New Delhi: More than 130 former civil servants on Saturday wrote an open letter to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) against the premature release of 11 men who were jailed in the gangrape case of Bilkis Bano and requested him to rectify this "horrendously wrong decision".

Chennai: The much-awaited report of a panel that probed the circumstances surrounding late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's death, was on Saturday submitted to the Tamil Nadu government and it will be placed before the state cabinet in its August 29 meet.

Bengaluru: Veteran BJP leader B S Yediyurappa on Saturday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has agreed to his request of visiting Karnataka, where the party is aiming to come back to power, at least once a month, in the run-up to the 2023 Assembly polls.

Pakistan has called in India's Charge d'Affaires here to lodge a strong protest over the death of a Pakistani prisoner in Kashmir, in what it termed as a "fake encounter".

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday claimed that the Centre did not have to impose GST on food items if the BJP had not spent a whopping Rs 6,300 crore on toppling governments of other parties in the country.

The Delhi Lieutenant Governor's office has returned 47 files signed by the CMO staff instead of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, sources said Saturday. The move is likely to intensify the tussle between the two constitutional authorities in the national capital.

Chief pontiff of a Chitradurga-based prominent mutt is among the five people booked by the police under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, for allegedly sexually abusing high school girls, police sources said on Saturday.

National Conference president Farooq Abdullah did not appear before the court in a money laundering case related to the alleged financial irregularities in the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) here on Saturday due to health issues .