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New Delhi: The government Thursday appointed senior IAS officer Saurabh Garg as Secretary, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. An order issued by the Ministry of Personnel said the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Garg, a 1991-batch Odisha cadre IAS...

Jabalpur: The Madhya Pradesh High Court has recently ruled that a marriage between a Muslim man and a Hindu woman is not valid under Muslim personal law, even if registered under the Special Marriage Act, 1954. This decision came while the court dismissed a plea...

Kanyakumari: Prime Minister Narendra Modi began his 45-hour-long meditation at the famed Vivekananda Rock Memorial here Thursday evening, following completion of his two-month-long high-pitch poll campaign across the country. After arriving from nearby Thiruvananthapuram by helicopter, Modi worshipped at the Bhagavathi Amman temple and reached...

Rampur: A court here Thursday sentenced Samajwadi Party leader Mohammad Azam Khan to 10 years of imprisonment in an eight-year-old case of forcibly vacating a house and beating the owner. The punishment was pronounced by the Special MP/MLA Court, which also imposed a fine of...

Pune: A Pune court Thursday extended till June 5 the police custody of two doctors and a peon of the Sassoon General Hospital who were arrested for allegedly changing the blood samples of the minor accused in the May 19 Pune Porsche crash that left...

New Delhi: A Delhi court Thursday adjourned the awarding of sentence to Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) activist Medha Patkar, who has been convicted in a defamation case filed by Delhi Lieutenant Governor (L-G) VK Saxena, to June 7. May 24, Metropolitan Magistrate Raghav Sharma of...

Bengaluru: Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) MP and prime accused in the sex video scandal, Prajwal Revanna, has boarded a flight from Munich in Germany and is headed to Bengaluru, a source with the Special Investigation Team (SIT) said Thursday. According to the source, the flight departed...

New Delhi: A Delhi court Thursday issued notice to the ED on Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's plea seeking regular bail in a money laundering case related to the alleged excise scam. Special Judge Kaveri Baweja, who initially directed the central probe agency to file its...

Chennai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived at Kanyakumari helipad just now. He reached the southernmost tip of the country in an air force helicopter. PM Modi will now reach the government guest house for a brief rest and after that, he will offer his prayers...

Mumbai: A Mumbai Special Court has awarded mafia don Rajendra S Nikhalje alias Chhota Rajan to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of the 2001 murder of a city-based hotelier Jaya Shetty, here Thursday. Special MCOCA Court Judge AM Patil found Chhota Rajan guilty under...