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No maternity leave for fourth child: Allahabad HC denies UP govt employee's plea

India, Aug. 12 -- The Allahabad high court has rejected a government employee's plea for maternity leave, saying that she cannot be given leave for her fourth child under the rules. Justice Manju Ran... Read More


Telling apart graft and grit in decision-making

India, Aug. 12 -- In a country where a senior bureaucrat's estimate of notional loss helped take down a government, determining what constitutes loss and how investigators assign responsibility in suc... Read More


Ghaziabad: Factory worker stabs manager to death with scissors, held

India, Aug. 12 -- A 38-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday in Ghaziabad for allegedly stabbing his 45-year-old manager to death with a pair of scissors at the garment factory in Loni's Tronica City o... Read More


Assam woman found dead inside techie's locked apartment in Noida

Noida, Aug. 12 -- The body of an 18-year-old woman from Assam, who had come to Noida after leaving home about a fortnight ago, was found with multiple injuries inside a locked residence of an engineer... Read More


Yeida earmarks land for regional medical hub near Noida International Airport

GREATER NOIDA, Aug. 12 -- The Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (Yeida) has decided to propose a 500-acre "regional medical hub" in sectors 13 and 14 near the Noida International Airp... Read More


18-year-old woman found murdered in locked Sec-49 house

Noida, Aug. 12 -- The body of an 18-year-old woman from Assam, who had come to Noida after leaving home about a fortnight ago, was found with multiple injuries inside a locked residence of an engineer... Read More


Doctor dragged from SUV, assaulted by mob after cow hit in Badaun; 4 held

MEERUT, Aug. 12 -- A 36-year-old government doctor was allegedly pulled out of his SUV and beaten by a group of people in an apparent case of cow vigilantism after his vehicle hit a stray cow on a Bad... Read More


77-year-old duped of rRs.r4.98 lakh in fake SIR data fraud

India, Aug. 12 -- A 77-year-old citizen from Wadgaon Budruk was allegedly duped of Rs.4.98 lakh after a fraudster posing as an election commission official claimed that there was a mismatch in his SIR... Read More


Shop ceiling collapse kills 24-year-old in Ghaziabad, police file case against owner

India, Aug. 12 -- A 24-year-old man was killed after the ceiling of a shop collapsed in Loni, Ghaziabad, on Monday evening, officials said on Tuesday. No arrests have been made so far. Police identif... Read More


6 years after guard's murder at construction site, 3 get life term

Mohali, Aug. 12 -- Nearly six years after a security guard was fatally assaulted at an under-construction site in Sector 66, a Mohali court has sentenced three men to life imprisonment for his murder.... Read More