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A 19-year-old college student from Jharkhand’s Palamu district has won Rs 25 lakh in famous TV show, Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC), hosted by Amitabh Bachchan. The episode featuring Deep Jyoti was aired on Sony TV on Wednesday. She correctly answered the question for winning Rs 25 lakh on Wednesday but […]

Officials of Jewar toll plaza management have seized at least 101 identity cards from fake policemen, who were using the IDs to enjoy toll free rides on Yamuna Expressway. A complaint regarding the same has been filed at Jewar police station. Police said they have launched a probe and are […]

The Noida police on Thursday detained a delivery executive of an e-commerce company who was accused of allegedly trying to rape a woman in a high-rise society in Sector 74 on October 7. The woman, however, refused to register her statement and later wanted to withdraw the complaint. The suspect, […]

Three years ago, Sridevi made history when she became the first student of the University of Mumbai (MU) to identify herself as a transgender. Today, she proudly holds a BA degree in Sociology and Psychology from MU’s Institute of Distance and Open Learning (IDOL). The Hindustan Times had, in February […]

People in the national capital breathed the cleanest air in five years for a day that falls immediately after Dussehra, environment monitoring officials said on Wednesday, but warned that the situation is likely to deteriorate in less than a week. The celebration of Dussehra includes the burning of towering effigies […]

A five-month old boy died two days after an iron nail pierced his forehead while his father was allegedly beating his mother with a stick that had a protruding nail in east Delhi’s Kondli, police said on Wednesday. The police are looking for the child’s father, who is absconding since […]

Patiala district police arrested seven persons, including five women, on charges of kidnapping and trafficking a baby, on Wednesday. Police said two of the accused were charged under same sections in 2014. The accused sold a 6-week-old baby for Rs 4 lakh, wherein grandparents of the infant are among the […]

The Chandigarh municipal corporation on Wednesday released a public notice making waste segregation mandatory in the city from October 12. Hindustan Times in its Wednesday issue had highlighted the delay on the MC’s part in issuing the notice even as mandatory segregation of dry and wet waste was planned to […]

Jolly Joseph, who was arrested from Kerala’s Kozhikode on Saturday in connection with six deaths in her family between 2002 and 2016, was planning more murders, according to the special investigation team (SIT) probing the sensational cyanide killings in the nondescript village of Koodathayi. “We have some evidences that she planned […]

A special train on the Shimla-Kalka heritage route has been drawing a lot of attention. Scores of tourists have been taking this train to visit Shimla. A senior official of the Kalka railway station said, “Despite have the most expensive train on the track, the train is attaining 100% occupancy.” […]

Despite efforts by Punjab government to curb paddy stubble burning, farm-fire incidents have not abated in the state. Punjab Remote Sensing Centre (PRSC) reported about 27 cases of stubble burning on Monday, taking the total count to 258 this year, which equals the number of cases reported last year during […]

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal is yet to get political clearance to visit Denmark to attend the C40 climate change conference in Copenhagen starting on Wednesday. “The Delhi CM was to lead an eight-member delegation for the C40 Summit. He is scheduled to depart from New Delhi on Tuesday at […]

The wait was getting long and anxious for a team of construction workers engaged in digging up an artificial pond in South Delhi’s Greater Kailash neighbourhood. The 8,000 cubic feet capacity artificial water body was dug up by the Delhi government for immersion of idols in Durga Puja this year. […]