The Manipur government on Friday told the Supreme Court that it has filed a status report on the issue of recovery of arms from "all sources" in the ethnic violence-hit state.

Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was released from house arrest on Friday, four years after he was taken into detention in the wake of abrogation of the provisions of Article 370 of the Constitution in August 2019, officials said here.

Puducherry Chief Minister N Rangasamy on Thursday said the territorial administration would bear the full tuition fees payable by students from government schools joining the undergraduate medical courses in the Union Territory, during the current academic year.

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a PIL seeking an audit of the software used in electronic voting machines (EVMs) used by the Election Commission.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was accorded a warm welcome at the BJP headquarters here on Friday by the party's women wing, a day after Parliament passed the women's reservation bill.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday expressed regret in the Lok Sabha for certain "objectionable" remarks made by BJP member Ramesh Bidhuri.

Hailing the passage of the Women's Reservation Bill in Parliament, BRS leader K Kavitha said she would continue her fight 'to safeguard' and seek assured representation for OBC women.

The man accused in the case of attack on a woman constable on board a train here was gunned down, while two other accused were injured in an encounter with police on Friday, a senior official said.