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This judgement was delivered by a bench of Jutice R.K. Pattanaik on July 3, while hearing a petition challenging the legality of criminal proceedings initiated against a man in a case where a relationship had gone sour after seven years.

Delhi’s Rouse Avenue court has summoned Brij Bhushan Singh, a Member of Parliament from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the former Wrestling Chief of India, in connection with allegations of sexual harassment made by the country’s leading female wrestlers. 

Addressing an event in Raipur, Prime Minister Modi said that the projects will create new employment opportunities for the people of the region and pave way for the development of the state.

In a rude jolt to the Shiv Sena (UBT), its senior leader and Deputy Chairperson of Maharashtra Legislative Council Dr. Neelam Gorhe joined the ruling ally Shiv Sena, here on Friday.

"There was panic and we all ran out for safety," said a passenger who was travelling in S5. Senior officials of South Central Railway (SCR) rushed to the spot and were making alternate arrangements for the travel of passengers.

During an interaction with the Indian community in Dar-es-Salaam on Thursday as part of his ongoing visit to Tanzania, Jaishankar stressed on the importance of Mission IT (India & Tanzania).

In the continuing pre-poll violence over the July 8 panchayat polls in West Bengal, a local Congress leader Aurobindo Mondal was lynched allegedly by the ruling Trinamool Congress activists in Murshidabad district on Friday morning.

Soon after the Gujarat High Court on Friday denied stay on the conviction of former Congress president Rahul Gandhi in a 'Modi surname' remark defamation case, the Congress said that it respects the court judgement and would approach the Supreme Court.

The Gujarat High Court on Friday refused to stay Rahul Gandhi's conviction and two-year jail term in a criminal defamation case, which led to the loss of his Parliament membership.

Sources say that he borrowed the service pistol from the gunman and went inside his room. On hearing a firing noise from the DIG's room, the gunman rushed inside only to find the senior IPS officer lying in a pool of blood.

Secretary (West) in the External Affairs Ministry, Sanjay Verma, while delivering his statement at the NAM ministerial meeting, said that India rejects the "unfounded and baseless remarks" by Pakistan.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), in a tweet on Thursday, said: “Announcing the launch of Chandrayaan-3: LVM3-M4/Chandrayaan-3 Mission:The launch is now scheduled for July 14, 2023, at 2:35 pm IST from SDSC, Sriharikota.”

Dismissing all speculation on this count, Bharatiya Janata Party's Maharashtra President Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Thursday asserted that Eknath Shinde will continue as the state Chief Minister for his full term till 2024.

Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to France next week, Emmanuel Bonne, the diplomatic advisor to French President Emmanuel Macron, called on National Security Advisor Ajit Doval here on Thursday.

Recalling his recent meeting with Macron in Hiroshima, the Prime Minister said that he looked forward to continuing their conversation in Paris that would further strengthen the India-France Strategic Partnership. 

A day after a meeting in Mumbai, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Thursday was chairing the party's National Executive meeting here in wake of the split in the party by his nephew Ajit Pawar, who joined the Eknath Shinde government in Maharashtra.

Addressing a 'Digital India Dialogues' session on the recently-revised production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for IT hardware in Bengaluru, the minister said that our ambitions are very clear -- a $300 billion Electronics industry and the $1 trillion digital economy by 2026.

Poll-bound BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh witnessed another inhuman incident against two youths belonging to the lower castes, who were humiliated, paraded with garlands of shoes and forced to eat faeces.

Krishnananda has cheated people through GETSO Earning App. The EOW was able to crack down the mobile App after a person namely Dibyajyoti Kar of Nayapalli, Bhubaneswar, lodged a complaint against the App, an EOW official said.

The Congress may take a big decision regarding Sachin Pilot on Thursday, said party leaders as a significant meeting of the party was underway in Delhi over the poll preparedness in Rajasthan.

The investigating officials of the central agency are of the opinion that unless these documents are available they will not be able to have a clear idea of the sources and destinations of the fund transactions.

Sena (UBT) MP and Chief Spokesperson Sanjay Raut said that the induction of another around 40 NCP MLAs into the Sena-BJP government that was already enjoying a 170-MLAs majority “is beyond the understanding of the ordinary masses”.

The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear on July 10 the Delhi government’s plea challenging the constitutionality of the ordinance brought by the Centre on control of services in the national capital.

The country’s impressive growth experienced in 2022-23, when the world economy was rocked by inflation and restrained by monetary tightening, is a narrative on what works for the Indian economy, and what clearly works is the strength of its domestic demand.

Mehbooba told the media on Wednesday that the census of 2011 had stated that there are only 19,047 homeless in J&K while the Lt Governor, Manoj Sinha said that so far 1.45 lakh landless people had been provided 5 Marlas each to build their homes.