yadav that prompted him to campaign for her for the upcoming Mainpuri bypoll. Shivpal Singh Yadav also said he has told Dimple Yadav to be his witness (“gavah”) if Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav does something wrong with him again. Amid a deteriorating relationship with nephew Akhilesh Yadav,…

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The police had written to the dating application in connection with the investigation, as Aaftab reportedly met several women through it. The woman that Aaftab Amin Poonawala, who brutally murdered his live-in girlfriend Shraddha Walkar, had invited while pieces of Shraddha’s body were still kept in his fridge, is a doctor by profession, police have said. He met the woman through the mobile dating application Bumble, the same platform where he had first met Shraddha. The Delhi Police have contacted the woman, who is a psychologist, they said. The police…

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The almost 10-minute-long video clip, from September 12 around 8 pm according to the time stamp, shows Mr Jain relaxing in his bed when he is visited by three people in casual clothing. Fresh trouble may be brewing for jailed Aam Aadmi Party minister Satyendar Jain as yet another CCTV video of his prison cell shows him hosting guests, and also features a visit from a now-suspended Tihar Jail superintendent. AAP Convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who has accused the BJP of using central agencies to go after its…

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The two were colleagues in Mumbai and started dating. After her family did not approve of their relationship, the couple eloped to Delhi and started living in a flat in Mehrauli. In a shocking case, a man allegedly strangled his live-in partner, chopped her body into 35 pieces, and dumped them in Delhi’s Mehrauli forest over 18 days, say police sources. He got away with the murder for five to six months. He would step out at 2 am every day to dump the body parts, sources say. The accused has…

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Corruption has increased in the country, Industrialists are looting the wealth of the villages, and the government is silent, Anna Hazare’s secretary said. Anna Hazare’s secretary Kalpana Inamdar on Thursday said that Team Anna will launch an agitation against BJP, if the party does not fulfil promises it made to the people post-2014.  She said that the BJP has failed to fulfil all its promises despite being voted into power by the people with a thumping majority. Inamdar at a press conference organised by the Rashtriya Kisan Manch here said…

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In a video of the incident that surfaced on social media, the accused were allegedly seen throwing a cow from their vehicle on the road. Three alleged cattle smugglers were arrested Thursday after being chased by ‘gau rakshak’ in Sector 56 area when their car overturned, police said.  The driver of the pickup truck and two others managed to flee, they said. “There were three cows in the pickup Jeep and one of them was injured. The injured cow has been sent to a shed for treatment,” said Inspector Sanjeev…

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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s administration has said it no longer wants the governor at the helm of universities in the state. Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan was removed as the chancellor of the Kerala Kalamandalam deemed university by the state government on Thursday, a day after a sharp escalation in a face-off between the two sides. The state government announced it was changing the rules of the university to replace Mr Khan with an eminent person from the field of art and culture. The governor is a representative of…

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The minister’s charges came on a day when smoke from farm fires contributed to up to 32 per cent of the tiny PM 2.5 lung-damaging pollutants in the city’s air – the highest in the past two years. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s efforts at cornering Prime Minister Narendra Modi over shocking levels of air pollution in the capital and rest of north India earned him a sharp rebuke from the Union Environment Minister on Wednesday. In a scathing attack on Mr Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Union Minister Bhupender…

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