PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti's daughter Iltija Mufti, contesting her first assembly polls from the high-profile Srigufwara-Bijbehara in south Kashmir appeared to be conceding defeat as she said she accepts the verdict of the people. At the time of writing this report, she was trailing the National Conference's Bashir Ahmad Veeri by over 7,000 votes. The BJP's Sofi Yousif is placed third, trailing by over 24,000 votes. Taking to X, the 37-year-old PDP leader thanked party workers who worked so hard t

More than a decade after an on-duty DSP was lynched to death in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, a special CBI court in Lucknow has found 10 people guilty in the case. The incident had caused a political uproar at the time as the slain cops family had blamed then food and civil supplies minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh aka Raja Bhaiya for the murder. Singh lost his ministerial post subsequently. The slain cop, Zia ul Haq, was posted in Pratapgarh's Kunda, under which comes Bhadri, the native village of Sing

As the Forest Department continues the hunt for wolves that killed a three-year-old child in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich, the local people have revealed the happenings of the fateful night when the animal snatched the child sleeping with her mother. The incident happened at the Garethi Gurudutt Singh village in the Hardi area on Sunday night. The girl, identified as Anjali, was sleeping outside the house with her mother when she was taken by the animal. The child's mother told ANI that the incident

The 12-hour general strike called by the BJP in West Bengal to protest against the police action on protesters during the 'Nabanna Abhijan' rally, began on Wednesday morning. Over 200 people were arrested on Tuesday after the rally triggered chaos and disruptions. Videos from Kolkata showed vehicles keeping off the roads. Private buses did not ply while government buses were few and far between. The BJP workers were also seen disrupting rail traffic at Krishnanagar railway station. Similar shutd