The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that decision to challenge the grant of bail by the Allahabad High Court to Ashish Mishra, son of Union minister Ajay Mishra, in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri violence that left eight people, including four farmers, dead is pending consideration before the relevant authorities.
India has one of the "lowest" 374 COVID-19 deaths per million population, according to the World Health Organisation, compared to similarly affected countries like the USA, Brazil, Russia and Mexico, the government said on Tuesday.
Karnataka’s ten state highways will reportedly begin collecting tolls from travellers passing through the highway. The review of bids placed by private companies to undertake toll collection from the 10 highways’ in the state is currently underway. Shimoga – Shikaripura- Ganagal, Karkala – Padubidri, and Davanagere Birur state highways are included in the list, the deccanherald.com has reported.
Sagar: Dead body of a young lady doctor was found in a lake here in the city. The incident was reported from Sagar on Monday night.
In an incident that reportedly occurred on Tuesday morning, a 45-year-old man identified as Shankarappa - who had been in the news for having married a 25-year-old woman five months earlier – died by suicide at Huliyur Durga Hobali in the Taluk.
The government on Tuesday said only authorised law enforcement agencies in the country are empowered to tap telephones or intercept and monitor any electronically transmitted information.
BJP MLAs Vijender Gupta and O P Sharma were marshalled out of the Delhi Assembly for the day by the speaker for allegedly obstructing the AAP members from raising law-and-order and other issues.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written to her non-BJP counterparts and other opposition leaders urging them to come together and unitedly fight the saffron party.
A 4.3-magnitude earthquake jolted Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) said.
A 42-year-old man was charred to death on Tuesday after an alleged failed attempt to set ablaze his friend, whose marriage was fixed with another person recently.