The only minister in Narendra Modi government from Rajasthan, Nihalchand Meghwal has been issued notice by a court in Jaipur in connection with a four-year-old rape case.
Official celebrations in most states were restricted to unfurling of the national flag and chief ministers and governors addressing the people, with fewer guests in attendance.
The studio said it would soon announce the new release date for the film.
As the China factor enters the body politic of India with greater potency, its consequences will certainly be far-reaching, note Harsh V Pant and Vinay Kaura.
'An individual cannot fight the might of the State.'
While Congress leader Sam Pitroda says it was Priyanka's own decision, party spokesperson Rajiv Shukla says it was Rahul's call.
Dausa Member of Parliament Kirori Lal Meena, who was on a dharna in Jaipur seeking justice for a tribal woman allegedly raped by an Indian Police Service officer about 13 years ago, was arrested along with 13 others in the wee hours of Wednesday.
The Delhi Police on Friday filed a charge sheet in a court against suspected top Indian Mujahideen operatives Tehsin Akhtar, Zia-Ur-Rahman and three others for allegedly setting up an illegal arms factory in the national capital from where a huge quantity of arms and ammunition were recovered.
Baaghi 3 is a senseless beast of a movie that solely exists to rupture the screen in images of broken, blasting, blaring men or machines flying mid-air and slow motion, feels Sukanya Verma.
An instagramming couple has taken the best ever photos from around the world
The vehicle can attain a maximum speed limit of 25 km per hour and is the first of its kind in the small variants of bullet proof vehicles.
Celebration of Holi at Mathura, Vrindavan and Barsana in Uttar Pradesh is world famous and it attracts tourists from across the globe.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday arrested a suspected Delhi-based bookie after launching searches in multiple cities.
Dausa MP Kirori Lal Meena, arrested while on a dharna to seek justice for a rape victim, has been released but his minister wife claimed he did not reach home. "Police said my husband was released from Ajmer jail in the wee hours on Thursday, but he did not reach home. So, I along with my family members went to the jail to enquire his whereabouts," Golma Devi told PTI.
Shops, schools and other commercial establishments were closed in parts of Bihar, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab but the shutdown call by anti-reservation bodies had little impact elsewhere in the country.
A Jaipur had on Monday ordered the police to register a complaint by the victim's father and brother.
Senior Indian Administrative Services officer Ashok Singhvi, who is the Principal Secretary (Mines) in Rajasthan, was arrested in the wee hours of Thursday by the state Anti Corruption Bureau in the eighth arrest in a bribery case involving clearance for reopening of six closed mines of a miner.
Residents in the vicinity alleged over-exploitation of groundwater.
Hundreds of villagers turned up at the Bavari helipad to catch a glimpse of the Congress leader, who is on a one-day visit to the desert state.
A total 95 deaths deaths were reported since Friday morning, of which 37 in Maharashtra, 24 in Gujarat, nine in West Bengal, seven in Madhya Pradesh, four each from Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, three from Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu and two from Delhi and one each from Punjab and Haryana.
While Maharashtra and Gujarat continue to top the nationwide tally, Tamil Nadu has now crossed the 5,000 mark. The death toll of the southern state has reached 37, with two more women succumbing to COVID-19 during the day.
'China is constantly probing India's weaknesses.' 'The challenge is to implement a strategy that will allow India to buy time, gather its strength, and eventually counter China,' recommends Harsh V Pant and Vinay Kaura.
The home ministry said the West Bengal government is not cooperating with the central teams visiting the state to assess the ground situation and are specifically restraining them from interacting with health workers and touring the affected areas.
Veteran Congress leader Digvijaya Singh and Bharatiya Janata Party candidates Jyotiraditya Scindia and Sumer Singh Solanki on Friday won Rajya Sabha election from Madhya Pradesh.
Here's a recap of events that occurred in India in the past 24 hours.
As with the Spanish flu, the world must be ready for a second and third wave as this start-stop-start-stop response plays out, recommends Rahul Jacob.
"The review should be coordinated federally. It should be wide ranging and robust. If we are to prevent another Mumbai, this time no stone should be left unturned," leading UK terrorism barrister Tanveer Qureshi told media persons in London on Wednesday night.
The accident occurred when the car, in which Abrar Ahmed was travelling from Jaipur to Jhalawar, collided head on with a truck.
Property and goods worth crores of rupees have been destroyed by the fire.
'When a Kashmiri extremist attacks a soldier, it is wrong to call it a terrorist attack.'
Board of Control for Cricket in India N Srinivasan and his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan appeared before the Justice Mudgal Committee in connection with the probe into the IPL spot-fixing and betting scandal, in Chennai.
Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, whose wife Sunanda Pushkar was found dead on Friday night, was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences after he suffered a "cardiac condition" in the wee hours on Saturday.
Here are 5 BJP MPs who have taken up cudgels against their party leadership for its handling of Dalit issues.
Riazuddin Nasir, the man arrested in Karnataka earlier this year is back in the limelight once again with the Gujarat police obtaining a body warrant against him in order to interrogate him. They hope to find the answers from Nasir, who is the only person so far in the SIMI network to have told the police about the entire operation.
The accused has no political affiliation, initial probe suggests.
He was a member of Azamgarh (Sanjarmur) module of the IM and was based in Nepal where he was teaching at a school.
What the terrorists have failed to achieve so far in other parts of India through their repeated acts of terrorism, the Government of India and the Bharatiya Janata Party have achieved for them in Jammu and Kashmir -- the government through its shockingly ham-handed handling of a sensitive issue and the BJP by its cynical exploitation of the communal tensions arising from the government's mishandling
"I am being targeted for a decade-old case, there is an attempt to suppress my voice. Rajasthan Police team came to arrest me. Someone told me plan was being made to kill me in an encounter," the VHP president claimed.
Following is a chronology of some recent major bomb blasts in the country:
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