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Pune: A court here Thursday rejected the bail applications of six persons including the teen driver's parents in connection with alleged blood-swapping in the Kalyani Nagar Porsche car crash case. Additional Sessions Judge UM Mudholkar refused bail to the 17-year-old's parents Vishal and Shivani Agarwal;...

New Delhi: The CBI Thursday sought a polygraph test on former RG Kar Medical College principal Sandip Ghosh and four other doctors in connection with the alleged rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee at the hospital, officials said. The CBI took Ghosh and four...

New Delhi: All India Muslim Personal Law Board president Khalid Saifullah Rahmani Thursday claimed that TDP's Chandrababu Naidu and JD(U)'s Nitish Kumar have assured the Muslim bodies that their parties would oppose the Waqf (Amendment) Bill. His remarks came at a joint press conference of...

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding stringent central legislation with exemplary punishment for perpetrators of rape, a senior official said here. Alapan Bandopadhyay, Chief Advisor to the West Bengal Chief Minister, read the letter at a...

New Delhi: The Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA) Thursday decided to end its 11-day strike, called to protest against the rape and murder of a medic in Kolkata, following ‘positive directions’ from the Supreme Court. The apex court earlier in the day asked...

Srinagar: Former J&K Chief Minister and president of National Conference Dr Farooq Abdullah said Thursday that a pre-poll alliance between the Congress and the NC has been finalised and paperwork was being finalised. "Alliance on all 90 Assembly seats between the two parties has been...

New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu Thursday conferred the first-ever Vigyan Ratna Puraskar -– India's top most science award -- on noted biochemist and former director of the Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science Govindrajan Padmanabhan. At an award ceremony in the Ganatantra Mandapam of Rashtrapati Bhawan,...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday termed “extremely disturbing” the Kolkata Police's delay in registering the unnatural death of the woman doctor who was raped and murdered at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. It also asked protesting doctors to resume work and assured...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday said it would soon constitute a multi-member committee to amicably resolve the grievances of farmers "for all times". A bench of Justice Surya Kant, Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan, which posted the matter for further hearing September...

Chennai: Tamil superstar Thalapathy Vijay unveiled the flag of his newly-founded political party, Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) at the party headquarters in Panaiyur, Chennai Thursday. Vijay gave a brief speech after unveiling the yellow and red flag featuring two tuskers and a Vaagai flower surrounded...