Frightened over a probe into transactions worth lakhs of rupees in a bank account which he had not opened, a poor mason has committed suicide here, police said on Thursday.
The Congress Karnataka unit president D K Shivakumar on Thursday described the BJP government's plans to free Hindu temples from state control as a historic blunder and said that his party won't allow it.
Observing that a child should not be made to suffer due to a dispute between a husband and wife, the Supreme Court has asked an Army officer to look after the maintenance of his 13-year-old son till he attains the age of majority.
NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said he never gave up the ideologies of Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Yashwantrao Chavan even after parting ways with the Congress to form his own party.
The Kaup Municipality election vote counting process for the 23 wards culminated with BJP securing victory in 12 places, while Congress secured wins in 7 places, SDPI in 3 places and JDS in 1 place, respectively.
China's Zero-COVID-19 case policy is increasingly coming under stress as the country is reporting a spike in the number of coronavirus infections from different provinces ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games with over 2,500 people undergoing treatment.
Omicron accounts for 46 per cent of the 115 COVID-19 samples analysed in the national capital and the new, fast-spreading variant of concern is gradually spreading in the community, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on Thursday.
Chhattisgarh Police on Thursday arrested Kalicharan Maharaj from neighbouring Madhya Pradesh in connection with his alleged derogatory remarks against Mahatma Gandhi, an official said.
Three Jaish-e-Mohammad militants, including a Pakistani national, were killed in an overnight encounter with security forces in the Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Thursday.
An earthquake of 4.1 magnitude struck Pithoragarh district post-midnight on Thursday but no damage has been reported.