New Delhi: Rejecting accusations of saffronisation of school curriculum, NCERT's director has said that references to Gujarat riots and Babri masjid demolition were modified in school textbooks because teaching about riots "can create violent and depressed citizens."

Mangesh Pandilkar, brother-in-law of Mumbai North West Lok Sabha MP Ravindra Waikar, has been accused of violating electoral norms by allegedly using a mobile phone inside a counting center during the announcement of the 2024 Lok Sabha Election results. The incident reportedly took place on June 4 at a center in Goregaon, a part of Waikar's constituency.

Amid protests over the severe water crisis in the national capital, Delhi minister Saurabh Bharadwaj on Sunday accused BJP leaders and workers of vandalising an office of the Delhi Jal Board.

NEET, 'masquerading' as a measure of merit, is a 'scam' and the Centre must stop defending the national test as it went against the interests of students and it is also against social justice and poor, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin said on Sunday.

The opposition Congress in Gujarat on Tuesday alleged that IAS officer and former collector of Surat Aayush Oak was involved in a Rs 2,000 crore land scam, exposed by the party in May.

A 58-year-old woman, her two sisters, and her brother-in-law were found dead in an apartment in Gujarat's Surat city on Saturday, police said.

Six persons went missing after a boat capsized in the Ganga river in Barh sub-division of Patna district on Sunday, officials said.

A fire broke out at a factory in Mundka area of outer Delhi on Sunday, officials of the Delhi Fire Service said.