Police fired teargas shells and resorted to baton charge after a group of youths allegedly turned violent and pelted stones amid a massive protest and shutdown here.

 The Election Commission of India (EC) has introduced a mandatory Aadhaar-linked phone verification system for those seeking to register, delete, or correct voter details online. The move comes less than a week after Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi alleged large-scale misuse of online voter deletion forms in Karnataka’s Aland constituency ahead of the 2023 Assembly elections.

The Allahabad High Court has held that if conversion is illegal, a marriage based on it will be automatically invalid and the man and woman cannot be recognised as a married couple in the eyes of law.

Launching a frontal attack on the BJP, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday accused it of orchestrating “vote chori” and communal polarisation and asserted that the Bihar Assembly elections would mark the beginning of end of the Modi government's "corrupt rule”.

 Actor Sonu Sood on Wednesday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for questioning in a money-laundering case linked to an online betting app named 1xBet, officials said.

Chief Justice of India B R Gavai has said his judgement on bulldozer action gave him "immense satisfaction" as it dealt with "human problems".

The Congress' top brass met here on Wednesday, for the party's first working committee meeting in Bihar in the post-Independence era, to deliberate on the assembly polls strategy and ramp up its attack against the BJP over alleged "vote chori".

Delhi Police has booked a self-styled godman, Swami Chaitanyananda Saraswati alias Parth Sarthy, after several female students of a management institute here accused him of sexual harassment.