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A Special Investigation Team asked by the Supreme Court to probe accusations of rape and blackmail against BJP leader and former union minister Chinmayanand on Wednesday said it will not be swayed by questions raised in the media or accusations of trying to shield the influential Uttar Pradesh politician.

A special court on Wednesday issued a fresh non-bailable warrant (NBW) against fugitive Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, currently in Malaysia, in the 2016 alleged money laundering case.

Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday said the amended Motor Vehicle Act (MVA) has the support of almost all states even as Gujarat and Uttarakhand tweaked rules to lower hefty fines.

Mahatma Gandhi is 'set to return to life' in the form of a hologram at UNESCO Paris to mark the International Day of Non Violence 2019. The life size 3D hologram will "address audience" to explain the Mahatma's philosophy in a life-like audio visual medium.

India is open to selling a partial stake in debt-laden state-run carrier Air India to a foreign airline, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

Alleging that the ruling BJP was spreading "anarchy" in the name of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), Aam Aadmi Party lawmaker Sanjay Singh on Wednesday said if it was implemented in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath would have to go to Uttarakhand.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved a first-of-its-kind project under which the history of the country's borders will be written, the Defence Ministry said on Wednesday.

Bihar minister Nityanand Rai said he will bear expenses of 25 differently-abled children's education himself.

As many as 90 women from various parts of India have alleged physical and sexual abuse at the hands of their Saudi Arabian employers leading police to arrest a Mumbai-based labour supplying agent after a two-year-long investigation, an official said on Wednesday.

The Congress in an attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that the eagerness to fill Sardar Sarovar dam on the occasion of his birthday had created problems for "thousands of people" in Madhya Pradesh.

Amid a huge backlash over his comments on Hindi as a "unifying language", Home Minister Amit Shah said today that he had never asked for the imposition of Hindi over regional languages and added, "If some people want to do politics, it is their choice."

The National Commission for Women (NCW) today sought stern action from Assam Police against officials who allegedly stripped and beat three sisters at a police outpost.

Asserting that development should not be at the cost of citizens and environment, Yuva Sena chief Aaditya Thackeray has said his party opposed the Nanar refinery project in Maharashtra as "sons of the soil" were against it.

In a partial relief to people, the Gujarat government on Wednesday said the new penalties for traffic offences related to helmet and pollution-under-control (PUC) certificates would come into force from October 15.

The Delhi government was asked by a court to decide within one month on the clearance to prosecute former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar and others in a sedition case.