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New Delhi: BSP's Afzal Ansari was disqualified as a member of the Lok Sabha Monday after he was convicted and sentenced to four-year imprisonment in a kidnapping-and-murder case by a court in Uttar Pradesh. Ansari, the Lok Sabha member from Ghazipur, was sentenced to four...

Bengaluru: The ruling BJP promised to implement the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in Karnataka, in its election manifesto for the May 10 Assembly polls, released Monday. "We will implement the UCC in Karnataka based on the recommendations given by a high-level committee which is to...

Thane: The death toll in the Bhiwandi building crash in Maharashtra's Thane district rose to eight with two more bodies recovered from the debris, officials said here Monday. The two bodies were retrieved nearly 48 hours after the tragedy struck The work of clearing the...

Ludhiana:  Eleven people were killed after a gas leak incident in the Giaspura area in this Punjab district Sunday, police said. Four more people, who were taken ill, are undergoing treatment at a hospital, they added. The source of the leakage and the type of...

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Saturday met the wrestlers protesting at the Jantar Mantar demanding the arrest of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, and urged people to come forward and support the athletes. Some of India's top wrestlers,...

New Delhi: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra expressed solidarity with protesting wrestlers after meeting them at Jantar Mantar here Saturday and accused the government of protecting WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who is facing allegations of sexual harassment levelled by women grapplers. The Congress...

New Delhi: The eastern parts of the country such as Bihar, Jharkhand and Odisha are expected to experience above-normal temperatures in May with the likelihood of heat-wave conditions on some days, the weather office said Friday. However, parts of northwest and west-central India are expected...

New Delhi: The Delhi Police apprised the Supreme Court that it has decided to register an FIR Friday over sexual harassment allegations levelled by seven women wrestlers against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the...

New Delhi: The Dimasa National Liberation Army (DNLA), an insurgent group operating mostly in Assam's Dima Hasao district, Thursday signed a peace agreement with the government in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. After the group signed...

Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court Thursday ordered an NIA investigation into the violence in Shibpur in Howrah district during Ram Navami celebrations. Hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, a division bench presided by Acting Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam...