North India

Supreme Court has stayed Allahabad High Court verdict which held the Uttar Pradesh Board of Madarsa Education Act, 2004, as "unconstitutional" and violative of the principle of secularism.

Police in Rajasthan have filed an FIR against a magistrate over allegations that he asked a Dalit woman, a rape survivor, to remove her clothes.

Action has been taken against two Uttar Pradesh police constables for posting comments on social media in favour of senior politician and former five-time UP MLA Mukhtar Ansari who died last week, officials said on Wednesday.

Six months after he was arrested, the Supreme Court granted bail to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh in the Delhi excise policy case on Tuesday, after the Enforcement Directorate told the apex court that it has “no objection” to his bail.

Delhi minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Atishi has revealed on Tuesday that four additional senior leaders of the AAP are slated for arrest within the next two months unless she joins the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the Varanasi court order of January 31 by which Hindu parties were allowed to hold puja in the southern cellar of the historic Gyanvapi Mosque.

A Delhi Court on Monday remanded Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to judicial custody till April 15 in the money laundering case related to the alleged liquor policy scam case. He was arrested on the night of March 21.

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and Apna Dal (Kamerawadi) announced an alliance in Uttar Pradesh for the Lok Sabha elections on Sunday.

A ‘Maharally’ has been organised by the Indian National Developmental, Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) at Ramlila Maidan in the national capital today to “safeguard” to speak against many issues including Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest by the ED, and the “misuse” of Central probe agencies against Opposition leaders by the Union government.

The Delhi Police Special Cell on Saturday filed an 8,000-page chargesheet in the UAPA case against NewsClick founder and editor Prabir Puryakayastha.

Several Muslim students at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) in New Delhi, one of India’s top journalism schools, accused the administration of religious discrimination when the university denied them permission to organize an Iftar party on the institute’s premises while other religious festivals were being celebrated on campus with permission.

Slogans of “Brhamanwaad, Baniyawaad Murdabad”, echoed at the Ashoka University (AU) campus on March 22 as a part of the ongoing sit-in protests while student groups managed to disrupt...