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‘A democracy is distinguished by the protection it gives to its minorities. A democracy is likely to degenerate into a tyranny if it does not allow the opposition groups to criticise fairly, freely and frankly.’

The victim has been identified as Rubina Bibi, a resident of Kotbar village. Last year, she married Sheikh Rezabul and was seven months pregnant at the time of the incident.

Hamid Ansari said the Rajya Sabha upholds democracy's sacred creed that debate and discussion were not a stumbling block, but an indispensable preliminary to wise action.

A bench comprising Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justices A K Goel and D Y Chandrachud issued a notice to Kerala-native Shafin Jahan and state police on the fresh plea of NIA that it needed a specific order to investigate the entire spectrum of the case ha...

Nathang village is 35 km from the Doklam India-Bhutan-China tri-junction, the site of the two-month old standoff between Indian and Chinese troops.

Medha Patkar, who has been on a hunger strike since July 27, said the manner in which she was confined in the hospital amounts to house arrest.

Vikas Barala and his friend were earlier arrested on Saturday but were released on bail. He finally joined the probe five days later on Wednesday morning, after police cancelled his bail bond and issued him the summons.

A senior official involved in airport security said two separate incidents occurred on Tuesday at the airport there when an immigration officer found the documents of a man, identified as Nishant Y, suspicious.

According to doctors at the AIIMS, Sanwar Lal Jat had a cardiac arrest which caused damage to his brain and he was on ventilator.

The incident allegedly took place on July 31, when a Raksha Bandhan programme was organised by the CRPF troopers at a residential school in Palnar village under Kuakonda police station, Dantewada Collector Saurabh Kumar said.

Government’s decision to oppose the minority character of Jamia Millia Islamia in the Delhi High Court on the analogy of its stand about Aligarh Muslim University has yet again shaken the confidence of the Muslim minority

Three militants were killed in Gurez when they tried to breach the border fence two weeks ago.

Ten of the inmates of Meera Sahabhagini ashram will visit Delhi on Monday to present basketfuls of sweets and rakhis to "brother Modi" on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan that celebrates the love between brothers and sisters.

In the application, Ajay Agrawal said he had filed the appeal in public interest because the CBI did not come forward and it was reported that the Law Ministry then had not given permission to the agency, despite the fact that the High Court order was ill...

Scientists have now demonstrated an effective way of using a gene-editing tool to correct a disease-causing gene mutation in human embryos and stop it from passing to future generations.

The flight, AI 809, which was scheduled to depart from the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport here at 11.15 am for New Delhi, took off at 2.34 pm, after a delay of nearly three-and-a-half hours.