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New Delhi: Days after his dismissal as professor from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Congress MP Angomcha Bimol Akoijam has been booked on charges of sexual harassment and insulting a woman's modesty, according to Delhi Police officials. The FIR was registered on a complaint lodged by the...

Dhaka/New Delhi: Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed will skip the first-ever meeting of home ministers of the BIMSTEC grouping in New Delhi, with a delegation led by a senior bureaucrat set to represent Dhaka amid strained ties between India and Bangladesh. Home Affairs Senior Secretary Manzur...

New Delhi: The Congress Monday said the government should prorogue both houses of Parliament and hold an all-party dialogue on the delimitation issue, but stressed that for any meaningful discussion to proceed it was first important that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar should resign. Congress...

New Delhi: Chief Justice of India (CJI) Justice Surya Kant Monday said the true measure of a human rights institution lies not merely in the number of cases it decides, but in whether it can be heard by those who are least able to make...

New Delhi: The entry and exit gates at six Delhi Metro stations, including Central Secretariat, Rajiv Chowk and Patel Chowk, will remain closed till 4 pm Monday ahead of a protest announced by the Congress against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. The Delhi Metro Rail...

Sangameshwar: A major fire broke out at a scrap warehouse owned by Amit Paswan, opposite the Maruti Temple in Sangameshwar in Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri district, around midnight, destroying a large quantity of scrap material and causing preliminary losses estimated at over Rs 2 lakh. The firefighting...

Thiruvananthapuram: The Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) will register two FIRs in the controversial cases at the Vigilance Court here on Monday, naming former Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and CPI(M) legislator and former Minister P.A. Mohammed Riyas as the first accused in separate cases. The...

New Delhi: Security arrangements remained heightened across central Delhi Monday as Opposition parties prepare to march from Connaught Place towards the Supreme Court to protest alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and demand action against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar....

New Delhi: The second day of Shardiya Navaratri, dedicated to Maa Brahmacharini, began with prayers, devotion and faith across the nation, as devotees flocked to temples to offer prayers to Goddess Durga and seek blessings. On the second day of Navratri, devotees visited the renowned...

New Delhi: India Sunday trashed the UN human rights agency's remarks voicing concerns over the detention of thousands of protesters in Delhi, describing them as "unwarranted" and an "unacceptable interference" in the country's internal affairs. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)...