Mumbai: A court in Maharashtra's Nashik city on Thursday granted bail to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a defamation case filed against him for remarks about Hindutva ideologue and freedom fighter V D Savarkar during the Bharat Jodo Yatra in 2022.

New Delhi: The Union government has "no current plan or intention" to reconsider or remove the words 'socialism' and 'secularism' from the Preamble of the Constitution inserted during the Emergency period, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday.

The Congress has "concrete 100 per cent proof" that the Election Commission allowed cheating in a constituency in Karnataka, Rahul Gandhi claimed on Thursday and warned the poll panel that it will not get away with this "because we are going to come for you".

About 37.07 per cent of children under five registered on the Poshan Tracker were found to be stunted, 15.93 per cent under weight and 5.46 per cent wasted, according to official data.

India has resumed issuing tourist visas to Chinese nationals, ending a five-year freeze triggered first by the Covid-19 pandemic and later prolonged by the deadly Galwan Valley clash in June 2020. The decision, however, was made public not through Indian government channels, but via a low-key announcement by the Indian embassy in China, exclusively in Mandarin, on the Chinese microblogging site Weibo.

The Supreme Court has slammed Karnataka High Court for the manner in which it handled the Renukaswamy murder case against film actor Darshan, including granting him bail.

The Congress, which has been questioning the sudden resignation of Jagdeep Dhankhar, has sought a "farewell function" for the former vice president, a demand which has found no takers in the government.

The Tamil Nadu government has once again asserted its firm opposition to the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, reiterating that it will not implement the policy under any circumstances, even if it means losing central funding under key education schemes.