Jagdish Chandra, a plumber, got to know Geeta when he went to her village in Almora district of Uttarakhand to provide water connections under the Jal Jiwan Mission last year. They quietly got married on August 21. He was killed on Thursday

A statement released by the embassy of Russia quoted its foreign minister Sergey Lavrov as saying that India has publicly rejected any bid to be involved in restrictions on the country's energy purchases. Lavrov also cited his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar in this regard.

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BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari petitioned the Supreme Court in July last year to shift hearing of Mamata Banerjee’s election petition against his election from Nandigram out of the Calcutta high court. The Supreme Court said there was no basis to entertain this petition

CJI UU Lalit said that over the past four days since he took over, the top court has listed matter far excess in number.

The 19-year-old alleged serial killer was arrested on Friday morning after he killed his fifth victim on Thursday night.

Azad resigned from all posts of the party on August 26 citing the “immaturity” of Rahul Gandhi, whom he blamed for “demolishing the consultative mechanism” in the Congress

According to news agency ANI, the 20 leaders who put in their papers on Friday were members of the District Congress Committee, Jammu North region.

The Supreme Court said the matter of interim bail till the high court considers Teesta Setalvad’s bail application is made out as the essential ingredients of investigation and custodial interrogation has been completed