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Bengaluru: The Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act, 1974 (COFEPOSA), has been invoked against arrested Kannada actress Ranya Rao in connection with a gold smuggling case, sources confirmed Friday. The Central Economic Intelligence Bureau (CEIB), a nodal agency under the Ministry...

New Delhi: Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) president Alok Kumar Friday called for the integration of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) into India and the end of terrorism sponsored by the neighbouring country. The RSS affiliate and its youth wing Bajrang Dal held a nationwide protest against the...

New Delhi: The Centre Friday sought the Supreme Court to dismiss the pleas challenging validity of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 and said there cannot be a blanket stay on the law as there was a presumption of its constitutionality. In a 1,332-page preliminary counter...

New Delhi: A Delhi court Friday refused to issue notice to Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, and others in the National Herald money laundering case for now. Special judge Vishal Gogne was acting on a plea of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which claimed...

New Delhi: Offering relief to activist Medha Patkar, a Delhi court Friday ordered her release on furnishing a Probation Bond and payment of Rs one lakh compensation in a defamation case filed in 2001 by Delhi Lt Governor V.K. Saxena. The order came within hours...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday censured Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for "irresponsible" remarks on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar at a rally in Maharashtra but stayed the criminal proceedings against him. A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Manmohan said, "Let's not mock our freedom fighters."...

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah Friday called up the Chief Ministers of all the states and asked them to ensure that no Pakistani stays in India beyond the deadline set for leaving the country, sources said. India Thursday announced revoking all visas issued...

Patna: Sanjeev Mukhiya, the prime accused in the NEET-UG paper leak case, was arrested from the Saguna Mor under Danapur police station limits, here. Nayyer Hasnain Khan, ADG of the Economic Offences Unit (EOU) of Bihar Police, said Mukhiya was arrested late Thursday night. "Based...

Srinagar: Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who arrived in Kashmir Friday, met those injured in the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack. Congress leaders said here that Rahul Gandhi visited the Army's Base Hospital in Badamibagh Cantonment area of Srinagar, where those injured in the terror...

New Delhi: Former ISRO chief K Kasturirangan passed away in Bengaluru Friday, officials said. The 84-year-old had been unwell for quite some time. "He left for heavenly abode this morning at his residence in Bengaluru. His body will be kept at Raman Research Institute (RRI)...