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Special Judge Arvind Kumar of Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court has now issued summonses to the accused and listed the matter for October 23.

These are the top stories we are covering this afternoon: Farmers Hold Nationwide Protests Against Farm Bills; Election Commission to Announce Bihar Assembly Election Dates today; Punjab Considers Making Entire State a ‘Mandi Yard’ to Bypass New Farm Laws...

The Delhi police charge sheet has said Khurshid and Raj were among politicians who gave provocative speeches during the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

While JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar said "misinformation" was being spread about the agricultural bills, party general secretary KC Tyagi expressed his reservations about them.

Besides Chomsky and Nair, the signatories include actor Ratna Pathak Shah, authors Amitav Ghosh, Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy, and journalist P Sainath.

The query by a bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan was posed to Choksi's counsel during the hearing of his appeal against a single judge order which dismissed his plea for pre-screening of Netflix docuseries 'Bad Boy Billionaires'.

Police say that four people have been arrested while police have deployed additional personnel in both villages to avoid any escalation.

The Rajya Sabha is likely to adjourn sine die after taking up five bills on Wednesday, while the Lower House may be adjourned after taking up a few matters.

Facebook India executives last week had skipped a summon issued by the Assembly's panel for Peace and Harmony over a Wall Street Journal report that claimed Facebook deliberately did not act on hateful content in the country.

Sources had said her medical check-up was overdue and was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

As per available information, 81,385 accidents occurred on the roads (including national highways) during the period March-June with 29,415 fatalities, VK Singh informed Parliament.

Till late night, the protesting MPs raised slogans and sang songs while a host of Opposition leaders such as National Conference's Farooq Abdullah, Samajwadi Party's Jaya Bachchan and Congress' Ahmed Patel, Digvijaya Singh and Shashi Tharoor visited them...

Khan, a medical doctor, was recently released from the Mathura jail after the Allahabad High Court quashed his detention under the stringent National Security Act.

The MSP (Minimum Support Price) of wheat, the biggest crop of rabi season, has been hiked by Rs 50 to Rs 1,975 per quintal, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said in Lok Sabha.

The Parliament met for the first time in six months on September 14 and was to function until October 1, but two officials said its duration could be reduced by a week.

With anger among farmers of Haryana and Punjab -- the bases of Jannayak Janata Party and Shiromani Akali Dal -- clearly and rapidly rising over the contentious agricultural reform bills, the question before the parties is who will blink first.