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New Delhi, February 27 – Officials from the Punjab Police and a senior official from the Punjab Home Department appeared before the Delhi Assembly’s Committee on Privileges in connection with the controversy surrounding Leader of the Opposition Atishi, an official said on Friday.Assembly...

Bhopal, February 27 – During the ongoing budget session of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly in Bhopal, political tensions escalated when Congress MLA from Sheopur, Babu Jandel, staged a dramatic and unconventional protest outside the Assembly premises.In front of the Gandhi statue, the...

Prayagraj, February 27 – The Allahabad High Court on Friday ordered the Uttar Pradesh Police to refrain from arresting Swami Avimukteshwaranand in connection with a complaint of child sexual abuse being investigated by the Jhunsi Police Station.The High Court also granted the seer interim...

Bhopal, February 27 Madhya Pradesh Congress MLA Babu Jandel literally brought the issue to a head on Friday by performing 'shirshasana', or a headstand, a yoga pose in which the entire body is balanced on the head, at the Vidhan Bhavan complex here, while protesting against an FIR filed against...

New Delhi, February 27 The Supreme Court strongly criticized the Rajasthan Police on Friday for filing an FIR against the former regional head of Zee Rajasthan on charges of blackmail and extortion, based on a complaint from Zee Media, and said it was shocked by the manner in which the case was...

New Delhi, February 27 The right to possess a passport and travel abroad is an integral aspect of personal liberty under Article 21 of the Constitution of India, the Delhi High Court has said.When any action by the authorities infringes upon such a right, the court asserted, it must be...

New Delhi, February 27 – A Delhi court on Friday granted bail to all 14 Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students who were arrested during a march from the university campus to the Union Ministry of Education (MoE).The accused, including three office-bearers of the JNU Students’ Union, were...

Sultanpur (UP), February 26 A police constable working with the emergency police response service, Dial 112, in Uttar Pradesh, has been arrested and sent to judicial custody after a woman filed a complaint accusing him of sexual exploitation, police said on Thursday.The case was registered at...

New Delhi, February 26 A Delhi Police team returned to the national capital on Thursday, along with three Youth Congress activists who had been arrested in Himachal Pradesh in connection with the shirtless protest at the AI Impact Summit. They asserted that all legal procedures were followed...

Mumbai, February 26 Two cases have been registered against four individuals for allegedly tampering with timing equipment during the physical tests for police recruitment in Mumbai, an official said on Thursday.These tests, being held at the Police Training Centre in Marol in Andheri, include...

Shimla, February 26 A day after a tense standoff between the Delhi and Himachal Pradesh police over the arrest of Congress' youth wing activists, the party's state unit chief claimed on Thursday that detaining individuals without informing anyone is a "direct violation of the state's rights"...

Varanasi/Prayagraj (UP), February 26 Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati, who has been accused of sexually abusing two persons, said on Thursday that he has filed a case against the accuser, Ashutosh Brahmachari, under the POCSO Act, claiming that the law allows legal action against those who...

Mumbai, February 26 Maharashtra Legislative Council Chairman Ram Shinde directed the state government on Thursday to present the facts related to the air crash in which Ajit Pawar died before the House.Raising the issue in the House, NCP (SP) MLC Shashikant Shinde moved an adjournment motion...

New Delhi, February 26 After a dramatic 24-hour standoff with the Shimla police, a Delhi Police team returned to the national capital on Thursday, along with three Youth Congress workers who were arrested in connection with the "shirtless protest" at the AI Impact Summit last week, an officer...

Chandigarh, February 26 – The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed the criminal charges against former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Associated Journals Limited in connection with the re-allotment of a plot in Panchkula.A bench of Justice Tribhuvan Dahiya overturned...

Pune, February 26 NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar and his cousin Yugendra Pawar approached the Baramati police on Thursday, seeking the registration of an FIR against VSR Ventures over the January 28 plane crash that killed their uncle and then Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar.This move...

Shimla, February 26 – Himachal Pradesh BJP President Rajeev Bindal criticised the Congress-led state government on Thursday, describing the developments related to the standoff between the Delhi and Himachal Pradesh police over the custody of three Youth Congress activists as "unprecedented and...

Alappuzha (Kerala), February 26 Leader of the Opposition in the Kerala assembly, V D Satheesan, on Thursday termed the claims of CPI(M) leaders and Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan that KSU activists attacked state Health Minister Veena George in Kannur a day earlier as "pure lies".Satheesan...

Yadgir (Karnataka), February 26 – A self-proclaimed "spiritual guide" based in Yadgir has been accused of misbehaving with a minor girl after a video of the incident went viral on social media. In response, the Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (KSCPCR) has registered a...

Pune, February 26 NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar and his cousin Yugendra Pawar approached the Baramati police on Thursday, seeking to register an FIR against VSR Ventures over the January 28 plane crash that claimed the life of their uncle and then Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar.This move comes a...