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Thane: A Thane court has acquitted a 25-year-old man accused of raping a minor girl in 2019 under the pretext of marriage, after she admitted that their relationship was consensual. The victim, who was 17 years old at the time of the incident, was mature...

Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court Thursday granted interim bail to social media influencer Sharmistha Panoli, who was arrested by Kolkata Police for allegedly uploading a video with communal comments. The court held that the complaint against her does not disclose any cognisable offence. Panoli, a...

Bengaluru: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Thursday took cognisance of the stampede incident near the Chinnaswamy Stadium in which 11 people were killed, and issued notices to the Deputy Commissioner of the Bengaluru Urban district and the city Police Commissioner. The Commission has also...

New Delhi: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra has married senior advocate and former BJD MP Pinaki Misra in Germany, according to reports. Mahua Moitra tweeted a picture featuring her cutting a cake with Mishra, with a caption "Thank you everyone for the love and...

Gangtok: Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang Thursday said that only the Lachen and Lachung sectors in the northern part of the mountain state are closed to visitors at the moment, and the rest of the tourist places are now open for tourists. "Sikkim continues...

Bengaluru: A celebration marking Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s maiden IPL title turned tragic Wednesday when a stampede outside M Chinnaswamy Stadium left at least 11 people dead, according to officials. Captain Rajat Patidar, Virat Kohli and other RCB players had arrived in the city with the...

Srinagar: Sleuths of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Thursday carried out raids at multiple locations in Kashmir Valley as officials said these raids are part of an ongoing investigation into a terror funding and conspiracy case. Assisted by police and the CRPF, NIA sleuths raided...

New Delhi: Several groundbreaking financial inclusion schemes by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government have revolutionised welfare delivery in India in the last 11 years, by plugging leakages and ensuring transparency, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said Thursday. Over the past decade, the NDA government has...

Bengaluru: Taking cognisance of the stampede incident near the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, which resulted in the deaths of at least 11 people, the Karnataka High Court Thursday registered a suo motu Public Interest Litigation (PIL) and sought a report from the Congress-led Karnataka government....

Gangtok: Fifty-nine tourists were brought back to Gangtok from the rain-ravaged north Sikkim Thursday morning as the rescue operations resumed after the weather cleared, officials said. They were among the 109 tourists stranded in north Sikkim's Lachung for nearly a week. Two MI-17V5 helicopters left...