Written By Tejas Mehta

It's 100 days today since Jai, the 7-year-old tiger has gone missing from Maharashtra's Umred Karhandla Wildlife Sanctuary. Weighing 250 kg, 11-feet-long from nose to tail, and three-feet-tall, Jai is believed to be the biggest tiger in Asia.

He is missing for 99 days and still there is no trace of Jai, the stunning seven-year-old tiger, who moved out from Maharashtra's Umred Karhandla Wildlife Sanctuary in April.

In a dramatic rescue after a minister received a midnight SOS call, villagers and officials waded into rising water to pull out three people whose car had been swept away in Maharashtra, where heavy monsoon rain has caused floods in many areas.

Mumbai televangelist Dr Zakir Naik abandoned plans for a press conference on Skype from Saudi Arabia today, choosing instead to issue a written statement that stressed "I do not support terrorism or violence in any form whatsoever. I have never supported any terrorist organisations."

Days after 20 hostages were killed in a cafe in Dhaka, the Maharashtra government has begun an inquiry against controversial preacher Dr Zakir Naik, who has been accused of inspiring, through his speeches, the weekend's deadly attack in Bangladesh in which 20 hostages were hacked to death.

Drought, crop failure and farmer suicides. Those are the headlines emerging from Maharashtra's rain shadow region of Marathwada.

You may be an adult, but the Pahlaj Nihalani-led film certification board believes you don't have it in you to take a fictional Bollywood film with a dog named 'Jacky Chain'.

Top filmmakers today attended a press conference to say they stand with producer Anurag Kashyap's "Udta Punjab," and made a strong pitch for freedom of speech, attacking Censor Board chief Pahlaj Nihalani, who has ordered 89 cuts in the film.

Censor Board chief Pahlaj Nihalani, described as a "dictator" by filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, today said the 89 cuts imposed on the latter's film Udta Punjab "have nothing to do with the Punjab elections." Mr Kashyap's many allegations against him were baseless, he said.

Were the massive explosions and fire at the Central Ammunition Depot in Pulgaon, which killed 19 people on Tuesday, triggered by the intense heat in Maharashtra's Vidarbha? That was the indication an eye-witness gave to NDTV, speaking from his hospital bed.

"Mecca of Ammunition" says a board outside Pulgaon's Central Ammunition Depot, Asia's biggest. A fire there yesterday killed at least 19 people, including two Army officers and many fire-fighters who had rushed to douse the blaze that broke out a little after 1 am.

Welcome to Goa, is chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar's response to Arvind Kejriwal's announcement that his Aam Aadmi Party will contest next year's assembly elections in the tiny tourist state.

The traces of explosives found in the home of one of the accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case could have been "planted" by an officer of the Mumbai Police's Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) which first led the first probe, the National Investigation Agency or NIA.

Controversial Goa legislator Atanasio 'Babush' Monserrate has been booked for allegedly raping a minor girl, police sources in Goa have confirmed to NDTV.

The Centre is like a "chameleon", the Shiv Sena said today in a new attack after union minister VK Singh's statement in Parliament that there is no bar on Kashmiri separatists meeting with the Pakistani envoy.

It's 100 days today since Jai, the 7-year-old tiger has gone missing from Maharashtra's Umred Karhandla Wildlife Sanctuary. Weighing 250 kg, 11-feet-long from nose to tail, and three-feet-tall, Jai is believed to be the biggest tiger in Asia.

He is missing for 99 days and still there is no trace of Jai, the stunning seven-year-old tiger, who moved out from Maharashtra's Umred Karhandla Wildlife Sanctuary in April.

In a dramatic rescue after a minister received a midnight SOS call, villagers and officials waded into rising water to pull out three people whose car had been swept away in Maharashtra, where heavy monsoon rain has caused floods in many areas.

Mumbai televangelist Dr Zakir Naik abandoned plans for a press conference on Skype from Saudi Arabia today, choosing instead to issue a written statement that stressed "I do not support terrorism or violence in any form whatsoever. I have never supported any terrorist organisations."

Days after 20 hostages were killed in a cafe in Dhaka, the Maharashtra government has begun an inquiry against controversial preacher Dr Zakir Naik, who has been accused of inspiring, through his speeches, the weekend's deadly attack in Bangladesh in which 20 hostages were hacked to death.

Drought, crop failure and farmer suicides. Those are the headlines emerging from Maharashtra's rain shadow region of Marathwada.

You may be an adult, but the Pahlaj Nihalani-led film certification board believes you don't have it in you to take a fictional Bollywood film with a dog named 'Jacky Chain'.

Top filmmakers today attended a press conference to say they stand with producer Anurag Kashyap's "Udta Punjab," and made a strong pitch for freedom of speech, attacking Censor Board chief Pahlaj Nihalani, who has ordered 89 cuts in the film.

Censor Board chief Pahlaj Nihalani, described as a "dictator" by filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, today said the 89 cuts imposed on the latter's film Udta Punjab "have nothing to do with the Punjab elections." Mr Kashyap's many allegations against him were baseless, he said.

Were the massive explosions and fire at the Central Ammunition Depot in Pulgaon, which killed 19 people on Tuesday, triggered by the intense heat in Maharashtra's Vidarbha? That was the indication an eye-witness gave to NDTV, speaking from his hospital bed.

"Mecca of Ammunition" says a board outside Pulgaon's Central Ammunition Depot, Asia's biggest. A fire there yesterday killed at least 19 people, including two Army officers and many fire-fighters who had rushed to douse the blaze that broke out a little after 1 am.

Welcome to Goa, is chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar's response to Arvind Kejriwal's announcement that his Aam Aadmi Party will contest next year's assembly elections in the tiny tourist state.

The traces of explosives found in the home of one of the accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case could have been "planted" by an officer of the Mumbai Police's Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) which first led the first probe, the National Investigation Agency or NIA.

Controversial Goa legislator Atanasio 'Babush' Monserrate has been booked for allegedly raping a minor girl, police sources in Goa have confirmed to NDTV.

The Centre is like a "chameleon", the Shiv Sena said today in a new attack after union minister VK Singh's statement in Parliament that there is no bar on Kashmiri separatists meeting with the Pakistani envoy.