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New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday sought the Gujarat government's response on former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Sanjiv Bhatt's plea against his conviction in a 1990 custodial death case in which he was sentenced to life imprisonment. "Issue notice returnable in four weeks," a...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday stayed a notification issued by the Ministry of Ayush, which omitted rule 170 of the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945 that prohibits misleading advertisements of Ayurvedic, Siddha, and Unani drugs. A bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Sandeep Mehta...

New Delhi: In a relief to BRS leader K Kavitha, the Supreme Court Tuesday granted her bail in corruption and money laundering cases linked to the alleged Delhi excise policy scam. A bench of Justices BR Gavai and KV Viswanathan noted that Kavitha had been...

Kolkata: Clashes broke out between police and protesters at different parts of Kolkata and its neighbouring Howrah Tuesday, as the agitators tried to make their way through barricades to march towards the West Bengal secretariat. The protesters were attempting to reach ‘Nabanna' to demand the...

Lucknow: A man has been booked on the charges of sexually assaulting children, filming the act and blackmailing them in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut district. The crime came to the fore after videos of the accused's indecent acts went viral on social media,...

Kolkata: More trouble seems to be brewing for the former and controversial Principal of RG Kar Medical College & Hospital, Sandip Ghosh, as the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is also entering the scene by filing an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) regarding financial irregularities there during...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday asked the ED and the CBI to show what ‘material’ they had to prove that BRS leader K Kavitha was involved in the alleged Delhi excise policy scam. A bench of Justices BR Gavai and KV Viswanathan was hearing...

Thane: A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped and beaten up by her father on multiple occasions in Badlapur town of Maharashtra's Thane district, police said Tuesday. The 54-year-old accused is on the run and the police have launched an operation to trace and nab him,...

New Delhi: Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park, the first home to translocated cheetahs in India, continues to struggle with a high leopard population and a low prey base, while the twin challenges have delayed preparations at the Gandhi Sagar Wildlife Sanctuary that will be the...

Kolkata: The Leader of Opposition (LoP) in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, Tuesday approached the Calcutta High Court on four student activists associated with the ‘Nabanna Abhijan’ march to the Bengal Secretariat reportedly going missing since Monday midnight. The single-judge Bench of Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj...