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New Delhi: Supreme Court Monday agreed to hear a plea of Ashoka University's political science department head Ali Khan Mahmudabad challenging his arrest for social media posts related to Operation Sindoor. A bench comprising Chief Justice BR Gavai and Justice Augustine George Masih took note...

Lucknow: Days after the arrest of Haryana-based YouTuber and travel blogger Jyoti Malhotra on charges of espionage, the Uttar Pradesh Police's Special Task Force (STF) has arrested a businessman from Rampur for allegedly spying for Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). The accused, identified as Shahzad, was...

New Delhi: Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri will brief a parliamentary committee Monday on the India-Pakistan military conflict in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack. The briefing will be held around 4pm, sources said. The meeting comes against the backdrop of the Indian armed forces...

Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Police have foiled an alleged terror plot with the arrest of two suspects, who were allegedly planning to carry out bomb blasts. In a joint operation, police of the two Telugu states arrested Siraj-ur Rehman (29) of Vizianagaram in Andhra...

Chandigarh: Pakistani intelligence operatives were developing Haryana YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra, who was arrested on espionage charges, as an asset, a senior Haryana police officer claimed Sunday. She was allegedly in touch with a Pakistani officer posted at the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi during...

New Delhi: Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Razaullah Nizamani Khalid alias Abu Saifullah Khalid, who was the brain behind the 2006 attack on the RSS headquarters, was killed by three unidentified gunmen in Sindh province of Pakistan Sunday, officials here said. Khalid used to head the terror operations...

New Delhi: In a significant move, the Bahujan Samaj Party’s (BSP) national president Mayawati appointed her nephew Akash Anand as the party’s Chief National Coordinator Sunday. The decision was made during a high-level party meeting and signals a renewed focus on organisational restructuring. As part...

Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's former close aides Prashant Kishor and RCP Singh joined hands on Sunday and vowed to take on their ex-mentor in the assembly polls due in a few months. At a press conference here, Singh, who is also a former...

Mumbai: Stopping short of calling it a protocol violation, Chief Justice of India BR Gavai Sunday expressed his displeasure over the absence of senior Maharashtra government officials, including the Chief Secretary, from his first public event in the state after taking oath as the head...

Hyderabad: The building that caught fire near historic Charminar here Sunday, resulting in the death of 17 people, had only one staircase, which was filled with smoke, blocking the escape for the victims, a top official said. Since the fire started on the ground floor,...