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Urging for quick disposal of rape cases, Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Sunday said he would write to all chief ministers and chief justices of the high courts to complete investigation in cases of rape and those registered under the POCSO Act in two months.

In recognition of Air Chief Marshal (retd) BS Dhanoa's unrelenting backing for the Rafale deal, the Indian Air Force has decided to put tail numbers in 30 Rafale jets with ''BS'' initials.

India is duty-bound to give citizenship to persecuted minorities from neighbouring countries as they are "victims" of the decision to divide the country on religious lines, BJP general secretary Ram Madhav has said while defending the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill.

The police have submitted a supplementary charge sheet in a Birbhum district court in the politically significant Labhpur triple murder case of 2010. The names of BJP leader Mukul Roy and rebel TMC MLA Manirul Islam have been mentioned, among others, as accused.

Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari hit out at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday saying he has shown his "in-sensitiveness" by attending a programme for inauguration of a sewer line project in Timarpur on a day 43 lives were lost in a fire incident in the city.

Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said India never provoked any nation, but, if incited, it would not spare anyone. Addressing a poll meeting, he asserted that the measures taken by the Narendra Modi-led government to curb terrorism have cemented India's reputation as one of the strongest nations in the world.

BJP Rajya Sabha member and former Shiv Sena leader Narayan Rane on Sunday termed the Uddhav Thackeray-led government in Maharashtra as a "temporary" one, only issuing "stay orders".

Union Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said the central government has resolved to amend the Indian Penal and the code of Code of Criminal Procedure to make them more conducive for the country, amid the debate on delay in criminal justice delivery system, especially in heinous crimes like rape.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today paid a visit to former Union Minister Arun Shourie at Pune's Ruby Hall Clinic, where he was admitted after suffering a head injury early last week.

Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar, who was admitted to hospital three weeks ago after being diagnosed with pneumonia, returned home on Sunday.

8-year-old Licypriya Kangujam's plea for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, "Please pass the Climate Change law in the ongoing winter parliament session."

As a massive fire engulfed a Delhi factory early on Sunday, leaving no room for the sleeping workers to escape, a 30-year-old worker from Uttar Pradesh made his last phone call to his brother, requesting him to "take care of things at home".

Amruta Fadnavis, wife of former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, on Sunday called the ruling Shiv Sena a "hypocrite" after media reports emerged that a memorial for the party patriarch late Bal Thackeray in Aurangabad would require felling of some 1,000 trees.

Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad will introduce the Constitution (126th Amendment Bill) 2019, in the Lok Sabha that provides to further amend Article 334 of the Constitution.

Most of the 43 labourers who died in the fire that broke out this morning in a factory in a congested central Delhi neighbourhood died of asphyxiation, emergency services personnel have said