Press Trust Of India

A key aide of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday inveighed against Sahitya Akademi Award winner Daya Prasad Sinha for likening Ashoka the Great to Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb.

"The Defence Research and Development Organisation successfully flight tested the final deliverable configuration of Man-Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile (MPATGM) on January 11," the ministry said.

The Governor had also criticised the language and style of the letter written to him by the Vice Chancellor

The arrests are the result of a state-wide crackdown by the police on anti-social elements, a release by the State Police Media Centre said.

Another official said that the university had already approved going in for CUCET in an earlier Academic Council meeting and will now wait for the guidelines by the Education Ministry and UGC on it. The JNU students' union criticised the discussion on CUCET

A court in Odisha's Kandhamal district on Tuesday sentenced a 25-year-old man to 20 years in prison for raping a five-year-old girl.

A special court in Raipur on Tuesday sentenced a 21-year-old man to 20 years' rigorous imprisonment for abducting and raping a girl.

The national capital recorded a minimum temperature of 6.5 degrees Celsius, a notch below the normal, while the air quality was in the 'poor' category on Tuesday, officials said.

A woman from Ugandawas arrested onTuesday by customs officials at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport in Delhi for allegedly trying to smuggle heroin worth over Rs 7 crore, officials said.

South Africa may have bowled India out for 223 in their first innings but ace speedster Kagiso Rabada on Tuesday said their batters will have to dig deep to win the series-deciding third Test.

Seeking money for construction of a house is a 'dowry demand' which attracts offence under Section 304B of the Indian Penal Code, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday while restoring conviction and sentence of a man and his father in a dowry death case.

Former BJP leader Michael Lobo on Tuesday joined Congress, a day after resigning from the Goa cabinet and quitting the saffron party.

With the arrest of eight people, the Noida Police on Tuesday claimed to have busted a gang of cyber cheats that has duped hundreds of people across the country of crores of rupees in the name of insurance policies.

US Climate Envoy John Kerry is likely to visit the country soon to take forward the India-US Climate Action and Finance Mobilisation Dialogue, officials said on Tuesday.

All seven Indian sailors on board a UAE-flagged cargo vessel that was seized by Houthis off the port of Hodeidah in Yemen are safe and the government is making all efforts to secure their early release, the external affairs ministry said on Tuesday.

A key aide of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday inveighed against Sahitya Akademi Award winner Daya Prasad Sinha for likening Ashoka the Great to Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb.

"The Defence Research and Development Organisation successfully flight tested the final deliverable configuration of Man-Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile (MPATGM) on January 11," the ministry said.

The Governor had also criticised the language and style of the letter written to him by the Vice Chancellor

The arrests are the result of a state-wide crackdown by the police on anti-social elements, a release by the State Police Media Centre said.

Another official said that the university had already approved going in for CUCET in an earlier Academic Council meeting and will now wait for the guidelines by the Education Ministry and UGC on it. The JNU students' union criticised the discussion on CUCET

A court in Odisha's Kandhamal district on Tuesday sentenced a 25-year-old man to 20 years in prison for raping a five-year-old girl.

A special court in Raipur on Tuesday sentenced a 21-year-old man to 20 years' rigorous imprisonment for abducting and raping a girl.

The national capital recorded a minimum temperature of 6.5 degrees Celsius, a notch below the normal, while the air quality was in the 'poor' category on Tuesday, officials said.

A woman from Ugandawas arrested onTuesday by customs officials at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport in Delhi for allegedly trying to smuggle heroin worth over Rs 7 crore, officials said.

South Africa may have bowled India out for 223 in their first innings but ace speedster Kagiso Rabada on Tuesday said their batters will have to dig deep to win the series-deciding third Test.

Seeking money for construction of a house is a 'dowry demand' which attracts offence under Section 304B of the Indian Penal Code, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday while restoring conviction and sentence of a man and his father in a dowry death case.

Former BJP leader Michael Lobo on Tuesday joined Congress, a day after resigning from the Goa cabinet and quitting the saffron party.

With the arrest of eight people, the Noida Police on Tuesday claimed to have busted a gang of cyber cheats that has duped hundreds of people across the country of crores of rupees in the name of insurance policies.

US Climate Envoy John Kerry is likely to visit the country soon to take forward the India-US Climate Action and Finance Mobilisation Dialogue, officials said on Tuesday.

All seven Indian sailors on board a UAE-flagged cargo vessel that was seized by Houthis off the port of Hodeidah in Yemen are safe and the government is making all efforts to secure their early release, the external affairs ministry said on Tuesday.