The demonstration came amid demands by six communities to be given Scheduled Tribes status.

The Election Commission said that a first information report has been registered in the matter and two persons have been arrested.

The bench observed that it was an ‘admitted fact’ that inflammatory material had been recovered from the person accused in the matter.

The country’s interior minister did not blame any armed group but said that the authorities were ‘looking into all aspects’ of the attack.

In September, a separate two-judge bench of the court had issued the directive to ensure ‘fairness of probe’ in the communal clashes case.

An excerpt from ‘The Struggle’, by Showkat Ali, translated from the Bengali by V Ramaswamy and Mohiuddin Jahangir.

Gossip is a subject which Austen explores in all these forms in her first novel, ‘Sense and Sensibility’.

The cases were registered as part of a drive in Ballia against the use of high-decibel loudspeakers at religious places, a police official said.

The bench has directed the poll panel to respond within two weeks.

The votes will be counted on Friday.

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The Muslim candidate of South Asian origin faced hostility because he called out the political motivations behind the Gujarat riots.

The bench said the test of an advertisement has to be seen based on what impact or impression it would have.

For people trying to make informed choices about their own health and that of their families, can be tough to make sense of the news.

Two years after PM JANMAN’s launch, ground accounts suggest the scheme’s implementation is patchy. Many who are supposed to have benefited hadn’t heard of it.

The overall polling percentage among women was 71.6%.

An excerpt from ‘A Sixth Of Humanity: Independent India’s Development Odyssey’, by Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian.

Judges from less represented social backgrounds reshape judicial reasoning based on their experience and perspective, broadening the meaning of justice.

Nazrul Islam Barbhuiyan ‘tried to give a political angle’ to the incident, the police alleged.

On Tuesday, non-essential construction work was banned and primary schools were shifted to hybrid mode after the air quality worsened.

The relief of two felines, seemingly relaxed but with alert expressions, could be expressive of the artist’s abilities of resistance in the face of turmoil.