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According to farmers' organisations, sugar mills in Maharashtra owe Rs 4,500 crores to sugarcane cultivators in pending dues.

Zeenat-ul-Islam was associated with the terror groups Al Badr and the Hizbul Mujahideen.

Shashank Rao, president of the striking BEST Workers’ Union on Saturday said the committee chaired by Maharashtra chief secretary ​ heard out to their demands but did not give any response.

The teenager hanged himself from a ceiling fan at his home on Friday evening when other members of the family were away in the fields

The Dialogue, being held in Samarkand, will be co-chaired by Swaraj and Uzbekistan;s Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov.

The 18-year-old has sustained head injuries and is being treated at the National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro Sciences.

BJP leader and lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay has written to Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and four other judges seeking live streaming of the Ayodhya title dispute case scheduled for hearing on January 29.

The change in the agency comes close on the heels of removal of Alok Verma as the director of the Central Bureau of Investigation by a high powered selection committee, officials said.

The vehicle carrying the rescuers from Odisha was attacked on the highway in East Jaintia Hills district following which the police escorted it.

The inter-sessional meeting was set up to follow up on the decisions taken during the India-US Ministerial 2+2 Dialogue, the first round of which was held in New Delhi in September 2018, and to make continued progress on bilateral cooperation on cross-cut...

Meetings between Shiv Sena chief Uddhay Thackeray, BMC comissioner Ajoy Mehta, BEST general manager Surendrakumar Bagde and BEST union leaders failed as there was no breakthrough in the ongoing strike.

Gurmeet Rahim's August 2017 rape sentence had brought reactionary violence that killed over 40 people.

The PIL filed by social worker Santosh Daundkar states that the proposed construction blatantly violates Environmental Protection Act and Coastal Regulation Zone Notification as well as several other construction norms and parameters.

Sources in the government said the ordinance is set to be reissued, but its timing is yet to be decided.

Dismissing the buzz about imminent new initiatives for farmers as political business as usual, P Sainath outlines why Parliament must convene an urgent special session if we want a comprehensive, long term fix to this distress.

The officials further point out that the five-judge bench comprises all the judges who are heading the benches separately and hence, once the hearing in this case begins, it is expected to be taken to the logical end as soon as possible.