In a successful rescue operation, all 41 workers who had been trapped inside Uttarakhand's Silkyari tunnel since November 12 were safely evacuated. The rescued workers, draped in orange marigold flower garlands, were warmly welcomed by Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami and Union Minister VK Singh.

New Delhi: As the Centre on Tuesday submitted that it wanted to extend the tenure of the Delhi chief secretary who is due to retire on November 30, the Supreme Court sought to know under which power it can do so and quipped if it was "stuck with only one person" and didn't have any other IAS officer for the post.

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation seeking a ban on the use of loudspeakers for azaan or the Islamic call to prayer at mosques, terming the plea as "wholly misconceived."

New Delhi: Three of 41 men trapped underground in a tunnel in Uttarakhand's Silkyara have been rescued, capping a frantic 17-day multi-agency op that relied, in the final stretch, on the banned manual "rat-hole"-mining technique employed after high-tech machines, or augers, failed to drill through the nearly 60 metres of rock that threatened to bury the workers.

Ahmedabad: A court here on Tuesday acquitted Congress legislator and Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani and six others in a 2016 case registered against them for unlawful assembly and rioting.

Srinagar: After it faced flak from a section of politicians, the Jammu and Kashmir Police on Tuesday defended booking under UAPA seven university students who had raised objectionable slogans after the Indian cricket team's in the World cup final, saying it had invoked a "softer provision" of the anti-terror law.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought a response from TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu on a plea by the Andhra Pradesh government against a high court order granting regular bail to him in the skill development corporation scam case.

A temple in Uttar Pradesh's Siddharthnagar district was 'purified' with 'gangajal' after a visit by a Muslim MLA of the Samajwadi Party.