India

The Delhi High Court on Thursday sought responses of the Centre and the Election Commission of India (ECI) on a petition seeking to restrain all political parties from making promises of offering freebies to people if they are voted to power.

UP Special Task Force has unearthed one of the biggest online frauds – claimed to be around Rs 37,00 Cr – in recent times which was being run under the aegis of social trading.

Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur was on Wednesday acquitted along with seven others by a local court in the murder case of RSS parcharak Sunil Joshi for lack of evidence.

The oil marketer, however, cut by Rs 66.50 the rate of the non-subsidised liquefied petroleum gas cylinder of 14.2 kg, which customers purchase at market price after exhausting the subsidised quota.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday removed Manoj Kumar, a senior officer of the probe agency's eastern region, from all investigation responsibilities of the Rose Valley ponzi scam.

An 11-year-old girl, Riddhi (name changed), facing abuse from her stepfather wrote out her ordeal on the walls of her house, seeking strength to counter the trauma from her dead mother.

Nine workers died after inhaling poisonous gas while cleaning a tank at a factory in Maharashtra's Latur district.

The Supreme Court on Monday said that it would like to lay down the law on the issue of recusal of judges from a case after a lawyer sought Chief Justice JS Khehar's recusal from hearing a matter related to appointment of judges.

Amidst chill in Indo-Pak ties, Pakistan has declined an invitation by Indian Parliament and Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) to attend South Asian Speakers' Summit to be held next month.

As many as 67 students, including 16 kids belonging to scheduled caste category, of a government primary school are reportedly not having lunch prepared by a Dalit woman for the mid-day meal since July.

The Reserve Bank of India has lifted the restrictions on cash withdrawals from bank accounts and ATMs, in a sign that the pace of remonetisation is picking up.

The bench said that the fresh order would make it clear that Singh's appointment as ED director would be for two years from October 27 last year.

Pratapgarh, Kaushambi, Allahabad, Jalaun, Jhansi, Lalitpur, Mahoba, Banda, Hamirpur, Chitrakoot and Fatehpur are the other districts going to polls in the fourth phase.

Police have arrested a man working as a watchman at the Infosys office in Pune on Monday for the murder of a 25-year-old woman.

Senior IAS officer Sanjay Pratap Singh and his personal assistant have been summoned as accused by a special court for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 2.2 lakh.

Senior Income Tax officer Madhu Mahajan has been debarred from central deputation till her retirement next year.