New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a fresh plea of Vodafone Idea seeking waiver of around Rs 30,000 crore adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues.

Bijapur (Chhattisgarh), May 15 (PTI): Rolo, a two-year-old female sniffer dog of the CRPF, was the only casualty suffered by the security forces during their biggest anti-Naxal operation at the Korgotalu hills as the four-legged soldier was attacked and stung around 200 times by a swarm of bees.

In a political shift, Mayana Zakia Khanam, the first Muslim woman member of the Andhra Legislative Council, has resigned from the Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy-led YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Twenty young Polish nationals, descendants of Polish children who were sheltered in India during World War II, visited Balachadi in Jamnagar and Valivade near Kolhapur under the Jamsaheb Memorial Youth Exchange Programme this February. The initiative was facilitated by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India, following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s official visit to Poland last year.

The Allahabad High Court ruled that a Muslim man can marry more than once if he respects all of his wives equally and follows the standards outlined in Islamic law. The court, however, emphasized that the opportunity for polygamy is frequently abused by men for selfish purposes.

A woman from the Maninagar area of Ahmedabad was hospitalised after she reportedly discovered a lizard’s tail in a Havmor ice cream cone she was consuming. According to reports, the incident took place after the woman bought an 80 ml Havmor Happy Cone at an ice cream shop at Mahalakshmi Corner on Dev Kutir Avenue. While consuming the ice cream, the woman experienced discomfort and began vomiting. Upon inspection the customers found a lizard’s tail in the ice cream and the woman was hospitalised.

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Centre to set up on "top priority basis" dedicated POCSO courts to exclusively deal with cases of sexual offences against children.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had agreed to hold a caste census "out of fear" of the country's deprived population, to which the opposition was lending its voice.