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New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday quashed an FIR against badminton player Lakshya Sen, his family members and coach in the birth certificate forgery case. A bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Aravind Kumar said the continuation of criminal proceedings against Sen was an abuse...

New Delhi: The Lok Sabha witnessed tense moments Monday during a debate on Operation Sindoor, as External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar outlined India’s strong diplomatic and military response to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack. Repeated interruptions by Opposition MPs, including Congress members, during his...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Monday claimed that two Catholic nuns were jailed in Chhattisgarh for their faith and alleged a ‘systematic persecution’ of minorities was taking place wherever the BJP was in power. Noting that religious freedom is a constitutional right, he demanded...

New Delhi: Soon after S Jaishankar made a statement in the Lok Sabha regarding Operation Sindoor, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Monday claimed that the external affairs minister has not categorically stated that the US was not involved in the "ceasefire" between India and...

New Delhi: Observing there should be "en masse inclusion" instead of "en masse exclusion” in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voters' list in poll-bound Bihar, the Supreme Court Monday asked the Election Commission to continue accepting Aadhaar and voter ID documents. Underscoring the...

Bengaluru: Karnataka government Monday revoked the suspension of four police officers, including the then Bengaluru Police Commissioner B Dayananda, who were suspended in connection with the June 4 stampede outside the Chinnaswamy Stadium here, which left 11 people dead. However, the suspension of Vikash Kumar...

Dharmasthala: A team of police officials from the SIT, constituted by the Karnataka government to probe alleged mass burial sites in Dharmasthala, began its site inspections Monday, police said. Accompanied by land records officials, local police, and district authorities, the Special Investigation Team, along with...

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar, addressing the Lok Sabha during a high-stakes debate on Operation Sindoor, made it unequivocally clear that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and then U.S. President Donald Trump during the crucial window of military engagement. He also firmly denied...

New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh launched a scathing attack on the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for its handling of India-Pakistan relations post the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks and for what he described as a strategic misstep in the 2009 Sharm-el-Sheikh (Egypt) agreement....

Srinagar: In a major breakthrough, the Army's elite para commandos Monday shot dead the alleged mastermind of the Pahalgam terror attack along with two of his associates in an encounter in a forest area on Srinagar's outskirts in Kashmir, officials said here. The officials said...