Breaking news updates: Union home minister Amit Shah to visit Bihar today

Nirmala Sitharaman on India-US ties: ‘Can choose a friend, not neighbour…’

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who has been in the United States, spoke on India’s purchase of oil and weapons from Russia amid the Ukraine war. 

3 workers die while cleaning sewage tank in Madurai; probe on

Woman raped in Andhra hospital; cops suspended

At Kalahandi’s police campus, a rare wedding of two former Maoists

Kalamdei Majhi, 25, had always been a reluctant Maoist. But Kesab Veladi, who joined Maoists when he was in his teens, had been a hardcore Maoist and had been in the personal security team of a Maoist central committee member

5 of family held for trying to ‘convert’ tribals in Gujarat: Cops

Rakesh Vasava, his wife Rekha, sons Yohan, Yakub and Rasin, residents of Vyara town, were booked under IPC sections 342 (illegal confinement), 417 (punishment for cheating), 120b (criminal conspiracy) and under relevant provisions of the Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act, 2003, police said.

Ban halal certified products across India, says petition in Supreme Court

The petition said ‘halal’ certification was first introduced in 1974 for slaughtered meat but after 1993, was expanded to cover other products also

K-Rail protest: Kerala Govt caves in, to organise debates

Opposition Congress and BJP welcomed the initiative but they said people who have been affected by the project should have been called first

Students skipping exam ‘stray incident’: CM

Basavaraj Bommai termed as stray incident two students not appearing for the second PUC (class 12) exam after being denied permission to enter the examination hall as they were wearing hijabs.

Amid power cuts, Stalin urges PM Modi to ensure 72,000 MT coal supply daily

The current daily receipt of coal for Tamil Nadu’s units is only 50,000 MTs, against the coal requirement of 72,000 MTs.

Minor raped in West Bengal, BJP worker among 4 arrested: Police

The survivor’s family said the incident took place when accused, Basudeb Biswas, who is believed to be an old acquaintance of a local BJP worker, came to the latter’s residence with his minor relative, a local police officer said on condition of anonymity.

CM proposes peace meetings amid rising communal tensions

Aiming to resolve the contentious issues “harmoniously”, the chief minister (CM) Basavaraj Bommai on Friday said that peace meetings among members of different communities would be held at the police station level to resolve such matters

Only 1/3rd diabetics have blood sugar under control: Lancet study

The findings, comprising a vast sample size of 113,043 people, illustrates the scale of what are considered as non-communicable disease, which now have a growing disease burden and have been linked to unhealthy lifestyles among other factors.