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New Delhi, Mar 8: The CBI on Thursday moved the Supreme Court to challenge the clean chit issued to Aarushi Talwar's parents Rajesh and Nupur Talwar. The Allahabad High Court in October last year acquitted Rajesh and Nupur in the murder of their teenage daughter Aarushi and their domestic help Hemraj in 2008. The verdict ended a nine-year ordeal of the parents who were found guilty by a CBI court

Amaravati, Mar 8: Two BJP ministers in the Chandrababu Naidu Cabinet in Andhra Pradesh today resigned after the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) decided to pull out of the Narendra Modi government. Health minister Kamineni Srinivas and Endowments minister P Manikyala Rao met the chief minister at the state Assembly and submitted their resignations. They thanked him for having inducted them into the state

New Delhi, Mar 8: The Supreme Court has asked Karti Chidambaram, the son of senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, to approach the Delhi High Court today for seeking any interim relief in the INX Media money laundering case. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra requested the acting Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court to allocate Karti Chidambaram matter to an appropriate bench so that it

Chennai, Mar 8: Adding to the list of statues of leaders being vandalised in various parts of the country, a bust of Dalit leader B R Ambedkar in a residential locality here was found defaced today, triggering a protest by locals, police said The bust, placed inside a structure covered with a grill in a residential neighbourhood in Tiruvotriyur, was splattered with paint. As news of the defacement

Ballia(UP), Mar 8: A statue of Lord Hanuman was desecrated in Uttar Pradesh's Kharuav village, triggering tension in the area, police said on Thursday. The incident comes amid an ongoing spate of incidents targeting statues and busts of known figures across the country. Station House Officer, Nagra, Ram Dinesh Tiwari, said the statue was damaged on Wednesday and a poster was also found pasted on

Kohima, Mar 8: NDPP leader Neiphiu Rio was on Thursday sworn in as Nagaland chief minister by Governor P B Acharya at a public function here. This is Rio's fourth time as the chief minister of the Northeastern state. Rio is heading the 'People's Democratic Alliance' government in partnership with the BJP in the state. BJP's Y Patton was administered the oath as the deputy chief minister by the

New Delhi, Mar 8: TDP leader Y S Chowdary on Thursday said he and his colleague Ashok Gajapathi Raju were stepping down as ministers but would continue to be part of the NDA, a move that was necessitated by "unavoidable circumstances". Likening the decision to an unfortunate divorce, Chowdary, the Union Minister of State for science and technology, said he and Raju, Union civil aviation minister

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s strong condemnation of incidents of vandalism of statues in different parts of the country seems to be no deterrent for the miscreants. According to latest reports, a statue of the father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi, was defaced by an unidentified person in Kerala on Thursday morning. According to Mathrubhoomi, the Mahatma Gandhi statue at taluk office in

Hyderabad, Mar 8: With the Union Finance Minister Arun Jailtley ruling out the Special Category Status to Andhra Pradesh, TDP supremo and Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu has directed two of his ministers to quit the Union Cabinet. Union Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju and Minister for Science and Technology Sujana Chowdary will submit their resignations on Thursday morning

Mumbai, Mar 8: In a big diplomatic victory for India, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday brought back from Dubai notorious gangster Farooq Takla – a close aide of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. Takla was formally deported to India by the authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) following his arrest by the CBI officials in Dubai. According to reports, an Air India