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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday carried out searches at multiple places in Jammu and Doda districts of Jammu and Kashmir against members of banned Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) in a terror funding case, officials said.   Simultaneous raids are underway at nearly a dozen places at the premises of JeI …

  The Idol Wing of CID, tracing back a burglary that occurred 51 years ago, traced a Parvati idol which was listed for auction by Bonham’s auction house, in New York. The authorities have traced five idols belonging to the Chola period; they were stolen from Nadanapureshwarar Sivan temple near Kumbakonam …

A policeman allegedly shot himself dead with his service rifle at a court complex in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district, officials said on Monday. Special Police Officer (SPO) Gurmesh Singh (46) was on guard duty at Doda Sessions Court when his colleagues heard a gunshot and rushed towards him, only …

A special court in Mumbai on Monday remanded Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut to 14-day judicial custody in a money laundering case linked to alleged irregularities in the redevelopment of a Mumbai ‘chawl’. The court allowed Raut’s plea for home food and medicines, but refused to pass an order on …

The Congress on Monday termed the Enforcement Directorate summons to Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge as an "outright affront" to Parliament and MPs, and said it is high time that presiding officers of both Houses ensure that it does not recur.   The Enforcement Directorate had on …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday hailed M Venkaiah Naidu’s wit and one-liners as he praised his five-year term as vice president and Rajya Sabha chairman during which the "productivity of the House increased 70 per cent". In his farewell speech for Naidu in Rajya Sabha, Modi said the outgoing chairman …

Three women got killed and four injured in a stampede outside Khatu Shyam ji Temple in Rajastan during the early hours of Monday.   Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot condoled the deaths and wished a speedy recovery of those injured. Long queues were seen outside …

Government officials on Monday morning demolished the "illegal" structures built by absconding politician Shrikant Tyagi outside his Noida residence.   The demolition outside Tyagi’s ground floor apartment in Grand Omaxe society in the city’s Sector 93B was carried out around 9am by the Noida Authority, an official told PTI.    …

US naval ship Charles Drew docked at Larsen & Toubro’s shipyard at Kattupalli in Chennai on Sunday for undertaking repairs and allied services, in the first such visit to India by an American vessel.   The Defence Ministry described it as a "huge boost" to ‘Make in India’ and said …

Delhi BJP leaders, including MPs and MLAs, protested outside Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence on Sunday demanding the expulsion of his deputy Manish Sisodia from the Cabinet over corruption allegations.   The chief of the BJP’s Delhi unit Adesh Gupta alleged that Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia "colluded with the …