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My clashes with media won't hinder Agastya's destiny to be a star: Jaya Bachchan

Mumbai, Feb. 24 -- Veteran actor and Rajya Sabha member Jaya Bachchan has rejected suggestions that her long-standing friction with the paparazzi could be influencing the early trajectory of her grand... Read More


Five children among 6 of family charred to death in Meerut cloth trader's house blaze

MEERUT, Feb. 24 -- Six members of a cloth trader's family, including five children, were killed and several others narrowly escaped after a fire broke out in a three-storey residential building in the... Read More


SC says Haldwani railway Lland encroachers have no legal right to be there

New Delhi, Feb. 24 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday held that occupants living on encroached railway land in Haldwani, Uttarakhand, do not have a vested legal right to remain there, a ruling that could... Read More


SC asks NGT to revive matter on remediation of polluted rivers

New Delhi, Feb. 24 -- Observing that the right to pollution-free water is a fundamental right, the Supreme Court on Tuesday closed its 2021 suo motu proceedings on remediation of polluted rivers and d... Read More


Allahabad HC slams UP Police in cow slaughter cases

Prayagraj, Feb. 24 -- The Allahabad High Court pulled up the Uttar Pradesh Police for filing what it described as a "movie script" first information report (FIR) in a cow slaughter case. According to... Read More


Scooter rider dies after falling into open drain along GT Road in Ghaziabad

Ghaziabad, Feb. 24 -- A 48-year-old man riding a scooter died after falling into an open drain along the Grand Trunk Road near the Thakurdwara flyover in Ghaziabad late Sunday night, police said on Mo... Read More


HC says The Kerala Story 2 wrongly portrays state, teaser pulled down

Hyderabad, Feb. 24 -- Goes Beyond' wrongly portrays people of the state, the Kerala High Court sought the central government's decision to screen the movie before it decides on pleas challenging its c... Read More


CCEA approves Rs 9,072 crore railway projects

New Delhi, Feb. 24 -- The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday approved three Railway ministry projects with a total cost of approximately R... Read More


Avimukteshwaranand moves Alld HC, seeks anticipatory bail in POCSO case

Varanasi, Feb. 24 -- Jyotish Peeth 'Shankaracharya' Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati on Tuesday moved the Allahabad High Court seeking anticipatory bail in a case registered against him for alleged ... Read More


Why the Supreme Court's caution on freebies demands the attention of India's political class

New Delhi, Feb. 24 -- At one level, the Supreme Court's (SC) chastisement last week of political parties and elected governments announcing freebies and direct cash transfers to woo voters ahead of el... Read More