New Delhi: A Right to Information (RTI) query by transparency activist Commodore Lokesh Batra has revealed that the Narendra Modi government printed a substantial number of electoral bonds in 2024. Specifically, 8,350 electoral bonds valued at Rs 1 crore each were printed during this period. The bonds were printed after the Supreme Court had reserved its verdict on the constitutionality of the electoral bond scheme in November 2023.

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) on Wednesday, rejecting the plea seeking direction for the Union Government and the Election Commission of India (ECI) to register a complaint and prosecute politicians Rahul Gandhi, Arvind Kejriwal, and Akhilesh Yadav.

Two youths were charred to death when their house here was allegedly set on fire over a property dispute with relatives early Wednesday morning, said police.

The man who brutally murdered two children at their home in Budaun knew the family and had gone there seeking money for payment to a hospital where his pregnant wife is admitted, according to the FIR lodged on the matter.

A man was allegedly beaten up, forced to drink urine and wear a garland of shoes after he eloped with a married woman in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain district, prompting the police to initiate action into the incident.

Former Chief Minister and senior BJP leader B S Yediyurappa said on Wednesday the list of candidates for the remaining five Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka would be finalised on March 22.

The medical staff at the Gulbarga Institute of Medical Sciences (GIMS) Hospital in Kalaburagi are grappling with challenges in providing adequate care to patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) due to a malfunctioning air cooling system that broke down over a month ago.

A miffed Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) on Wednesday asked its Australian counterparts to "not succumb" to pressures from their government, which the south Asian country believes led to the postponement of a bilateral T20 series.