Chennai: Makkal Needhi Maiam president and actor Kamal Haasan on Monday said he has tested positive for COVID-19 and has been admitted to a hospital.

Mumbai: A Mumbai Court recently acquitted a man who was pressed charges under insulting the modesty of a woman under Section 509 of the IPC for sending sexually explicit messages to a woman and observed that sending sexually explicit messages to a woman whom the accused was proposing to marry and who had not raised any objection to the same at the relevant point of time, will not amount to insulting her modesty.

New Delhi: Hearing a plea of a 17-year-old Dalit boy, the Supreme Court of India on Monday ordered the creation of a seat in the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. According to the plea, the student was unable to pay his ‘seat acceptance fees’ on time due to technical issues after he had qualified for the IIT exam.

Lucknow: AIMIM Chief and MP from Hyderabad Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday demanded that the Centre should repeal the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens NRC.

A Delhi court has framed charges of arson and rioting against a father-son duo for allegedly damaging and setting a Mosque on fire, vandalism, and stone-pelting during the February 2020 riots.

Group Captain Abhinandan Varthaman, who downed an enemy jet during an aerial combat with Pakistan in 2019 and was held captive for three days in that country, was on Monday honoured with the Vir Chakra award by President Ram Nath Kovind.

The Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly on Monday passed a Bill to repeal the controversial AP Decentralisation and Inclusive Development of All Regions Act, 2020, that was intended to establish three capitals for the state.

The Supreme Court Monday granted protection from arrest to former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh in criminal cases lodged against him in Maharashtra and sought responses from the state government, its DGP and the CBI on his plea.