New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday dismissed the bail plea of former JNU student Umar Khalid who is accused in the alleged larger conspiracy behind the 2020 northeast Delhi communal riots.

Pune: The Pune police have said there is prima facie truth in a complaint filed against Rahul Gandhi by V D Savarkar's grandnephew who had accused the Congress leader of defaming the Hindutva ideologue in a speech made in London in 2023.

New Delhi: A court here on Tuesday granted three days to Delhi Police for custodial interrogation of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s aide Bibhav Kumar, who has been accused of assaulting AAP Rajya Sabha member Swati Maliwal.

Aizawl: At least 22 people, including 13 in a collapsed stone quarry, were killed in Mizoram on Tuesday due to landslides and incessant rain in the aftermath of cyclone 'Remal', officials said.

Bansgaon (UP): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Tuesday that an INDIA bloc government will end the 50 per cent cap on reservation while asserting that the alliance will protect the Constitution with "dil, jaan aur khoon".

Dehradun: A video of a man harassing two Digambar Jain monks in Uttarakhand has gone viral on social media, following which the police have formed a Special Task Force to probe the incident, a senior official said on Tuesday.

Popular YouTuber Dhruv Rathee refuted the recent 'fake allegations' against him by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal that she had been receiving rape and death threats after he posted a video on the alleged assault on her by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's personal assistant Bibhav Kumar, saying he was used to issues like fake allegations, daily death threats, insults and defamation campaigns against him.

A few weeks ago, AstraZeneca, the company that developed the ChAdOx1-S/nCoV-19 [recombinant] vaccine, 175 crore doses of which were given in India under the name Covishield, admitted in a London court that its vaccine could have caused blood clots, heart attacks, and strokes, and later, on May 5, 2024, said it was withdrawing that vaccine. People who have lost their loved ones due to side effects or who have suffered serious or permanent disabilities are filing lawsuits against the makers of COVID vaccine companies in many parts of the world seeking compensation. Such cases have also been filed in India in the past and the statement by AstraZeneca has added new momentum to these complaints.