New Delhi: The Centre on Wednesday questioned before the Supreme Court the maintainability of a plea filed by Islamic preacher Zakir Naik seeking clubbing of FIRs filed in different states over his purported statements during the Ganapati festival in 2012.

Indore: The medical community on Tuesday "purified" the premises of the Government Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College by sprinkling Ganga water after a "Halloween party" was allegedly organised in the 150-year-old building on its campus.

Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has been cleared by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the alleged ₹371 crore Skill Development Corporation scam. Naidu had been accused of misappropriating funds, causing a purported loss of over ₹300 crore to the state exchequer.

Mumbai: Maharashtra BJP president Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Wednesday said Chief Minister Eknath Shinde should be willing to make "sacrifices", in terms of seat-sharing for the assembly polls, like the BJP has done to keep the alliance intact.

Mumbai: Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday said the NCP(SP) leader Sharad Pawar should declare the chief ministerial candidate of the Opposition's Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance first.

New Delhi: NCPCR chairperson Priyank Kanoongo said he never called for the closure of madrassas but recommended state funding to these institutions be stopped as they are depriving poor Muslim children of education.

Mumbai/ New Delhi: As many as 19 flights have received bomb threats in three days and a Riyadh-bound IndiGo flight was diverted to Muscat due to the threat, according to officials.

Sri Puneet Kumar, LIC Zonal Manager, Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has today handed over an ambulance to the Sahaj Marg Spirituality Foundation’s Hospital, on behalf of LIC’s Golden Jubilee Foundation, in a function held at the hospital in Chegur Village of Kothur Mandal in the outskirts of Hyderabad. The Foundation is the world’s largest meditation Center and LIC is supporting their activities by providing an ambulance through their LIC’s Golden Jubilee Foundation.