India

The decomposed body of a teenage girl was found buried inside her house in Hapur on Monday, the police said.

Upset at not being assigned a single ministerial berth in the newly elected chief minister Siddaramaiah’s cabinet, Congress members of the Karnataka Legislative Council (Upper House) arrived in Delhi on Sunday to plead their case with party chief Sonia Gandhi.

Zaibunissa Kazi, a convict in the March 1993 serial blasts case, surrendered in the Mumbai TADA court on Monday afternoon, three days after a judge issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against her.

City police registered a case of theft after diamonds worth Rs. 3.91 crore that were to be exported to Belgium went missing from Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport.

The police have arrested five persons who had allegedly gang raped a woman in Odisha’s Jharsuguda district.

Sikkim police have arrested all the seven accused, including son of a senior IAS officer, on charges of killing Rakshit Singh Meena, a third year engineering student, after a fight outside a pub-cum-night club at Gangtok on Sunday.