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A 21-year-old woman in Nanded district, Maharashtra, who married the corpse of her lover, has accused two police officials of abetting his murder. Aanchal Mamidwar claimed that on the day Saksham Tate (20) was killed, her brother Himesh took her to Itwara police station to file a complaint against Saksham. When she refused, she alleged, the officials encouraged Himesh to kill him instead. I only demanded that my father and brothers be punished the same way Saksham died. Now I have married him an

SRINAGAR: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday arrested an accused carrying Rs 10 lakhs bounty for his involvement in the 1989 abduction of Rubiya Sayeed, the daughter of then Home Minister Mufti Sayeed, after 36 years in Srinagar. The accused, identified as Shafat Ahmed Shangloo, was arrested by the CBI officials from the Nishat area of Srinagar today. According to a CBI spokesperson, Shangloo conspired with JKLF chief Yasin Malik and others in committing a crime under various s

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday expressed deep concern over the health of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, saying India stands ready to extend all possible support in whatever way we can. In a post on X, Modi wrote, Deeply concerned to learn about the health of Begum Khaleda Zia, who has contributed to Bangladeshs public life for many years. Our sincere prayers and best wishes for her speedy recovery. India stands ready to extend all possible support, in whatever w

NEW DELHI: Flying out of airports in Mumbai and Delhi could get costlier for the public if the plan by its private operators to hike the User Development Fee (UDF) is approved. The Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA), as well as domestic and foreign airlines are opposing the hike, and the matter is set to come up for hearing in the Supreme Court on December 3. The fee could get doubled for the flyers as it would get recovered over two five-year control periods and will not be hiked mul

NEW DELHI: In keeping with its long tradition of supporting and promoting sporting talent with its players regularly representing India on the world stage the Ministry of Railways on Monday promoted three women cricketers, Pratika Rawal, Sneh Rana, and Renuka Singh Thakur, to Group B Officer-grade posts as Officers on Special Duty (Sports) through Out-of-Turn Promotion. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, encouraging them during their visit to the ministry, said they have made the nation proud

NEW DELHI : India has granted Pakistan permission for a Pakistani aircraft carrying humanitarian aid for cyclone victims in Sri Lanka to use its airspace. India also described as fake reports in the Pakistani media that India has not granted overflight facility to Pakistan to send aid to Sri Lanka. According to sources, an official request for overflight was submitted by Pakistan to India at around 1300 hrs IST today, seeking permission to fly over Indian airspace on the same day, December 1. Gi

MUMBAI: Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Monday claimed that as many as 35 MLAs from the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena camp are set to defect to the BJP after the local body elections in Maharashtra. Earlier, Maharashtra BJP president Ravindra Chavan had made a similar claim that after the local body polls, there would be a major political earthquake in the state. He even said that there is no importance to the number two position deputy chief minister in government, only th

KOLKATA: In a startling revelation, the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls could not find any dead, duplicate or untraceable voters in 2,208 polling booths across West Bengal. The Election Commission of India (ECI) came to know about the matter after verifying the enumeration forms that have already been digitised. In the SIR exercise, Booth Level Officers (BLOs) distribute enumeration forms among voters during their door-to-door visits and collect them once they are

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday held a telephonic conversation with Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and assured Indias continued assistance to the flood-hit island nation under Operation Sagar Bandhu, an ongoing humanitarian mission responding to the devastation caused by Cyclone Ditwah . According to an official release, Modi conveyed his condolences over the loss of lives and the extensive damage triggered by the cyclone. He said the people of India stand in fir

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court was informed on Monday by Advocate Prashant Bhushan appearing for the petitioners, that despite its strict directions, vacant posts in the Central Information Commission (CIC) have not been filled. The CIC has been without a Chief since September 14, 2025, and of the 10 posts of Information Commissioners, eight remain vacant. The backlog of cases in the CIC has now reached 30,134, Bhushan told a two-judge bench, headed by Justices Surya Kant and Bagchi, during the he

NEW DELHI: Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday informed the Lok Sabha that the theory of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin continues to be part of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) school curriculum. He was responding to a query from MP Dr. Kalanidhi Veeraswamy on whether the government had removed the theory from the Class 10 NCERT science syllabus. The MP had also asked for the reasons, if such a move had been made, and whether experts and researc

NEW DELHI : India has an estimated 25.61 lakh people living with HIV (PLHIV), the second largest number globally in 2024, although the annual HIV incidence rate remains very low in the country, according to a government report released on Monday to mark World AIDS Day. The India HIV Estimation 2025 technical report, released by Union Health Minister JP Nadda, states that in 202425, 73% of newly detected HIV-positive persons reported acquiring the infection through heterosexual transmission. This

BHOPAL: A major portion of a more than 50-year-old bridge collapsed in Madhya Pradeshs Raisen district on Monday, killing a 35-year-old man and injuring at least three others. While a three-member enquiry committee has been constituted to probe the matter, AA Khan, who is a manager of the MP Road Development Corporation (MPRDC) has been suspended. The portion of the bridge in Nayagaon area on the Bareli-Pipariya State Highway in Raisen district collapsed while a motorcycle and scooter were passi

NEW DELHI: The much-awaited Delhi-Dehradun Expressway, expected to reduce travel time by almost four hours, was opened for a trial run on Monday. Developed at an approximate cost of Rs 12,000 crore, the corridor will significantly reduce the travel time between the national capital and the city located in the Doon Valley on the foothills of the Himalayas in Uttarakhand from the existing 6.5 hours to just 2.5 hours. The access controlled expressway, that has an operational speed limit of 100 kmph

PATNA: Bihar Congress president Rajesh Kumar on Monday clarified that the grand old partys alliance with Opposition Mahagathbandhan , a part of INDIA bloc, was only for Bihar assembly elections and that the party would now focus on strengthening the organisation. Kumar was talking to the media after a crucial meeting with all district presidents and officer bearers frontal organisations. It was the first meeting with district level leaders after the partys drubbing in the state assembly election

MUMBAI: 21-year-old Aanchal Mamidwar married her deceased lover Saksham Tate in Nanded district of Maharashtra on Monday. Saksham was murdered by Aanchal's father and brother, who both disapproved of her relationship with a lower-caste man. Aanchal arrived at Saksham's house upon hearing of his death. In an act of defiance, she applied turmeric on her lover's corpse and vermillion on her forehead, publicly 'marrying' him at his funeral. Videos of Aanchal's marriage with Saksham's lifeless body w

NEW DELHI: HIV burden in the South-East Asia Region remains substantial with 88,000 people newly infected, and around 50,000 people dying of HIV-related causes last year, the WHO said on Monday on the occasion of World AIDS Day. While about 3.5 million people in the region live with HIV, challenges are compounded by 42 million people living with hepatitis B, seven million with hepatitis C, and 60 million with sexually transmitted infections (STIs), the World Health Organisation (WHO) said. Vulne

NEW DELHI: Union parliamentary affairs minister, Kiren Rijiju, on Monday stated in Rajya Sabha that the Government is not averse to holding a detailed discussion on the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Clarifying the Governments stand on the Oppositions insistence, he said that their request for a debate on the issue is already under active consideration. However, Rijiju urged the Opposition members not to press for a strict timeline for conducting the discussion. Nobody is u

CHANDIGARH: To curb the drug menace in the state, the Himachal Pradesh government has decided to give a reward to those who provide information about people involved in the chitta (an adulterated form of heroin) business. The reward ranges from a minimum of Rs 10,000 to a maximum of Rs 10 lakh. Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Monday led the Anti-chitta Awareness Walkathon in Dharamshala in which a large number of school children and people from various sections of socie

GUWAHATI: Manipur government on Monday constituted state and district levels committees to strengthen the ongoing efforts for rehabilitation and resettlement of the people who were internally displaced by the ethnic violence. The government made an announcement on the constitution of the panels through a statement, issued hours after the internally displaced persons (IDPs) had launched a month-long protest demanding their resettlement at their original homes by this month. The statement said the

PATNA: Former minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, Prem Kumar, who has won the Gaya Town seat for the ninth consecutive term in recent Bihar polls, is set to be elected as Speaker of Bihar legislative assembly unopposed. Kumar filed his nomination papers for the post of assembly Speaker on Monday in the presence of Nitish, Samrat, Vijay and others. The Opposition did not field any candidate against Kumar, paving the way for the latters election as Speaker unopposed. He was of

NEW DELHI : The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to consider allowing a pregnant woman and her child, who were pushed into Bangladesh earlier this year, to enter India on humanitarian ground while keeping her under surveillance. A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi asked Solicitor General Tushar Mehta to seek instruction on allowing the woman, who is in the advanced stage of pregnancy, to enter India through the Indo-Bangladesh border at Malda in West Bengal. G

Industrialist Anil Ambani has approached the Supreme Court of India, challenging a recent Bombay High Court order that upheld the State Bank of Indias (SBI) decision to classify his personal loan account and that of Reliance Communications (RCom) as fraud. The Supreme Court is yet to schedule the matter for hearing. The Bombay High Court, in its October 3 order, dismissed Ambanis plea, holding that SBIs decision did not warrant interference and that the petition lacked merit. SBI had designated

Four people have been rounded up for questioning in connection with the murder of a 26-year-old professional bodybuilder, Rohit Dhankar, for protesting against alleged sexual misconduct towards women during a wedding in Haryana's Bhiwani. According to media reports citing eye witness accounts, Dhankar was brutally beaten up with hockey sticks and rods by a group of 18-20 men on Friday night while he was attending the wedding ceremony of a friend's relative. Jatin, whose relative's wedding it was

NEW DELHI: The civil aviation ministry on Monday said all probable causes leading to the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad in June are being investigated and emphasised that the preliminary probe report contains factual information based on the evidence available at that point in time. A total of 260 people, including 241 passengers and crew members, died when a London Gatwick-bound Air India Boeing 787-8 aircraft crashed soon after take off from Ahmedabad on June 12. Only one passenger survive

NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted raids at 12 locations on Monday across Maharashtra's Nandurbar and Mumbai in connection with a money laundering allegation against religious educational institute Jamia Islamia Ishaatul Uloom. Law enforcement agencies last year found that two Yemeni nationals were illegally residing at the institute premise in Akkalkuwa, leading to the probe. Agencies also found that there were irregularities at As-Salam Hospital, run by the same trust, inclu

NEW DELHI: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday slammed Narendra Modi's enjoy the weather remark, and wondered whether the prime minister was aware of what was happening in Delhi and around the country. The prime minister's remark ahead of the Winter Session of Parliament came at a time when winter had set in across parts of India, but the Congress linked it with the air pollution in several cities, particularly Delhi. You also enjoy the weather, Modi told reporters in Parliament in h

While welcoming the new Rajya Sabha Chairman C P Radhakrishnan on his first day of chairing the House proceedings on Monday, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge made a mention of the unexpected and sudden exit of his predecessor, Jagdeep Dhankhar, irking the treasury benches. Referring to the sudden exit of Dhankar, Kharge said, It was a completely unexpected and sudden exit from the office of Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, which is unexpected in the annals of the parliamentary history. I was di

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday said the air pollution issue in the Delhi-NCR cannot be treated as a customary case to be listed only during the winter months, noting that it will be taken twice in a month to find out short and long-term solutions to the menace. In a significant shift from the usual narrative, a bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi said, The issue of stubble burning should not unnecessarily become a political issue or an issue of ego. Ques

KOLKATA: A Bangladeshi couple have finally received Indian citizenship after spending 35 years in Nadia district of West Bengal. Laturam Sikdar and his wife Padma Sikdar have been staying at Kamgachhi Joypur under Nadias Taherpur police station area for the past 35 years. Laturam used to stay at Sanatanpur in Bangladesh while Padma was a resident of Panditpur, before coming to India. The couple had managed to get Aadhaar cards a few years after entering India, but could not include their names t

The Ministry of Civil Aviation on Monday disclosed that incidents of GPS spoofing and interference with flights have been reported at major airports in the country, including Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Amritsar, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai. In a written reply to questions raised by YSRCP MP S Niranjan Reddy in the Rajya Sabha, Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu confirmed that GPS spoofing was reported in the vicinity of the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) in New Delhi. Some fl

KOLKATA: West Bengal has recorded more than 21 lakh dead voters so far till Monday afternoon, according to sources in the Election Commission of India (ECI). In North 24 Parganas district alone, more than 2.75 lakh dead voters have been identified in the state by the ECI. West Bardhaman and South 24 Parganas hold second and third positions respectively in term of dead voters identified by the Commission during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls so far in the state. West Ba

SRINAGAR: A senior BSF official on Monday disclosed that there are 69 active launching pads across the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir, where around 100-120 militants are waiting to infiltrate. Addressing a press conference, IG BSF Kashmir Frontier Ashok Yadav said the BSF, in coordination with the army, has effectively dominated the LoC in Kashmir, resulting in foiling fourinfiltration attempts this year in which eight militants were killed. The BSF, he said, also carried out 22 joint operatio

Lok Sabha proceedings were adjourned on Monday, the first day of the Winter session of the Parliament, amid unrelenting protests by the opposition parties demanding a discussion on the controversial Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The Opposition has been pushing for a debate on the exercise launched by the Election Commission, pointing out several issues, including the rising number of suicides of the booth level officers (BLO), allegedly due to work pressure. Before being a

DHAKA: A court in Bangladeshs capital sentenced ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to five years in prison and her niece, British Labour Party lawmaker Tulip Siddiq, to two years in prison Monday for corruption involving a government land project. Rabiul Alam, the judge of Dhakas Special Judges Court, said Hasina misused her power as prime minister while Siddiq was guilty of corruptly influencing her aunt in helping her mother and two siblings get a land plot in a government project. Siddiqs mo

Australia will soon ban under-16s from the likes of Facebook and TikTok, a world-first move of huge interest to all those worried about the harms of social media. Internet regulators around the world are watching to see if Australia can rein in the tech giants -- but questions remain as the ban approaches on December 10. Here's what we know about how Australia will enforce the new restrictions. - Prove age - Starting December 10, some of the world's largest social media platforms will be forced

CHANDIGARH: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has declined the proposal of the Haryana Government to construct a separate assembly building in Chandigarh. Highly placed sources said that the MHA has advised the senior officials of the Haryana Government not to pursue this matter any further. Sources further said that this kind of land swap might not fall within the purview of the Capital of Punjab (Development and Regulation) Act, 1952, which governs land use in Chandigarh. Earlier this year, t

A 51-year-old businesswoman in Mumbai was allegedly forcibly stripped naked at gunpoint, abused and threatened by senior officials of a private company, according to reports by NDTV and India Today . The woman, in her complaint to the Mumbai Police, named Joy John Pascal Post, Managing Director and founder member of Franco-Indian Pharmaceuticals. According to the complaint, the woman was called to the pharma company's premises under the pretext of a business meeting. Once there, she claimed the

Thiruvananthapuram MP and senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday missed yet another crucial party meeting, fueling speculation about his strained relationship with the Congress as the Winter Session of Parliament commenced. The Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, chaired by Sonia Gandhi on Sunday, was convened to finalise the partys strategy for the session, which is expected to be dominated by debates on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls and national security in

NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday introduced two bills in the Lok Sabha to levy excise duty on tobacco and tobacco products, and a new cess on manufacturing of pan masala, which will replace the GST compensation cess on such sin goods. The Central Excise (Amendment) Bill, 2025, will replace the GST compensation cess, which is currently levied on all tobacco products like cigarette, chewing tobacco, cigars, hookahs, zarda, and scented tobacco. The bill seeks o give the gov

NEW DELHI: Parliament is not a place for drama, it is a place for delivery, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday in a hard-hitting attack on the opposition and accused it of turning the House into a warm up arena for elections or as an outlet to vent out frustration after defeat. Speaking to reporters outside Parliament ahead of the Winter session, he said the session must not become a stage for political theatrics but a platform for constructive and result-driven debate, and offered to g

DEORIA: Police have detained a man after a video allegedly showing a group of people assaulting a youth with a belt and slippers, and forcing him to lick spit in a village here surfaced online, officials said on Monday. The video, purportedly from Gobarai village, has been circulating on social media since Sunday evening. According to the police complaint lodged by the victim's mother, her son was on his way to Deoria town for shopping around 3 pm on November 29 when four men from Sakra Par and

NEW DELHI: India on Monday pitched for a global mechanism to check any possible misuse of biological weapons in view of the uncertain international security environment. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said misuse of biological weapons by non-state actors is no longer a distant possibility and international cooperation is needed to combat such a challenge. He was speaking at a conference on 50 years of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). Bioterrorism is a serious concern that the int

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Monday hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, dubbing him the iggest dramabaaz after he accused the opposition of indulging in drama in Parliament. In a statement on X, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge said that instead of addressing the real issue of people, Prime Minister Modi has once again made his 'dramebazi delivery. He said the reality is that the government has been continuously trampling parliamentary decorum and system for the past 11 years, and the long

MUZAFFARNAGAR: A 28-year-old woman was allegedly strangled to death by her in-laws over dowry demands at Kasoli village in Muzaffarnagar district, police said on Monday. The victim, Hina, was killed on Sunday evening after prolonged harassment for dowry, officials said. Circle Officer D Bajpai told reporters that police rushed to the spot upon receiving information and sent the body for postmortem. A case has been registered against the victim's husband Khushnaseeb, father-in-law Intazar, mother

SRINAGAR: In the aftermath of the demolition of journalist Arfaz Daings house in Jammu, a wave of unexpected goodwill and communal harmony has swept across Jammu and Kashmir. At the centre of this moment is Kuldeep Sharma, who gifted five marlas of land to his Muslim neighbour to help him rebuild his home. Sharmas act of compassion and communal harmony has triggered an outpouring of support in the Valley with individuals offering land and even a houseboat to honour his selfless act. Sharma, a re

BHOPAL: In a significant departure from the extravagant five-star and destination weddings often associated with the families of political heavyweights, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Dr Mohan Yadavs son, Dr Abhimanyu Yadav, married his bride, Dr Ishita Yadav, at a mass marriage ceremony in the familys home city of Ujjain on Sunday. Abhimanyu and Ishita were among 21 couples from various Hindu communities who tied the knot at the vibrant ceremony held in Sawarakhedi, Ujjain. The newly married cou

RANCHI: Making a sensational revelation, State BJP Chief and Leader of the Opposition in the Jharkhand Assembly, Babulal Marandi, has claimed that fearing the possibility of normal phone calls being traced, the police and the coal mafia in Dhanbad are now preparing to operate a coal theft syndicate using Apples FaceTime. According to Marandi, this indicates a new strategy in which elements within the police and the coal mafia may be shifting to FaceTime, considered more difficult to intercept du

Parliament Winter Session to begin today The Winter Session of Parliament begins today, with the government set to push through an extensive legislative agenda that includes 14 Bills. The session comes amid heightened tensions between the ruling NDA and the Opposition, with the latter demanding debates on issues such as the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, the recent suicides of Booth Level Officers (BLOs), and national security concerns following the Delhi car blast. Parliam

SRINAGAR: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday carried out raids at eight locations in Pulwama, Shopian and Kulgam districts of Kashmir in connection with a white-collar terror module that was behind a car blast near Delhi's Red Fort, officials said here. The NIA teams conducted searches at the residence of Moulvi Irfan Ahmad Wagay in Shopian, officials said. Wagay has emerged as the mastermind of the radicalisation and recruitment of the 'white-collar' terror module busted early la