NEW DELHI: Cases registered under dowry-related crimes saw a 14 per cent increase in 2023, with more than 15,000 cases recorded across the country and over 6,100 deaths reported through the year, according to the latest report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). The NCRB's 'Crime in India 2023' report said 15,489 cases were registered under the Dowry Prohibition Act in 2023 -- up from 13,479 in 2022 and 13,568 in 2021. Uttar Pradesh accounted for the highest number of cases under the Ac

NEW DELHI: Veteran BJP leader Vijay Kumar Malhotra passed way at 94 on Tuesday morning, the party said. He was undergoing treatment at AIIMS for the last few days. With deep sorrow, we have to inform that senior leader of Bharatiya Janata Party and the first president of Delhi BJP, Prof. Vijay Kumar Malhotra, passed away this morning, Delhi unit chief Virendra Sachdeva said in a statement. His life was an example of simplicity and dedication to public service. Since the days of Jan Sangh, he wor

MUMBAI: A four-year-old girl has allegedly been sexually assaulted at a well-known school in Mumbai, leading to the arrest of a female staffer, police said. The incident took place on Monday after the girl's grandmother dropped her off at the school, an official from Goregaon police station said on Wednesday. When the girl returned home, she complained of experiencing pain. After getting her medically examined, the girl's family informed the school administration and lodged a police complaint, h

NEW DELHI: The Centre has sought the transfer of pleas challenging the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025 , from three high courts to the Supreme Court to avoid conflicting verdicts. A bench comprising Chief Justice B R Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran has agreed to list for hearing next week the plea of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) for the transfer of three pending cases from the high courts of Karnataka, Delhi and Madhya Pradesh to the apex cour

NEW DELHI: India has alerted Pakistan about a flood alert in the Tawi river on humanitarian grounds, even as the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) continues to remain in abeyance in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack, sources said. The communication was made to the Ministry of External Affairs, which then reached out to Islamabad, sources in the Jal Shakti Ministry said. While India used to exchange data with Pakistan before the suspension of the treaty, this move was made purely on humanitaria

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday met Russian President Vladimir Putin and is understood to have discussed ways to further expand India-Russia ties. The meeting came hours after Jaishankar held wide-ranging talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that largely focused on expanding the trade ties between the two countries. We believe that relations between India and Russia have been among the steadiest of the major relationships in the world after the Second World War, J

HARIDWAR: The water level of the Ganga in Haridwar has crossed the warning level due to incessant rain in the city, officials said. The water level, already 10 cm above the warning level on Monday, was rising, prompting the adminstration to ask people near the floodplains to remain alert. If the water level increases further, villages on the banks of the Ganga could be flooded, houses and farms fields in low-lying areas could be waterlogged. Relief and rescue teams have been put on alert. Irriga

PUNE: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi's lawyer on Thursday withdrew from a Pune court the plea claiming apprehension of threat to the parliamentarian from followers of Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. The lawyer, Milind Pawar, said the court has accepted withdrawal of the plea. Earlier on Wednesday, hours after filing the plea, the lawyer said it was filed without Gandhi's consent and would be withdrawn. Pawar is representing Rahul Gandhi in a defamation case filed by Satyaki Savarkar, gran

MUMBAI: Aviation regulator DGCA has issued a show cause notice to IndiGo for alleged lapses in simulator training conducted for nearly 1,700 pilots, according to sources. The sources on Tuesday said the show cause notice was issued after scrutiny of records and replies received from the airline last month. IndiGo said it is in the process of reviewing the show-cause notice. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) found that Category C or critical airfield training for around 1,700 pilot

PUNE: A training aircraft crash-landed near Baramati airport in Pune district on Saturday, police said, adding that nobody was injured. The incident occurred when the aircraft, owned by Redbird Flight Training Centre, was landing after completing a training sortie. While flying the aircraft, the pilot noticed that one of the tyres was damaged. The pilot attempted an emergency landing at around 8 am. The front wheel of the aircraft came off after touchdown. The aircraft strayed from the taxiway a