Leaving the organisers of an event to protest against the CAA, NRC and NRP here red-faced, a young woman on Thursday raised "Pakistan Zindabad" slogan in the presence of AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, who denounced her action and asserted "we are for India"

 A special court here on Thursday sentenced a man to 12 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a 12-year-old mentally-challenged girl.

The Congress on Thursday alleged that the BJP-led central government was surreptitiously shutting down the crop insurance scheme by reducing its share of premium and putting the burden on farmers, leaving them in the lurch.

The Home Minister of Karnataka Basavaraj Bommai had claimed on the floor of the State Assembly that he apologized to me over a phone call for the manhandling by the Bengaluru police on December 19. This is false. I received no such call or apology from him, clarified historian Ramachandra Guha through Twitter.

Students of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) took out a protest march under the banner of Students' Coordination Committee here on Thursday against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, accusing him of shielding the state police from allegations of brutalities.

Seven people were arrested for torturing two Dalit men in Rajasthan's Nagaur district, an incident that triggered protests in the state assembly and condemnation by political leaders on Thursday.

Another 13 people on board a cruise ship that was quarantined off the coast of Japan have been diagnosed with the new coronavirus, the country's health ministry said on Thursday.

The Supreme Court-appointed interlocutors reached Shaheen Bagh on Thursday to initiate the second round of discussion, but they put a condition that media should not be present during the talks with protestors.