A source in the government said: "The entire issue was a bureaucratic mess up which led to massive protests. It has been rectified."

Section 122 of the Evidence Act recognises that all communications between spouses during the wedlock are sacrosanct and “they should be held privileged”.

While the opposition BJP has accused the Congress of doing 'politics of appeasement', the Congress has hit back, accusing the saffron party of ‘spreading poison’ among children by terming the battle as a Hindu-Muslim battle.

Police are cheking CCTV footage for more clues. In the call, the accused allegedly threatened that he will kill Baid if he is not given Rs 25 lakh in ransom.

A senior TMC leader said around 100 party rebels have refused to withdraw their nominations. TMC sources said most rebels are from Bankura district.

She alleged that on Wednesday night, 10-12 youths arrived at her cafe at south Kolkata’s Jodhpur Park all of a sudden and attacked her.

The fresh cases was 28 more than Wednesday’s count, the bulletin stated, adding that the state also reported 15 new fatalities on Thursday pushing its toll so far to 21,094.

The BJP attributed the twin killings to factionalism in the Trinamool Congress. However, the ruling party dismissed the claim as ‘baseless’.

On October 3 last year, a convoy of vehicles, including one owned by the Union minister, ran over a group of protesting farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri. Four farmers and a journalist were killed and several others were injured.

Asked whether they plan to increase the rates before April, Hardikar said, "We are getting different proposals on this count...A decision will be taken before the new financial year starts. As of now, I can't say whether we plan to increase the rates or not."

India’s laws do not allow commercial planting of non-approved GM variants although farmers say such variants have several advantages over the normal commercially available variants.

Police said on January 30, Akash had left home to go to Chalisgaon. Jyoti and Soni accompanied him till the Dehugaon entrance. From here, the other four accused took Akash in a four-wheeler to another location, where they allegedly attacked him with a heavy object and killed him.

The accident had led to the death of five labourers while five others were injured. All the victims were migrant labourers from Bihar.

An FIR in the case was registered at the Wakad police station under Pimpri-Chinchwad jurisdiction on Wednesday.

Police said that on February 10, gold ornaments were stolen from an apartment in Hadapsar when the family had gone to visit a temple.

A statement by the public prosecutor said, “The victim girl’s mother turned hostile and gave contradictory statements before the court. But the victim girl narrated the incident in detail to the court. Also, the medical report was crucial evidence in this case.”

Animal husbandry commissioner says arrangements for culling 23,800 birds have been made as per protocol and efforts are on to understand the virus’s transmission route.

The facility is part of UT’s new excise policy for 2022-23

In January, 21 deaths were recorded in Panchkula while 11 deaths have been reported in February

Police said that the incident took place around 9pm near Parwala village, which comes under the jurisdiction of Raipur Rani police station, and identified the victim as one Jasbir Singh. Jasbir was a resident of Ganeshpur village, Barwala.

Police said that the accused, Shrikrishna, had befriended the daughter of the complainant, Gurleen Kaur, on Instagram with a fake identity of Edwina Gomes.

'We have requested the government to suitable allocation to upgrade and create the skill development infrastructure. An analysis to know demand and availability of skilled workers was conducted in 2012 which now needs to be updated to identify current demand and supply gaps.'

The accused claimed knowing several Punjabi financiers in the film industry and promised the complainant to his investment

The week-long programme started February 8 with a national level webinar on the issue of Investigation of crime against Women and Children and Forensic Examination of Sexual Assault and POCSO cases.