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The Bihar government has decided to bring offensive and defamatory social media posts under the category of cybercrime, a sign that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is rattled by criticism on internet platforms. Having lashed out at such commentary for long, he has now ordered the state police's Economic Offenses Wing, the nodal point for such crimes, to report and act against those make them.

Abhishek Banerjee, nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, has sent a legal notice to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Suvendu Adhikari for making "defamatory statements" against him.

For more than a month now, nearly all residents of two Upper Assam villages - Laika and Dodhia - comprising around 3,000 people have been camping in the state's Tinsukia town, next to the deputy collector's office.

The Congress in Assam on Thursday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi with 24 questions on issues such as enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the governments "failure" to deport Bangladeshis illegally living in the state and "creating hurdles" in development of industry.

The Delhi High Court Thursday refused to stay the release of the film ''The White Tiger'' on OTT platform Netflix on a plea by Hollywood producer John Hart Jr alleging copyright violation.

Factional fights erupted at BJP offices at two different places in West Bengal on Tursday between old BJP workers and those who joined the party from the Trinamool Congress.

The full bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday asked West Bengal Police to execute all pending non-bailable warrants (NBWs) within this month and to contain violence before the announcement of assembly poll dates, an official of the Chief Electoral Officers office said on Thursday.

Anyone who has spent a long time in politics must be wanting to become Chief Minister, Maharashtra minister Jayant Patil has said and added it is natural for him too to feel like occupying the post.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray is set to visit the Serum Institute of India's (SII) Manjari facility on Friday, where a fire incident led to the deaths of five people.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said India remains committed to assisting the people of Nepal in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic.

In a video message from an undisclosed location, two employees of an oil drilling company who were kidnapped in Arunachal Pradesh last month have appealed to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Assam's Sarbananda Sonowal to step up efforts to have them released.

India added 14,545 coronavirus cases today, placing its overall number at 1.06 crore cases, the Health Ministry's data showed. The number of fresh infections reported on Sunday were 4 per cent lower than on Thursday.

The relationship between India and the United States has been further cemented with Kamala Harris as the vice president of the country, the White House has said.

Four persons were arrested for allegedly selling wheat flour in gunny bags bearing Reliance Jio trademark in Surat city of Gujarat, police said on Thursday.

The Russian COVID-19 vaccine "Sputnik V" will cost less than USD 10 (about Rs 730) per shot in India and the price is the same for all countries, Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said on Thursday.