Concerned over rampant cutting of trees to implement various infrastructure projects, the Delhi government is now considering setting up of a call centre to receive complaints of such incidents.

India's richest biodiversity site in the western Himalayas - the Great Himalayan National Park (GHNP) in Himachal Pradesh is likely to become the country's seventh natural UNESCO World Heritage site, a wildlife official said.

Former BSP minister Naseemuddin Siddiqui, indicted in the memorial scam, on Tuesday questioned the legal status of the Uttar Pradesh Lokayukta as Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav asserted law would take its own course in the matter.

Four days after being acquitted by the Patna High Court in connection with the killing of CPI-M leader Ajit Sarkar, former RJD MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav was released from jail on Tuesday, police officials said.

There was no let up in intense heat wave sweeping Punjab and Haryana, with maximum temperatures in the region on Tuesday are expected to settle between 42 to 45 degree Celsius.

In a gruesome incident, a seven-year old girl was allegedly kidnapped, raped and murdered by her cousin at Malhagarh town in the neighbouring Mandsaur district, the police said on Tuesday.

Authorities on Tuesday foiled the plan of separatists to hold a rally at Eidgah in old city by placing several senior Hurriyat leaders under house arrest and deploying large number of security forces in Srinagar.

An FIR was on Monday registered against social networking site Facebook on a complaint that claimed a group on the site exhorts people to slaughter cows, police said.

Four persons were killed and five others sustained injuries when an explosion took  place at a house where fireworks were stored in Alwar district, the police said.

More appalling facts have emerged about the torture and sexual exploitation of the physically challenged girls residing at Jaipur’s residential school run by an NGO, Awaaz Foundation. Investigations have revealed that several girls of the school were sent to politicians and bureaucrats.