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The National Commission for Women has taken suo motu cognizance of the incident and has asked UP Director General of Police to apprise it of the report regarding the action taken since the date of filing of the rape complaint by the victim.

A fitness freak who is mostly seen riding a bicycle on roads, Jitu Patwari imparted fitness mantras to students at a university in the state capital. In order to exhibit his message, he expressed his desire to scale the 40-feet high rock-climbing wall in...

Once a person is declared a proclaimed offender, the probe agency can begin confiscation of his properties in India.

Akhilesh Yadav tweet was soon countered by another from the BJP government, which claimed that the period when Yadav himself was the chief minister was worse.

IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad revealed to the Parliament that the Centre had approached Facebook and Cambridge Analytica seeking clarifications following reports about data breaches.

During the clash between two groups of the Youth Congress shots are said to have been fired in the air. Each of the groups blamed the other for the clash and the firing incident.

The top court held that a routine practice of investigating agencies adducing materials in sealed covers and courts relying upon them will affect the right to fair trial of accused.

Kamlesh Tiwari's wife and now the Hindu Samaj Party president Kiran Tiwari , said that the release of Rizvi was 'unfortunate and shocking'.

The bill seeks to amend the Citizenship Act, 1955, to grant Indian nationality to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

If Gurgaon has poisonous air, Bangalore has gridlock — the number of vehicles in the city has gone from around 1.4 million in 2000 to more than 8 million this year.

The NGO, which has been supplying midday meals in 30 schools in the district, has been blacklisted and food samples have been sent to a laboratory for testing, officials said.

The student groups from Assam are believed to have conveyed to Home Minister Amit Shah their concerns on the Citizenship Amendment Bill and how it could affect the indigenous people of the Northeast.

Ali Akbar, a "declared foreigner" from Assam's Bongaigaon district, does not wish to return to the detention camp again – he was recently released from the Goalpara detention centre after a "traumatic" ordeal lasting four years.

The opposition BJP and Congress demanded the resignation of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik over the surge in crime against women in the state, while the ruling BJD urges other parties not to politicise the 'sensitive case'.

Nithyananda, who is learnt to have fled India last year and has a number of rape cases to his name, has bought an island in Ecuador in central Latin America. The "new nation" is named Kailaasa.

Power Minister RK Singh attributed the losses in discoms to theft, inefficiencies in billing and collection by distribution companies, and government departments not paying their dues on time.