New Delhi: The Supreme Court did some tough talking on Friday over the governors of Punjab and Tamil Nadu delaying assent to bills passed by the state legislatures, cautioning the Raj Bhawan occupant in Chandigarh against "playing with fire" and observing his counterpart in Chennai, accused of "sitting over" 12 bills, was a "matter of concern".

Nabarangpur/Bhubaneswar: An 11-year-old tribal girl student was raped allegedly by two teachers in a toilet of a state-run school in Odisha's Nabarangpur district, sparking a statewide outcry and opposition parties demanding justice for the victim, police said on Friday.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea seeking a direction to the Centre to make guidelines for "protection" of Hinduism in India.

Kolkata: Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra on Friday claimed that the Ethics Committee's recommendation to expel her from Lok Sabha stems from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's desperation' to keep the Adani group's alleged coal scam under wraps and he wants to gag anyone who flags this issue.

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Friday modified its earlier order and said firecrackers can be burst only between 8 pm and 10 pm during Diwali in view of the air pollution situation.

New Delhi: Kobbi Shoshani, the Consul General of Israel to Midwest India in Mumbai, stirred controversy on Friday by sharing a misleading video on X (formerly Twitter), falsely asserting that Palestinian children were faking injuries to portray Israeli oppression.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court castigated the Uttar Pradesh government on Friday for not complying with its order to depute an agency for counselling the Muslim boy and his classmates who were allegedly instructed by their school teacher to slap him for not completing his homework.

A man was arrested on Friday for allegedly making a hoax bomb threat to a police station in Ernakulam district, police said.