New Delhi: The government has withdrawn a draft Live-stock and Live-stock Products (Importation and Exportation) Bill after concerns over a provision in the legislation to allow for the import and export of "live animals".

New Delhi: A Dehradun-bound Indigo flight carrying 108 passengers made an emergency landing at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport here on Wednesday after it developed a technical snag, according to officials.

New Delhi: Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday issued an appeal for peace in Manipur and said the unprecedented violence that has devastated the lives of people of the state has left a deep wound on the nation's conscience.

Hyderabad: As many as 3,000 persons with disabilities practised yoga together here in an attempt to secure the world record at an event organised to celebrate International Yoga Day on Wednesday, in which Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Virendra Kumar took part.

Ballia (UP): Amid the rise in deaths at the Ballia district hospital, an Uttar Pradesh health department official flagged power cuts among the factors responsible for the worsening condition of the patients before they were brought there.

Chittoor: Chittoor district police in Andhra Pradesh have transferred six policemen and registered a case to investigate allegations of torture and sexual harassment levelled against them by five women from Tamil Nadu who were part of a gang of eight people booked for crimes related to property offences, police said on Wednesday. On June 15, police arrested the eight accused but released six of them, including the five women, on humanitarian grounds, as they were involved in only one case earlier, invoking 41 A CrPc (appearance before a police officer). Property offences may include theft, extortion, robbery and dacoity, criminal misappropriation of property, criminal breach of trust, receiving stolen property, cheating, and fraudulent deed and disposition of property.

New Delhi: Former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt's children, Aakashi and Shantanu Bhatt, recently took to social media to mark the fourth year of their father's incarceration and express their sentiments about his wrongful conviction. In a heartfelt post, they shared their memories, their disappointment with the justice system, and their unwavering support for their father's fight for justice.

On Monday (June 19), India's most significant airline, IndiGo, made history by placing an enormous aircraft order of 500 Airbus A320 neo family planes at the Paris Air Show. This is the greatest number of aircraft ever to be requested in a single go, superseding the February order of 470 Airbus and Boeing aircraft placed by Air India.