Announcing the crackdown, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, said some mosques could be closed if found to be "breeding grounds of terrorism" and encouraging "separatism"....
Prominent farmer leader and Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) President Balbir Singh Rajewal, who has been holding talks with the Centre, complained of dizziness on Friday and was taken to Fortis Hospital in Gurugram for a check-up....
A major setback for the BJP is that the party candidate has lost Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's constituency. In Gorakhpur too, an independent Dhruv Kumar Tripathi has won the elections....
Six opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) MLAs were suspended for the day on Friday by the Speaker as the Andhra Pradesh Assembly witnessed pandemonium on the fifth day of its Winter Session. ...
In another fallout of the new anti-conversion law, a Muslim youth was allegedly abused and beaten inside the court premises in Aligarh where he had come with a girl, to get legally married....
Addressing an all-party meeting on Covid vaccines delivery and distribution, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that state governments' advise will be sought on the matter as to who all will get the inoculation first, and urged political leaders to write in their suggestions....
The Telangana High Court on Friday suspended a circular of the State Election Commission (SEC) declaring ballot papers with 'distinguish mark' instead of arrow cross-mark as valid in the elections for Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC). The court passed the orders on a House motion moved by the BJP challengin...
A 38-year-old addict Praveen was arrested for severely injuring his mother by battering her with an iron pestle after she refused to give him money to buy drugs, police said on Friday. Praveen had returned a few days ago from a de-addiction centre and suspected ...
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday served yet another notice to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's close aide CM Ravindran to appear for questioning in the gold smuggling case on December 10. It is the third ED notice to him. A day after he was served the first notice by the central agency, he had tested ...
BJP is emerging as a major gainer in the elections to 11 seats of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council which began a day ago and is still underway amid tight security on Friday. The BJP, earlier, had not put up candidates in these elections but this time, the ...
