The tweet comes a week after Johar, responding to the ongoing NCB probe, said he had never consumed narcotic drugs nor promoted them, and that he did not know either of the two persons.

A government spokesperson said polygraph and narco tests would be conducted on the accused, the victim’s relatives and even police officers involved in the probe.

The Indian Express visited the families of five of the 12 political workers killed over the past few months — two each in the Hooghly and South 24-Parganas districts, and one in Paschim Medinipur. In each of these places, the BJP is on the ascendant and poses a powerful challenge to the Trinamool.

A video to create awareness on the behaviour and habitat of the beast has been created by the Gujarat forest department, signing off with a message by Amitabh Bachchan.

India has of late been contributing between 15 per cent and 25 per cent of global deaths daily. Between 4,000 and 6,000 people have been dying every day; and India has been reporting more than 1,000 daily deaths for over a month now.

The Opposition, particularly the Congress, has been accused of not being visible on the ground. Many in the Congress too have been arguing that it is high time the leadership “came out of the Twitter world” and hit the streets.

Advisors urged fiscal push in form of wage subsidy, rural infrastructure

The first survey had found 57 per cent of people surveyed in slums and 16 per cent in non-slum areas having antibodies against the virus. The second survey found a rise in the level of antibodies in non-slums, but a fall in slums.

Bench wants victim’s family to appear so it can hear their version

The Hyderabad home of computer engineer Avanti may be a world away from Hathras in UP — roiled by a Dalit girl's assault and murder allegedly by upper-caste men — but that evening, the distance seemed to disappear.

The 19-year-old had been admitted to hospital in an unconscious state on September 14. She had regained consciousness on September 22 and recorded a statement before a magistrate saying she had been raped.

The government had announced 5 kg of wheat per person and 1 kg of gram per family under NFSA as pandemic relief every month until November.

The rise, however, also partly reflected the impact of a low base effect from September 2019, when GST revenues had contracted 2.7 per cent to fall to a 19-month low of Rs 91,916 crore — the second instance since the July 2017 rollout of the indirect tax regime.

However, while the private schools have expressed their consent to the move, a few parents’ associations are opposing the state government’s 25 per cent decline in fee since they were demanding for a 50 per cent fee cut.

Despite the Supreme Court calling the demolition an “egregious violation of rule of law,” Wednesday’s Babri Masjid demolition verdict gives an institutional sheen to the temple movement.

More than two years before this order, the bench of Justices Pinaki Chandra Ghose and Rohinton F Nariman, on April 19, 2017, described the demolition of the Babri Masjid as “crimes which shake the secular fabric of the Constitution of India”.

The Liberhan Commission, set up in 1992 to probe the Babri Masjid demolition, had, in its report submitted in 2009, pointed to the involvement of senior RSS and BJP leaders, including L K Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti.

The Board said in a statement issued by its general secretary Syed Mohammad Wali Rahmani that the verdict was “neither based on evidence and nor in accordance with the law”. “To uphold the rule of law, we urge the CBI to file an appeal,” it said.

The order said there was no evidence that the accused had met “inside a room” to plan the razing of the mosque.

The police claimed Patel was approached by co-accused Mohammed Anis, who prepared fake documents for him stating that he is a central government employee.

Saying that they were “opposing just for the sake of opposing”, Modi said “people who oppose and protest are becoming increasingly irrelevant for the country and society”.

On Tuesday morning, the 19-year-old Dalit woman who had been assaulted and allegedly gangraped by four upper-caste men in Hathras district, Uttar Pradesh, on September 14, died at Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital.

Untenable, says India, Beijing not interested in clarifying LAC; China opposes border infra-construction by India

The priority, the sources said, will be vetting documents and agreements of companies in the information technology and finance sector. The scope of the probe will, however, be expanded in time to cover other strategic and non-strategic sectors.