New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday permitted the Tamil Nadu government to allocate 50 per cent of super-speciality seats in government medical colleges to NEET-qualified in-service candidates for the current academic year.

Raipur: The ED on Friday arrested Saumya Chaurasia, a deputy secretary rank officer posted in Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel's office, in connection with a money laundering investigation into an alleged coal levy scam in the state, official sources said.

New Delhi/Aligarh: A passenger on board the Delhi-Kanpur Neelachal Express died on Friday after being impaled by an iron rod that broke through a glass window of the coach and struck him in the neck, an official said.

New Delhi: Actor Nora Fatehi appeared before the Enforcement Directorate here on Friday for a fresh recording of her statement in connection with an ongoing money-laundering probe against alleged conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar and his associates, official sources said.

The Kerala High Court on Friday dismissed a plea filed by the state government seeking to cancel the anticipatory bail granted to Congress MLA Eldhose Kunnappilly facing charge of rape and attempt to murder.

Jaiveer Shergill was appointed BJP spokesperson on Friday, three months after he quit the Congress, expressing anger towards the Gandhis.

Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Friday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of raking up the issue of Uniform Civil Code (UCC) whenever there are elections.

Accusing Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan of encouraging a woman journalist to hit Odisha's Agriculture Minister Ranendra Pratap Swain during his campaign for Padampur bypoll, the ruling BJD sought "suitable action" against the senior BJP leader.