Written By Alok Pandey With Agencies

The custody of an investment banker charged with helping Central Bureau of Investigation Special Director Rakesh Asthana allegedly secure a multi-crore bribe has been extended by five days.The accused, known to be a flamboyant man, had walked into court wearing torn jeans and a blue denim shirt.

The personal assistant of Samajwadi Party lawmaker has been arrested in connection with the espionage racket in which a Pakistan High Commission staffer was detained and expelled from the country and three others were arrested earlier this week.

For over a week, more than 1,000 trucks have been stranded on the Assam-Tripura border. Many of them, like 37-year-old Vikram Das's truck, are carrying essential supplies like food, medicines and fuel in to the landlocked state. But it's not an agitation that holding these trucks up. It's just rain.

Hundreds of inter-state passengers and freight trucks were stranded on key national highway to Imphal due to a 24-hour strike called by tribal activists in Manipur to protest alleged police "excesses" on slogan-shouting supporters in Delhi.

A massive agitation in many areas in the country over a new constitution means prices of essential commodities have skyrocketed; potatoes are selling for over 200 Nepali rupees in some parts of the country that imports much of its everyday goods from India.

Three people have died and six lakh people have been affected by the deteriorating flood situation in Assam, as six columns of the Indian Army are carrying our rescue and relief operations with state government agencies in nearly 19 districts of the state.

A heavy contingent of police and security personnel has been posted at Jharkhand's Jamshedpur town after clashes erupted between two communities over an alleged molestation incident. Over 100 people were arrested and about 150 have been named in First Information Reports or FIRs.

Student activists of the BJP today stopped trains, blocked the highways, burned tyres and forced shops to shut in Bihar as they protested against police action during a demonstration last week.

Mizoram Governor Aziz Qureshi, who had a running feud with the Centre and even approached the Supreme Court against attempts to ease him out when he was Uttarakhand Governor, was sacked today. Mr Qureshi's term would have ended in May 2017.

A four-month-old girl bundled in plastic and flung out of a moving train by a woman near Ranchi in Jharkhand survived miraculously with only minor injuries, the police said on Tuesday. The woman, assumed to be the baby's mother, is yet to be found.

More than 800 years after Bihar's Nalanda University closed down, 15 students and 11 faculty members are the faces of the revival of the once world famous university.

The custody of an investment banker charged with helping Central Bureau of Investigation Special Director Rakesh Asthana allegedly secure a multi-crore bribe has been extended by five days.The accused, known to be a flamboyant man, had walked into court wearing torn jeans and a blue denim shirt.

The personal assistant of Samajwadi Party lawmaker has been arrested in connection with the espionage racket in which a Pakistan High Commission staffer was detained and expelled from the country and three others were arrested earlier this week.

For over a week, more than 1,000 trucks have been stranded on the Assam-Tripura border. Many of them, like 37-year-old Vikram Das's truck, are carrying essential supplies like food, medicines and fuel in to the landlocked state. But it's not an agitation that holding these trucks up. It's just rain.

Hundreds of inter-state passengers and freight trucks were stranded on key national highway to Imphal due to a 24-hour strike called by tribal activists in Manipur to protest alleged police "excesses" on slogan-shouting supporters in Delhi.

A massive agitation in many areas in the country over a new constitution means prices of essential commodities have skyrocketed; potatoes are selling for over 200 Nepali rupees in some parts of the country that imports much of its everyday goods from India.

Three people have died and six lakh people have been affected by the deteriorating flood situation in Assam, as six columns of the Indian Army are carrying our rescue and relief operations with state government agencies in nearly 19 districts of the state.

A heavy contingent of police and security personnel has been posted at Jharkhand's Jamshedpur town after clashes erupted between two communities over an alleged molestation incident. Over 100 people were arrested and about 150 have been named in First Information Reports or FIRs.

Student activists of the BJP today stopped trains, blocked the highways, burned tyres and forced shops to shut in Bihar as they protested against police action during a demonstration last week.

Mizoram Governor Aziz Qureshi, who had a running feud with the Centre and even approached the Supreme Court against attempts to ease him out when he was Uttarakhand Governor, was sacked today. Mr Qureshi's term would have ended in May 2017.

A four-month-old girl bundled in plastic and flung out of a moving train by a woman near Ranchi in Jharkhand survived miraculously with only minor injuries, the police said on Tuesday. The woman, assumed to be the baby's mother, is yet to be found.

More than 800 years after Bihar's Nalanda University closed down, 15 students and 11 faculty members are the faces of the revival of the once world famous university.