Edited By Divyanshu Dutta Roy

A 66-year-old man died on Friday at a protest by farmers affected by the land acquisition for the new capital city of Chhattisgarh, officials said. The cause of the death of farmer Siyaram Patel, however, was not yet clear, they added.

A man in Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa district has been charged for allegedly setting three houses - two belonging to Muslim men and one Hindu family - on fire and vandalising a temple on the same day.

Politicians and the media have no right to criticise a police investigation report that exonerated policemen involved in last month's controversial encounter in Srinagar, the Jammu and Kashmir Police said on Friday.

A Parliamentary Committee on External Affairs has submitted its report where it has expressed concern "with the delays in extradition of fugitives" and said the "process should be expedited in each case".

Aryan Khan's WhatsApp chats appeared to reveal that he regularly indulged in "illicit drug activities", a special court in Mumbai said on Wednesday, as it turned down the bail application filed by the son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan in the

Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu met party leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday and withdrew his exit notice, a day after signalling an apparent climbdown. "I shared all my concerns with Rahul Gandhi. Everything has been sorted out," he said.

Ashish Mishra, the son of junior Union Home Minister Ajay Mishra who was arrested on Saturday, was not able to answer several questions about his whereabouts during last week's violence in Lakhimpur Kheri, sources in the Uttar Pradesh Police said.

NGOs and social groups working for women's rights and against child marriage have communicated their concerns to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot over a bill that allegedly legitimises child marriages.

Facebook enforces its policies in a non-partisan, objective manner, the chief of the company's India operations told NDTV on Friday, rejecting reports that had said a top executive had vetoed action against a leader of the ruling BJP responsible for

A scandal involving the NEET medical entrance examinations that saw an attempt to use proxies to clear the test and payments of Rs 50 lakh per candidate has been unearthed, CBI sources said on Wednesday, amid an uproar over suicides by students crush

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Friday suggested the central government had not held enough consultations with states on the plan to raise money using the country's infrastructure assets, as he urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to reconsider

A 20-year-old Afghan student who made it to the last flight that Air India flew from Kabul on Sunday told NDTV that he considered himself "very lucky" to have made it to the aircraft just as the Taliban took the country's capital.

Amazon's challenge against Future Group's $3.4 billion deal with Reliance Industries will see a Supreme Court ruling today, concluding one of the most bitterly fought battles in the world's only billion-plus retail market open to foreign competition.

France's national cyber-security agency ANSSI has confirmed the presence of Pegasus spyware on the phones of two journalists from the country's online investigative journal Mediapart, the publication reported on Thursday.

RT-PCR tests - widely believed to be the most accurate method to detect COVID-19 - will be cut to 40 per cent of total tests by the end of next month, far from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's plan to raise it to 70 per cent, the government announced o

A 66-year-old man died on Friday at a protest by farmers affected by the land acquisition for the new capital city of Chhattisgarh, officials said. The cause of the death of farmer Siyaram Patel, however, was not yet clear, they added.

A man in Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa district has been charged for allegedly setting three houses - two belonging to Muslim men and one Hindu family - on fire and vandalising a temple on the same day.

Politicians and the media have no right to criticise a police investigation report that exonerated policemen involved in last month's controversial encounter in Srinagar, the Jammu and Kashmir Police said on Friday.

A Parliamentary Committee on External Affairs has submitted its report where it has expressed concern "with the delays in extradition of fugitives" and said the "process should be expedited in each case".

Aryan Khan's WhatsApp chats appeared to reveal that he regularly indulged in "illicit drug activities", a special court in Mumbai said on Wednesday, as it turned down the bail application filed by the son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan in the

Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu met party leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday and withdrew his exit notice, a day after signalling an apparent climbdown. "I shared all my concerns with Rahul Gandhi. Everything has been sorted out," he said.

Ashish Mishra, the son of junior Union Home Minister Ajay Mishra who was arrested on Saturday, was not able to answer several questions about his whereabouts during last week's violence in Lakhimpur Kheri, sources in the Uttar Pradesh Police said.

NGOs and social groups working for women's rights and against child marriage have communicated their concerns to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot over a bill that allegedly legitimises child marriages.

Facebook enforces its policies in a non-partisan, objective manner, the chief of the company's India operations told NDTV on Friday, rejecting reports that had said a top executive had vetoed action against a leader of the ruling BJP responsible for

A scandal involving the NEET medical entrance examinations that saw an attempt to use proxies to clear the test and payments of Rs 50 lakh per candidate has been unearthed, CBI sources said on Wednesday, amid an uproar over suicides by students crush

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Friday suggested the central government had not held enough consultations with states on the plan to raise money using the country's infrastructure assets, as he urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to reconsider

A 20-year-old Afghan student who made it to the last flight that Air India flew from Kabul on Sunday told NDTV that he considered himself "very lucky" to have made it to the aircraft just as the Taliban took the country's capital.

Amazon's challenge against Future Group's $3.4 billion deal with Reliance Industries will see a Supreme Court ruling today, concluding one of the most bitterly fought battles in the world's only billion-plus retail market open to foreign competition.

France's national cyber-security agency ANSSI has confirmed the presence of Pegasus spyware on the phones of two journalists from the country's online investigative journal Mediapart, the publication reported on Thursday.

RT-PCR tests - widely believed to be the most accurate method to detect COVID-19 - will be cut to 40 per cent of total tests by the end of next month, far from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's plan to raise it to 70 per cent, the government announced o