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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Thursday reserved its decision on anticipatory bail plea of sacked Maharashtra cadre probationary IAS officer Puja Khedkar, who allegedly submitted false OBC and PwBD (Persons with Benchmark Disabilities) certificates and fraudulently availed attempts beyond the permissible limits provided for...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday said the Punjab and Haryana governments have been slow in taking action against farmers burning stubble and a mechanism was required to be devised for a long-term solution to the problem. A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday refused to relax emergency measures under Stage 4 of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) to deal with air pollution in the national capital, ordering it to continue till December 2. A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and...

New Delhi: The number of cases pending in district and subordinate courts went up by more than nine lakh in the past 11 months, the government told the Rajya Sabha Thursday. In a written reply, Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said while more than...

Alappuzha: Four doctors here have been booked for allegedly failing to detect genetic disorders in a newborn while it was in the mother's womb, the police said Thursday. The accused include two female doctors attached to the Kadappuram Government Women and Child Hospital in Alappuzha,...

Mumbai: The process of government formation in Maharashtra is expected to get a boost after a crucial meeting between caretaker Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Devendra Fadnavis, Ajit Pawar and Union Minister Amit Shah in Delhi Thursday night, sources said. The meeting assumes significance amid reports...

New Delhi: A low-intensity blast occurred near PVR Prashant Vihar in Delhi's Rohini Thursday, leaving one person injured, police said. The explosion took place in front of a sweet shop near a park in the same area where a strong blast ripped through a wall...

Ranchi: JMM leader Hemant Soren was sworn in as the 14th chief minister of Jharkhand in a grand ceremony here Thursday in the presence of a host of INDIA bloc leaders, including Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi. The 49-year-old tribal leader was sworn...

Ranchi: A 25-year-old man, who works as a butcher, allegedly strangled to death his live-in partner and chopped her body into several pieces in a forested area in Jharkhand's Khunti district, police said. The accused, identified as Naresh Bhengra, has been arrested. The matter came...

Bhopal: In a shocking incident, a 16-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped by two men in a moving ambulance in Madhya Pradesh's Mauganj district. According to police, the incident occurred November 25 under the jurisdiction of Hanumana police station, around 30 km from district...