In a horrific incident in Ludhiana, acid was thrown on the face of a young woman just hours before her wedding today. The 22-year-old had gone to a salon in the Saraba Nagar locality for her bridal makeup. Shortly, a 25-year-old man entered the salon on the pretext of delivering some papers and fled after throwing acid on the young woman. The attack has been captured on CCTV. The victim, a resident of Barnala town, sustained 45 per cent burns and was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (burn) of a local hospital, where

Three members of a self-styled "Muslim patrol" in London who harassed passers-by for wearing short skirts, holding hands and drinking alcohol have been jailed, in a conviction welcomed by the local mosque on Saturday. The men were jailed for up to 16 months on Friday after admitting a variety of public order and assault charges during 'patrols' in December 2012 and January 2013. One of the incidents was filmed by the gang and posted on YouTube, causing widespread public outrage and raising

With most opinion and exit polls predicting a rout for it in four states, Congress has sought to shift the discourse from Assembly polls to Lok Sabha elections citing past trends to buttress the point that provincial polls do not have a bearing on general elections. BJP should be cautious in celebrations, even if opinion and exit (O&E) polls are (r) true. We won all these 4 states in 1998, 1999. LS results were an eye opener for us," AICC general secretary in-charge for Delhi Shakeel Ahmed said on Twitter. Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA had come

Tehelka founder and editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal's remand in police custody was extended by four days on Saturday. The extension was given by a local magistrate here after the police insisted on more time to question Tejpal as well as to corroborate the sequence of events leading to the alleged sexual assault. Tejpal has been accused of allegedly sexually assaulting a junior colleague in the elevator of a five star hotel in the Goan capital Nov 7 and 8 when Thinkfest, an event organised by the magazine, was being held.

After a minor flutter created by Cuba and three Latin American countries, the WTO today adopted the historic Bali package which addresses several concerns of developing countries including India with regard to food security and trade facilitation. The Bali package was approved by the WTO after the issues raised by Cuba and other nations namely Bolivia, Nicaragua and Venezuela - with regard to trade facilitation agreement - were resolved and included in the package. The ninth ministerial conference adopted the full Bali package...these are histo