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New Delhi: Solicitor General Tushar Mehta Thursday told the Delhi High Court that climate activist Sonam Wangchuk and his associates have been released from detention. The senior law officer also said that the Delhi Police order prohibiting assembly and protests in various parts of Delhi...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday set aside caste-based discriminatory provisions of prison manuals of around 11 states while deprecating the practice of distribution of work and segregation of prisoners in separate wards on the basis of their castes. "State has a positive obligation to...

New Delhi: In a relief for Jaggi Vasudev's Isha Foundation, the Supreme Court Thursday directed the Tamil Nadu Police not to act further in pursuance of the Madras High Court order asking it to probe alleged illegal confinement of two women at its ashram. The...

Hyderabad: Rangareddy District Court Thursday granted interim bail to celebrity choreographer Jani Master who was arrested last month for alleged sexual assault on a junior female colleague. The choreographer had sought bail to attend the National Film Awards function. The court granted him bail from...

Imphal: A mob looted a large cache of arms and ammunition from a police station in Manipur’s Ukhrul district soon after a clash between two Naga villages in which three people were killed and 30 others injured, officials said Thursday. The clash and the looting...

Mumbai: The remarks of Indian National Congress politician Konda Surekha’s over the involvement of her political opponent KTR in the the divorce of Naga Chaitanya and Samantha Ruth Prabhu has now snowballed into a full-blown controversy. Her derogatory remarks have now united the Telugu film...

Kolkata: Former Rajya Sabha member and actress-turned-politician Roopa Ganguly was arrested Thursday after her night-long sit-in demonstration in front of a police station in South Kolkata demanding the release of local woman BJP leader Rubi Das. Das was among the BJP supporters arrested Wednesday evening,...

New Delhi: Salaries in India are projected to increase by 9.5 per cent in 2025, compared to an actual increase of 9.3 per cent this year, a report showed Thursday. The engineering manufacturing and retail industries project double-digit increases at 10 per cent, closely followed...

New Delhi: AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal will vacate the chief minister's residence and move to an MP's bungalow in the Lutyens' Delhi Friday, the party said in a statement. Kejriwal, who resigned as Delhi chief minister last month, will live with his family at the...

Hyderabad: Telangana Minister for Forests and Environment, Konda Surekha, has withdrawn her remarks about actor Samantha Ruth Prabhu's divorce from Naga Chaitanya. After Samantha reacted strongly to her comments, Surekha took to 'X' to state that her comments were not meant to hurt her sentiments...