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Gaya: Four people, including a man and his son, died allegedly of asphyxiation after inhaling toxic gas while repairing a motor inside a well in Bihar's Gaya district Friday, officials said. The incident occurred at Garh Karmauni village in Dobhi police station area of the...

New Delhi: India has emerged as a major power in global defence manufacturing, with exports of military hardware surging to Rs 38,424 crore in 2025-26 driven by a significant push toward indigenous production, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said Friday. In a message to the armed...

New Delhi: Voicing concern over the circulation of clips of court proceedings on social media without adequate context, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant has said that his oral remarks were "misquoted" and misused with "malicious intent" to mislead the youth of the country. On...

New Delhi: Supreme Court Friday quashed FIRs registered against YouTuber and comedian Samay Raina and four others in connection with "offensive remarks" made about Persons with Disabilities during an episode of the show 'India's Got Latent'. A Bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant,...

New Delhi: Supreme Court Friday quashed the criminal defamation complaint and summon issued by a trial court against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his remarks against Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu said the required sanction was not obtained...

New Delhi: Five places in the national Capital received bomb threats a day before the nation celebrates its 80th Independence Day, officials of the Delhi Fire Service (DFS) said Friday. According to the DFS, the locations in Delhi which received calls alleging bomb blasts are...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday stayed an order of the Madras High Court which quashed Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay's order providing government jobs to relatives of people who died in a stampede at Karur last year. A bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and...

New Delhi: Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant Friday termed the Bar Council of India’s (BCI) intervention in the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research University of Law, NALSAR controversy as “completely unnecessary” and reaffirmed that students have a fundamental right to protest,...

New Delhi: A total of 1,057 personnel from Police, Fire, Home Guard and Civil Defence, and Correctional Services have been awarded Gallantry and Service Medals on the occasion of Independence Day 2026, the Ministry of Home Affairs said Friday. According to the ministry, honours include...

New Delhi: Centre Friday notified 40 questions - caste, place of Covid vaccination being two of them - to be asked of respondents during the population enumeration phase of the Census, set to begin from September 1 in snow-bound areas, a government order said. The...