In a long Twitter thread countering Jairam Ramesh's 'historical lie', Union minister Kiren Rijiju said in 1947 Nehru rejected Maharaja Hari Singh's request for accession.

Telangana capital Hyderabad – like the rest of the country – has been witnessing heavy rain for the past few days, which has disrupted normal life.

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The fourth annual auction of mementos presented to Prime Minister Narendra Modi concluded on Wednesday. A badminton racquet signed by Thomas Cup winner K. Srikanth received the highest bid this year — ₹51 lakh — according to the auction website.

Army assault dog Zoom, who was injured during an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Monday, is in a stable condition but the next 24-48 hours are crucial to decide the further line of treatment, senior army officers said on Wednesday.

The report of the parliamentary committee on official languages that has created a political controversy over fears of Hindi imposition, does not actually impose the language on non-Hindi speaking regions, and is in keeping with the tenets laid down by the New Education Policy, according to two lawmakers in the committee.

The halting of drugs manufacturing was directed through a joint order issued by the central and state drugs regulators. HT has seen a copy of the order.

Sitharaman added that the momentum that the Indian economy has got emerging from the pandemic, and the momentum that it will have over the next year that has been acknowledged even by multilateral institutions, cannot be “weakened”.

A bench, headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Uday Umesh Lalit, ordered that no citizen can be prosecuted under Section 66A, which authorised the police to arrest people for social media posts construed “offensive” or “menacing” until it was quashed by the top court in 2015 for being “unconstitutionally vague” and arbitrary.