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The bench was hearing a plea filed by Congress leader Vishwanath Chaturvedi seeking a direction to the probe agency to apprise the court of the status of the investigation.

The private bus had started from Nashik in north Maharashtra and was headed towards Palghar, around 100 kms from here, an official said.

Once the largest sugar factory in Asia, the Nizam Sugars Limited employed several thousands in the region. But its closure in 2014 affected employment.

While the police claimed that the “brawl” was triggered over a game of cricket on Holi, the victim family said it was a planned attack by a group of people backed by a Hindutva outfit.

The police officer had objected to the use of guns at the event.

Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba said the separatists outfit has been banned as the government has policy of zero tolerance against terrorism.

As per the plea, the phrase is used commonly in Maharashtra to address someone who is considered 'foolish' or naive.

Tensions between India and Pakistan escalated after a suicide bomber of Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed killed 40 CRPF personnel in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district on February 14.

Located in Barabanki, about 25km from Lucknow, the shrine also known as the Dewa Sharif, is perhaps the only Sufi shrine in India where people irrespective of their caste and creed gather to play Holi.

The latest set of entries follow an ongoing set of themed appeals by OED, calling on the public to help expand the dictionary's coverage of language from specific contexts as part of its 90th anniversary celebrations.

Question papers of two subjects of the SSC (Class X) exam conducted by the Maharashtra State Board were found leaked at Bhiwandi in Thane district of Maharashtra.

The deceased have been identified as head constables Pokarmal R of Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan, Yogendra Sharma of Delhi and Umed Singh of Rewari in Haryana.

Mohammad Jawid said he also did not get compensation of Rs 10 lakh announced by the Centre as the DNA samples between Shabbir and his family did not match. Besides his brother, Shabbir, sister-in-law Sameena, their three sons and a daughter, Jawid lost fi...

ED has filed the case on the basis of an FIR lodged by the NIA accusing Saeed and others, including Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin, of 'conspiring to wage war against the government' and fomenting trouble in the Kashmir Valley.

In addition to 10 ambulances and five fire tenders deployed for relief and rescue operations, three teams of the National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF) have been engaged, two from Ghaziabad and one from Bengaluru.

The Commission directed Birla Sun Life to cough up the insured sum of Rs 5 Crore and pay simple interest at the rate of 8 per cent from the time of institution of the complaint in 2013.