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The Delhi Police have arrested a 37-year-old man who used to pose as a female model by creating a fake account on social media and collect nude photos of women on the pretext of giving them a chance to audition for a web series, officials said on Monday.

The Yamuna Expressway authority has sent a proposal to the Uttar Pradesh government for setting up a film city in Gautam Buddh Nagar, officials said on Monday.

The government has no data on farmers suicide as many states do not submit figures to the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB), the Rajya Sabha was told in a written reply today.

Eight bills were passed in 90 minutes by the Madhya Pradesh Assembly today, which held a one-day session amid the Covid pandemic, for which 78 MLAs were present in the House and 23 attended via video conference - a first for the state

Politicians and farm leaders of Punjab and Haryana have unanimously rejected the hike in Minimum Support Price of rabi crops announced ahead of schedule by the Centre today amid a huge unrest over the proposed farm laws.

On Sunday afternoon, amid scenes of chaos and uproar, the Rajya Sabha passed two of a set of three controversial bills related to India's agriculture sector. The bills, which replace ordinances issued in June, were passed amid fierce protests by farmers' groups - particularly in the grain bowl states of Haryana and Punjab. The Narendra Modi government has said the farm bills, as they have come to be known, empower small and marginal farmers by allowing them access to markets and prices of their choosing. The opposition, which includes political parties and lakhs of farmers, disagrees - they say the bills threaten to abolish MSPs (minimum support prices) and, consequently, leave the same small and marginal farmers at the mercy of corporates and large-scale institutional buyers. As for the farmers themselves, some of those who spoke to NDTV say they are confused and want the government to reach out and offer clarifications.

Student activist Gulfisha Fatima, arrested under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), alleged before a Delhi court on Monday that she was being subjected to communal slurs and mental harassment by jail authorities.

Former telecom minister A Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi, Swan Telecom promoter Shahid Balwa and others opposed on Monday the CBI and Enforcement Directorate pleas seeking early hearing of the probe agencies' appeals challenging the acquittal of individuals and firms in the 2G spectrum allocation scam cases.

Condemning the BJP for 'Black Sunday' when it "forcibly" passed the controversial farm bills, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today announced Trinamool Congress will take to the streets from Tuesday on the issue.

Over 1,300 posts are lying vacant in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against its total sanctioned strength of 7,273, the government told Parliament on Monday.

In a letter to a group of UN human rights experts, paediatrician Kafeel Khan has alleged that he was "tortured" in the Mathura jail, where he was lodged after being charged under the National Security Act (NSA) for allegedly delivering provocative speeches in Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) during the anti-CAA stir in December 2019.

Kwality Limited, one of the country's most popular dairy product makers, has been charged with cheating a group of banks of Rs 1,400 crore in a case of fraud filed by the CBI. The investigating agency filed the case after searches at eight locations including Delhi today.

World Rose Day: Rose Day is observed in the memory of Melinda Rose from Canada who was diagnosed with Askin's Tumour, a rare form of blood cancer, when she was 12. Melinda Rose touched the lives of many. She wrote verses, little notes and e-mails to cancer patients giving hope. Spreading cheer and hope had become her life's mission. On World Rose Day, it is important that we take time out and spend with cancer patients.

Eighteen opposition parties wrote to the President today on what they called "absolute and total murder of democracy" in parliament in the way the government's farm bills were passed on Sunday and urged him not to sign them.

On Monday, the family of an 87-year-old man, who died at Indore's Unique Hospital after being infected with Covid virus, alleged negligence after his body was handed over with apparent signs of a rat attack