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Gold prices on Tuesday touched a record high of Rs 38,770 per 10 gram in Delhi after gaining Rs 200 on persistent buying from jewellers even as it lost steam overseas, the All India Sarafa Association has said.

Days after Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat called for a debate on reservation in an "atmosphere of harmony", Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today alleged that the BJP government at the centre was throttling "pro-people laws" as part of a campaign against social justice.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the Centre and the Reserve Bank of India as to what steps they intend to take in future to make ATMs, online banking services and currency notes of Rs 50 and lower denominations, more user friendly for the visually impaired.

The NGT Tuesday directed an advocate to approach an oversight committee with his plea seeking action against Essar Power MP Ltd for allegedly damaging crops and environment as fly ash leaked from its power plant in Madhya Pradesh's Singrauli.

Former Union minister P Chidambaram is "dis-entitled" from anticipatory bail in the INX Media case in view of the "magnitude and enormity "of the material produced by the investigating agencies, the Delhi High Court said today. The court, which granted him interim relief last year, also said he has not been cooperating with the investigating agencies.

Prominent members of Kolkata's civil society have spoken up again, condemning the "culture of violence and intolerance" that made film-maker Anurag Kashyap quit the microblogging platform Twitter after allegations of threats to his family.

Heavy monsoons and flooding in Goa have affected the livelihoods of over 6,000 farmers in the state and the consequent losses have been pegged at around Rs 8.92 crore, Deputy Chief Minister Chandrakant Kavlekar said on Tuesday.

A Mumbai court sentenced gangster Chhota Rajan and five others on Tuesday to eight years of rigorous imprisonment in a 2012 attempt-to-murder case lodged against them by a hotelier.

A new survey found that most Indians felt napping at work might improve productivity, adding that a nap room could contribute towards better workflow.

The Madras High Court on Tuesday directed the Tamil Nadu government to file its reply to a plea by Nalini Sriharan, a convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, seeking extension of her ongoing parole by 30 days.

In a clear reference to the Balakot air strikes in Pakistan, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said today that the recent offensive action against terrorists in the neighbourhood spoke volumes about the "reach and lethality" of the Indian armed forces.

An Army man was killed and four others injured as Pakistani troops targeted forward posts and villages along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district on Tuesday, officials said.

Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed, a UN designated Pakistani terrorist whom the US has placed a USD 10 million bounty on, challenged his arrest in the terror financing cases in the Lahore High Court in Pakistan on Tuesday.

MNS chief Raj Thackeray will appear before the Enforcement Directorate or ED in connection with a money laundering probe and has appealed to the party workers not to protest over the issue, a party spokesperson said on Tuesday.

The process of documenting and identifying illegal immigrants in Assam is India's "internal matter", External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said today as he held wide-ranging talks with his Bangladeshi counterpart AK Abdul Momen in Dhaka.