The Delhi High Court on Friday refused to interfere with the arrest and subsequent police remand of NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and portal's human resources department head Amit Chakravarty in a case lodged under anti-terror law UAPA.

The government has rejected the 2023 Global Hunger Index in which India ranked 111th, calling it a flawed measure of "hunger" that does not reflect the country's true position.

The CBI has arrested from Pune a 22-year-old man suspected to be the mastermind behind the case of two missing Manipuri students who were believed to have been killed, officials said Friday.

India ranked 111th out of 125 countries in the Global Hunger Index-2023 with the country reporting the highest child wasting rate at 18.7 per cent.

The decision by Delhi Lieutenant-Governor Vinay Kumar Saxena to grant the Delhi Police sanction to prosecute renowned writer Arundhati Roy and former Professor of International Law at Central University of Kashmir, Sheikh Showkat Hussain, has sparked condemnation from the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL). The charges stem from speeches made by Arundhati Roy and others at a convention on Kashmir, titled 'Azadi: The Only Way,' organized in New Delhi in October 2010.

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a PIL challenging Darwin's theory of evolution and Einstein's theory of special relativity that expresses the equivalence of mass and energy.

The Supreme Court on Friday junked as "frivolous" a PIL seeking a direction that Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya be sworn in again as the Bombay High Court Chief Justice as the oath was not taken as prescribed under the Constitution.

 The Tamil Nadu government will strongly fight for the release of 14,000 cusecs of Cauvery river water by Karnataka to the state, Water Resources Minister Duraimurugan said on Friday amidst the travails of farmers in the delta districts in saving standing paddy crops.