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New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday held that police cannot investigate offences under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act. The PCPNDT Act was enacted with the intent to prohibit the use of prenatal diagnostic techniques for determination of the sex of the foetus....

New Delhi: Alleged conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar Thursday wrote a letter from jail to former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and ex-minister Satyender Jain, threatening to expose three more "key scams". "Dear Kejriwal Ji, Satyender Ji, and Proxy Party, one more tick in the box, to...

New Delhi: Former Congress MP, Sajjan Kumar, who was serving life imprisonment in connection with cases arising from the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, died Thursday at a Delhi hospital. He was 80. Kumar, lodged in Tihar Jail, was taken to Safdarjung Hospital after his health deteriorated....

New Delhi: Journalist Tarun Tejpal Thursday moved the Supreme Court against his conviction in a 2013 sexual assault case. The appeal against the August 6 order of the Bombay High Court has been filed through advocate Aditya Samaddar. Earlier, the Goa government moved the top...

New Delhi: Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju Thursday said border areas had been neglected in the past but were now a top priority of the Narendra Modi government, as he sought to counter claims of fresh Chinese incursions in Arunachal Pradesh. Rijiju also invoked...

New Delhi: The NSUI has criticised the NCERT's reconstituted Textbook Development Team for political science textbooks of Classes 11 and 12, saying that the team includes members who have direct or indirect links with the RSS-affiliated ecosystem. The National Students' Union of India (NSUI) raised...

New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday received his Japanese counterpart, Shinjiro Koizumi, in New Delhi, for high-level talks to deepen defence cooperation between the two countries. Welcoming the Japanese Defence Minister, Rajnath Singh took to X and posted, "Konichiwa Koizumi San! Happy to...

Ranchi: Leader of Opposition (LoP) Babulal Marandi has written to Chief Minister Hemant Soren demanding a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into irregularities in the Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission-Combined Graduate Level (JSSC-CGL) examination and the 11th to 13th Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) Civil...

New Delhi/ Kabul: Continuing with its humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, India Thursday delivered medicines and medical consumables to a government hospital in Kabul. Taking to X, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) posted: "Augmenting Afghanistan's healthcare! Reaffirming its enduring health partnership with the friendly people...

Hyderabad: Four members of a family, including two children, were killed when a car in which they were travelling plunged into a well in Telangana’s Siddipet district, police said Thursday. The accident occurred near Appanapalli in Dubbaka mandal of Siddipet district late Wednesday night. The...