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New Delhi: Spanish President Pedro Sanchez will be on an official visit to India from October 27-29 during which he will hold delegation level talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to give a boost to bilateral ties, the Ministry of External Affairs announced Wednesday. "This...

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court Wednesday granted bail to mafia don Rajendra S. Nikalje, alias Chhota Rajan and suspended his life sentence in the case of the sensational murder of Mumbai hotelier Jaya Shetty in 2001. On May 30 this year, a Special MCOCA Court...

New Delhi: IT Ministry Wednesday slammed Elon Musk-run social media platform X after more than 100 bomb threats were received by airlines over the past few days and many of these hoaxes were circulated via social media platforms. In a virtual meeting with representatives of...

New Delhi: The NDRF has deployed a total of 56 teams in five states, including Odisha and West Bengal, in view of cyclone 'Dana', which is expected to make landfall along the Odisha coast between October 24 and 25. Mohsen Shahedi, deputy inspector general (operations)...

Mumbai: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Wednesday released the first list of its 38 candidates, including party president Ajit Pawar from Baramati, for the Maharashtra Assembly elections scheduled for November 20. The party has renominated its ministers and most of the sitting legislators except Manohar...

Wayanad: Huge crowd turned out for Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Wednesday as she headed to the Wayanad Collectorate to file her nomination for bypolls to the constituency which was vacated by her brother Rahul Gandhi. The locals claimed that this was the biggest-ever public...

New Delhi: Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, who is demitting office November 10, Wednesday deferred hearing by four weeks on pleas challenging the immunity granted to husbands in cases of marital rape. The CJI said he will not be able to conclude the hearing and render...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday pulled up the Centre for making the environment protection law ‘toothless’, and said the provision under the CAQM Act which deals with penalty for stubble burning was not being implemented. A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka, Ahsanuddin Amanulllah...

New Delhi: In an 8:1 majority ruling, the Supreme Court Wednesday overturned a seven-judge bench verdict and held that states have regulatory power over production, manufacture and supply of industrial alcohol. In 1997, the seven-judge bench ruled that the Centre had regulatory power over the...

Banda (UP): A 22-year-old deaf-mute woman was allegedly raped and her infant daughter molested inside their house by a man in neighbouring Chitrakoot district of Uttar Pradesh, police officials said Wednesday. The police have lodged an FIR against the 23-year-old accused, who is absconding since...