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Mohammad Amin Pandith, a smallholder and father-of-three from Indian-controlled Kashmir, was lured from his home at night by a man in army uniform, dragged along a potholed lane and shot in the back of the head.

The four detained have been identified as Jairam Mukhiya, 45, Ram Ayodhya Mukhiya, 41, Birendra Mukhiya, 40 and Wasar Mukhiya, 40. All of them were the permanent residents of Piparthana in Motihari district of Bihar, India.

Ranchi, April 23: A Bokaro court Wednesday issued an arrest warrant against Bihar BJP leader Giriraj Singh for making a provocative speech.

Gurgaon , Apr. 23: Police have arrested five girls and a pimp after conducting a raid on a spa and massage parlour in Gurgaon, Haryana.

In this May 22 2013 file photo, climbers descend Khumbu Icefall on their way back to Base Camo after summitting the 8,850-meter Mount Everest.

Chandigarh, April 22: The Limca Book of Records has included the name of Ranbir Singh, father of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, for his national record of being member of seven different legislatures.

Shah also said that SP president Mulayam Singh Yadav dreamt of becoming the prime minister.

For the first time, India's transgender people will be able to choose their gender as "other" on ballot forms following on from an Election Commission order of November 2009.

A new poll shows that Indians view rape as a big problem in their country and think the criminal justice system is inadequate to deal with it.

Stooping to feed grain to a black cow as a religious offering at his unfinished mansion, Indian politician and rags-to-riches millionaire B. Sreeramulu may need help from the gods if he is to win a hard-fought race for the parliamentary seat of Bellary.

Indian opposition leader Narendra Modi on Tuesday distanced himself from colleagues on the Hindu far right, saying they must focus on development issues in the election campaign, rather than rail against minority Muslims and liberals.

Suspected rebels in India-controlled Kashmir gunned down two village elders and one victim's son in attacks that police said were aimed at scaring off voters in the country's general election.

Militants killed three men in the restive Kashmir region on Monday, police said, in attacks that appeared intended to intimidate locals who are due to vote in a general election this week.

Kolkata, April 21: Two people died after some explosives kept inside a room went off Monday in West Bengal's Birbhum district, police said.

New Delhi, April 21: The CBI Monday arrested the relative of a finance ministry official for accepting a bribe of Rs.5 lakh from a man in Chennai on his behalf, said an official.

You can see the video here . New Delhi Television calls it "an indication of increased conflicts between man and animal."

Authorities say a driver trying to park before an Easter concert at a packed Florida church inadvertently drove into the building and through a concrete outer wall and several pews, injuring about 20 people.

By Alok Singh, New Delhi, April 20 : Terror groups in India, like the banned Indian Mujahideen, are relying more on indigenously made weapons and ammunition, from underground "arms factories", rather than smuggling them in from abroad.

In this map provided on Sunday, April 20, 2014, by the Joint Agency Coordination Centre details are presented in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean.

A 22-year-old man shot dead a woman he had befriended online and then shot himself after discovering she had misled him about her age and marital status, police in India said Sunday.