The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to disclose information pertaining to its annual inspection report of banks under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, unless they are exempted under law. A Bench headed by Justice L. Nageswara Rao also directed the federal bank

Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative Yasin Bhatkal waged a war to create a Caliphate until he was arrested in 2013 and sentenced to death three years later. Bhatkal now appears to have made new friends in Delhi’s Tihar Jail, where he is on death row, and is fighting for another cause — the use of induct

A Surat district court Friday found Narayan Sai, the son of Asaram Bapu and four others guilty of rape. Judge P S Gadhvi, who pronounced the order to a packed court, said the quantum of sentence will be delivered on April 30. Sai, who was present in court, was seen laughing with his lawyer ahead of

The Supreme Court today ordered a probe headed by retired judge Justice AK Patnaik into lawyer Utsav Singh Bains's claims of a conspiracy to discredit Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi with sex harassment allegations. The top court, though, made it clear that Justice (Retd.) Patnaik will not look

Mumbai: Controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik on Thursday accused the Indian government of engaging in a "witch-hunt" and putting pressure on the Interpol to issue a red corner notice against him. In a statement issued here, Naik, who fled India in 2016, said he was aware of the "pressure the

The Crime Branch probing the murder of Rohit Shekhar on Wednesday arrested his wife Apoorva from his residence in south Delhi, an officer said. Additional Commissioner of Police Rajiv Ranjan told IANS, “We have arrested Apoorva with the help of scientific evidence and FSL report. She confessed th

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has reiterated that its decision to ban the release of the biographical film on Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the ongoing polls is valid, a source said on Wednesday. The ECI submitted its report in a sealed cover on biopic PM Narendra Modi to the Supre

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Gujarat government to pay a compensation of Rs 50 lakh to Bilkis Bano, who was gangraped during the 2002 riots, and to provide her a government job and accommodation. Bano in a plea before the top court had sought exemplary compensation from the state gove

Bollywood actor Sunny Deol on Tuesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party amid speculation that he may be fielded from a Lok Sabha seat in Punjab. “Like my father Dharmendra associated himself with Vajpayeeji, I am associating with Modiji. He has done a lot for the country and he can take us forwar

Utsav Bains, a Supreme Court lawyer, has claimed that the sexual harassment case against Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi was a conspiracy to remove the judge from office. Utsav Bains further said that an unidentified man approached him with a bribe of around Rs 1.5 crore to organise a m

A day after multiple blasts at hotels and churches in Sri Lanka killed 290 people, Prime Minister Narendra Modi used the terror attack at a poll rally to draw a parallel to the situation in India before he came to power in 2014. “Yesterday (on Sunday), bomb blast happened in Sri Lanka. Hundreds w

The India Air Force has recommended Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman for the Vir Chakra medal for shooting down an F-16 in an aerial engagement with the Pakistan Air Force on February 27. In the past, during wars, pilots who shot down enemy fighters were all given Vir Chakra medals. The Vir

New Delhi: Lieutenant General Deependra Singh Hooda on Sunday condemned Malegaon blast accused and BJP candidate from Bhopal constituency Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur's comments on 26/11 hero Hemant Karkare, saying security forces need to be respected. “Yes it does hurt when such things are said ab

Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi today strongly denied allegations of sexual harassment and said the independence of the judiciary is "under threat" and it "cannot be made a scapegoat". A special bench of the Supreme Court today called an emergency hearing after a former employee at the top court

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said the fielding of Pragya Singh Thakur, an accused in the Malegaon blasts case, as the BJP candidate from Bhopal was a symbolic answer to all those who labeled the rich Hindu civilization as “terrorist” and asserted that “this symbol will prove costly for the Congr

A day after the BJP announced the candidature of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur for the Bhopal Lok Sabha seat, the father of one of the six persons killed in the 2008 Malegaon blast moved the special NIA court in Mumbai Thursday, urging it to bar Thakur, a key accused in the case, from contesting the el

Malegaon blast accused and Bhopal Lok Sabha constituency's BJP candidate Pragya Singh Thakur on Friday said former Anti-Terrorist Squad chief Hemant Karkare died in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks as she had cursed him for treating her “very badly” while she was in custody in the 2008 Malegaon blast

Kolkata: In a sensational newsbreak from Raiganj in West Bengal, Times Now has learned that voters in the constituency are being discriminated against on religious lines as voting progressed in the second phase of Lok Sabha Elections on Thursday. Hindu voters at a village in the constituency have