Sources told Mail Today that prohibited drugs are easily available at the roadside paan shops and tea shops near the gates of the Indian Institute of Technology—Kanpur (IIT-K).

The only way to bring neutral secular peace is to rebuild this unusual three-tombed structure of a masjid where it stood as it was before, writes Rajeev Dhavan.

A post-mortem report also found bruises on the girl's shoulders and waist, injuries on nose and throat and intestinal bleeding.

Satish Achraya on... BJP changing the nation's father

Satish Acharya on... Modi and Congress.

The 15th Russia-India-China (RIC) trilateral dialogue in New Delhi on December 11 provides an occasion to make a general evaluation of the dynamics at play in this trilateral relationship.

The female cat was said to have mauled to death seven people in the last three to four months in Chalisgaon taluka near Nashik. Its last claimed victims were a boy and a 70-year-old woman.

Satish Acharya on... Modi's poll drive.

On the last day of campaigning for the high-voltage Gujarat assembly elections, PM Narendra Modi raised the pitch by taking a seaplane in the state - leaving him under fire from some.

Inflation based on retail prices soared to 4.88 per cent in November with costlier fuels, fruits, vegetables and eggs stretching household budgets, data released on Tuesday showed.

Satish Acharya on... Rahul Ghandi's 'transformation'

The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Britain's Vodafone compan to initiate a second arbitration process under an India- UK investment agreement over a long-running tax dispute with the union government.

The deceased, identified only as Kajol, was found murdered on the rooftop of her house.Family members searched and made enquiries about Kajol in every house in the area

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been able to ward off a Congress onslaught and is all set to retain its bastion of Gujarat, according to the results of the India Today-Axis-My- India exit poll.

Kolkata is all set to make history by adding a floating market on its water front.Officials say the proposed market is the first of its kind in India and third in Asia. Located on the fringes on Biswa Bangla Sarani or the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass in South Kolkata near Patuli area, this will be open for public in January next year.

Satish Acharya on... passing the baton to the new Congress president

'Generational shift' has been the buzzword in the party headquarters over the past few months as the entire party rank and file looks at Rahul to pull it out of a long-standing inertia.

Satish Acharya on... Rahul Gandhi and mission Karnataka.

The capital is to get its first large colony carrying out 100 per cent of its garbage separation at the household-level in Nizamuddin East.

Sources said an orthopaedic operating theatre has been shut for six months awaiting refurbishment, causing problems for doctors preparing for and performing bone surgery.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi has kept up the tradition of including a signature line associated with the sci-fi franchise.

ISIS has claimed it has hacked the US Army and State Department and is sending assassins to employees’ homes in a gruesome new propaganda video.

Lil' Kim wasn't afraid to speak the truth after some people made fun of the star for having 'belly rolls' while wearing a skintight suit to the annual Hot For The Holidays concert in New Jersey on Sunday.

Former Australia captain Kim Hughes has blasted England's approach to dismissing Steve Smith in the third Ashes Test at the WACA, saying 'all the backroom staff should be sacked.'

Despite earlier fears about traders supposedly irate over GST, demonetisation and anti-incumbency after 22 years of rule upsetting the BJP applecart in the state, Modi led his party to a nailbiting win.

Rahul Gandhi and the Congress should take heart in the fight back against odds and prepare for 2019, writes V Narasimhan.

He's one of Hollywood's biggest movie stars.

Last week the Chinese jets carried out what was described as 'island encirclement patrols' around Taiwan and state media showed pictures of bombers armed with cruise missiles.

Austrian contortionist Stefanie Millinger showed off her incredible skills with the help of her assistant, a brown bear called Stephan. Stephanie was a finalist for 'Das Supertalent' in Germany.

Two armed terrorists are making their way through a murky underpass holding multiple weapons on the billboard-type banner which carries the slogan: 'Wait for us on your year parties.'

Satish Acharya on... BJP Gujarat losses.

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has pulled up food regulator FSSAI for recklessly issuing licences to food businesses without complete documents and questioned quality testing.

After being reduced to four states in the country, the Congress party under its new chief Rahul Gandhi is set to first focus on rebuilding state organisations before strategising.

Beijing has a medium and long-term programme which aims at transforming China into an 'innovation-oriented society' by 2020; the plan defines China's leading-edge technologies.

Specialist counter terrorism police officers arrested three men, aged 22, 36 and 41, at addresses in Sheffield and a 31-year-old man at an address in Chesterfield.

Manchester City are heading into Christmas all guns blazing as they rack up the goals at an astonishing rate. Sportsmail assesses the front four of each side of the top six.

Watford striker Troy Deeney will serve a four-match suspension after an appeal against his red card in last weekend's 4-1 defeat to Huddersfield Town proved unsuccessful.

The actress, 48, had a picture-perfect moment with her family as she enjoyed a dream come true day visiting the Taj Mahal in the city of Agra on Tuesday.

Two-year-old Edward Latter wrote a heartbreaking letter to Santa pleading for the safe return of his dog which was swiped by thieves after escaping from his home in Kent.

FIFA says it has been informed of glitches in the 2014 World Cup goal-line technology system during games in France.

Several exit polls have predicted that Mamata Banerjee will return to power in the state

Supporters gathered outside Mamata's house and chanted slogans like Thanda thanda cool, cool; ghore ghore Trinamool'

Banerjee's current triumph comes even as multi-crore scams like Saradha and Narada have dented the image of her party

Trinamool Congress (TMC) ahead in 200 of the state's 294 seats in West Bengal

Despite the Narada sting and Saradha scam, the TMC government sailed through due to its laser-like focus on primary areas

For the first time in 49 years such a massive mandate has been given to a single party, says Banerjee

The Congress-Left combine is ahead in 72 seats and BJP, in seven

TMC ahead of its rivals, leading in 212 seats, Congress-Left combine ahead in 68 and BJP in seven

BJP has finally achieved its objective of capturing power in Assam, a goal which it had been pursuing since the 1980s

West Bengal Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said that there were many reasons for the defeat and the party would review them