India

The Minister of Human Resource Development Ramesh Pokhriyal said that the utility and service charge the fee-related matter of JNU has been sorted out following several rounds of discussions with representatives of university students and teachers.

The Andhra Pradesh High Court were hearing a clutch of petitions by farmers and women of 29 villages in Amaravati region, alleging that police were acting against norms and suppressing peaceful protests against the proposed move to shift the capital.

Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Chadoora area following information about the presence of militants there, they said.

The Kerala police has released the CCTV footages of Thoufique and Abdul Shameem walking with a bag in Thiruvananthapuram on the day of the incident around 8pm.

The last locust outbreak was reported in 1993 when the state's Agriculture Department had carried out preventive measures on 3,10,482 lakh hectares affected land, whereas control measures on 3.70 lakh hectare land have been done till January 12 so far.

Additional Chief Secretary (Education) Maninder Singh would inquire into the circumstances regarding discrepancies in the textbook and the report have to be submitted within seven days, an official statement said.

The searches were conducted under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) at about 11 premises and the person under the scanner is an alleged cattle smuggler identified as Mohammed Inamul Haq.

On January 9, a Delhi court had directed Tihar Jail authorities to provide treatment for polycythemia to Azad at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in the national capital.

Within the government, there was the view that the response to the protests, in which 19 people were killed, was slow and police needs to be given more power, sources said.

This is the second time that the registration date has been extended in a week. Earlier, it had been extended from January 5 to 12.

The BJP leader was addressing a rally organised by the Janjagran Manch in support of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) at GYMC Ground in Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior.

The case against Subhash Mane, former Nayab Tehsildar of Alibaug in Raigad district, and his wife Sunanda, was registered on Friday, the anti-graft agency said in a statement.

"I am also back in the picture," India opener Shikhar Dhawan said after his fluent fifty in the third T20 International against Sri Lanka.

The two kidnapped the boy from outside his school on Wednesday. They took him to Shegaon in Buldhana district in a car where the man stayed with the victim, while the woman returned to Butibori, the police said.

He accepted that he had stressed relationship with his wife and therefore, he planned hire a contract killer to kill his wife. The contract killer has also been arrested on Friday, said the police.

Officials of the ministry told the members of the students' union that they are not supposed to pay utility and service charges and the cost will be borne by the University Grants Commission (UGC) as promised earlier.