Patna: The budget session of the Bihar assembly commenced on Friday on a stormy note, as many opposition members staged protests against a provocative statement about minorities by a ruling BJP MLA and suspected lynching of a leader of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U) by cow vigilantes.
Targeting the BJP-led Union government over the use of central agencies, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said it has CBI, ED, police and goons, but what ultimately matters is truth, which Gujarat has taught the people of the country.
In an incident that occurred at an estate in Koove village, a 7-year-old girl child reportedly fell into a water tank while playing, resulting in her death at Mudigere Taluk.
A Bajrang Dal activist identified as Kitti aka Krishna was arrested by the Dharmasthala police for his involvement in the assault and death of a Dalit labourer named Dinesh, who used to work as a daily wage worker at Kanyadi, it is learned.
In an incident that reportedly occurred on Friday night, a congress leader was brutally murdered using lethal weapons by unknown criminals near Bairavanadoddi.
Chief Justice of India (CJI) N V Ramana on Saturday rued the lack of basic minimum standards of judicial infrastructure in the country and stressed the need of not only filling the existing vacancies but also raising the number of judges in high courts to efficiently deal with the intellectual property litigations.
An Air India plane from Mumbai landed in the Romanian capital Bucharest on Saturday morning to evacuate Indians stranded in Ukraine due to the Russian military offensive.
Russian troops stormed toward Ukraine's capital early Saturday, and street fighting broke out as city officials urged residents to take shelter. The country's president refused an American offer to evacuate, insisting that he would stay. The fight is here, he said.
India abstained on a US-sponsored UN Security Council resolution that "deplores in the strongest terms" Russia's "aggression" against Ukraine, with New Delhi saying dialogue is the only answer to settling differences and disputes and voicing "regret" that the path of diplomacy was given up.
New Delhi: The first batch of Indian nationals from Ukraine reached Romania on Friday afternoon after crossing the Suceava border post, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said.