The FIR, which names Shyam Benegal, Adoor Gopalkrishnan, Ramachandra Guha, Mani Ratnam, Shubha Mudgal, Aparna Sen, Konkana Sen and Anurag Kashyap among the 49, was filed on orders from a Muzaffarpur court in response to a complaint.

The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (MMRCL) has said only 2 per cent of Aarey land is going to be used for the project.

The duo was called in for questioning Thursday morning by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Mumbai Police. They were arrested late in the afternoon after police said they “did not cooperate with the probe”.

Appearing for Navlakha, senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi said the three-week protection from arrest granted to him by the High Court would expire Friday. Taking note, the bench assured him that the matter will be heard Friday.

Apart from meeting Manmohan Singh, Amarinder Thursday also called upon President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to formally invite them to events being organised by his government to mark the occasion. The invites have been accepted, the CMO said.

Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka has drawn the attention of Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar in a letter and accused Haryana Shahari Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP, earlier HUDA) and the concessionaire companies of indulging in “shadow boxing”.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is in Delhi to attend the India Economic Summit of the World Economic Forum and is scheduled to meet Modi on Saturday for a bilateral meeting.

The CBI investigating officer of the case has prepared a report exonerating Asthana in the case and submitted to his superiors, sources have told The Indian Express.

During his two-day visit beginning Tuesday, Doval met Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) to enlist Riyadh’s support. The FATF plenary session and working group meetings are scheduled to be held from October 13 to 18.

To gradually cut availability and consumption, liquor shops will stay open from 10 am to 9 pm and later reduced to just 3-4 hours a day.

The Minister, however, did not specify when the ban would come into force. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had first called for a ban on single-use plastic during his Independence Day speech this year.

The Nizam’s descendants, Prince Mukarram Jah, the titular eighth Nizam of Hyderabad, and his younger brother Muffakham Jah, had joined hands with the Indian government in the legal battle against the Pakistan government over some 35 million pounds lying with the National Westminster Bank in London.

The growth in external debt over the last one year is the highest seen in the last five years since the 11.8 per cent growth recorded in June 2014.

The directive has been issued by the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) to chief secretaries in 11 Ganga basin states. “No idol immersion into river Ganga and its tributaries and on their banks,” says the directive, which was issued after a meeting between representatives of states and NMCG officials last month.

Addressing a Swachh Bharat Diwas programme in Ahmedabad to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, Modi said that the Mahatma was not an icon of just the Indian Independence movement but also cleanliness. The event was attended by around 20,000 village heads, including 10,000 from Gujarat.

A Dalit married to a Jat businessman from Khedar village, Asha (36) is the BJP candidate from Uklana, a reserved constituency in Hisar. “In the last 13 years since my marriage, I have never gone to my sasural (home of her in-laws) without a purdah as I was a bahu (daughter-in-law)... the villagers mind these things,” she says.

Apart from the ethnic wear shop, the trust, over the years, started the Karma Cafe and Satya to be relevant to the contemporary times.

Sidhu was leading the team to arrest the men, believed to be five in number, in connection with STF’s recovery of a cache of arms from the Indo-Pak border in Punjab on September 24.

Police said Tuesday that the directive was a “routine” exercise and “does not mention the NRC”.

A scrutiny of district court records by The Indian Express found that at least 53 people booked on charges of cow slaughter, or intent to slaughter cows under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, in 16 cases have been acquitted since 2018.

While Maruti Suzuki reported a 27% drop in domestic car sales at 1.1 lakh units, Bajaj Auto saw a 35% drop in motorcycles at 1.77 lakh units.

The affidavit was filed before a three-judge Bench hearing a plea by Anuradha Bhasin, Executive Editor of Kashmir Times, among others, against the communication curbs.

Addressing BJP workers at the Netaji Indoor Stadium in Kolkata, Shah said “ Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist and Christian” refugees will not be forced to leave India.

Allowing the intervention application filed by 11 journalists, including from The Indian Express, Special Judge V S Padalkar said that conducting the trial in a “transparent manner” is among the reasons for rejecting the NIA’s plea.