The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has nabbed a suspected right-wing Sanatan Sanstha activist and recovered some explosive materials from his home in Palghar early on Friday, an official said.


Maharashtra ATS nabs suspected Sanatan Sanstha activist


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TVS Motor Company Limited Chairman Venu Srinivasan has moved the Madras High Court for anticipatory bail in a missing idol case, informed sources said on Thursday.


TVS Motor Chairman moves Madras HC for anticipatory bail


The Meghalaya government's coalition partners on Thursday urged it to take steps to prevent influx of illegal Bangladeshi migrants, excluded from the draft NRC in Assam, into the eastern state.


Allies urge Meghalaya government to check influx of illegal migrants


Union Minister of State for Water Resources Satya Pal Singh on Thursday told the Lok Sabha that a large number of projects have been taken up to combat pollution raised by cremation of bodies on ghats of river Ganga.


Mass projects to reduce pollution caused by cremation: Minister


Delhi Police on Thursday arrested a youth, who was part of the Kanwariyas, on the charges of vandalizing a car after it brushed one of them, police said.


Kanwariya held for vandalizing car in Delhi


Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is facing a disciplinary investigation following a string of complaints that his comments about the burqa breached the Conservative Partys code of conduct, the media reported on Thursday.


Boris Johnson facing party probe over burqa remarks


Actor-producer John Abraham, who has been doing patriotic films  for a while now, feels that world has now become a dangerous place to live in.


World has become a dangerous place to live in: John


The Union Cabinet on Thursday cleared amendments to the triple talaq bill with the fresh version allowing a magistrate to give bail to the men found instantly divorcing their wives.


Bail provision approved in triple talaq bill


A Muslim husband wants to perform a ritual for his dead Hindu wife and a temple society in a New Delhi Bengali-dominated neighbourhood has not allowed because they believe the woman was no longer a Hindu after her marriage even as she hadnt given up her faith.


She wasn't Hindu after marrying a Muslim, says temple head who denied shradh ritual for dead woman


A small batch of 346 pilgrims on Thursday left Jammu for the Kashmir Valley to perform the ongoing Amarnath Yatra, officials said.


346 pilgrims leave for Amarnath Yatra


The Supreme Court on Wednesday was told by the firecrackers' manufacturers that firecrackers alone were not the sole reason for rising pollution levels during Diwali though it was one of the contributing factors, and that an entire industry can't be shut down.


Firecrackers not necessary to bring people together: SC


A group of Kanwariyas on Wednesday vandalised a car here after it brushed one of them, police said.


Kanwariyas vandalise car after it brushes one of them


The Himachal Pradesh High Court has directed all Deputy Commissioners to provide details on the utilisation of temple funds in the last five years.


Give information on use of temple funds, HC tells Himachal DCs


The Sankaracharya of the Sankara Mutt in Kanchipuram has condoled  the death of DMK President M. Karunanidhi. BJP leader La. Ganesan on Wednesday said he has conveyed the condolence message of the Sankaracharya to the late leader's son M.K. Stalin.


Kanchi Sankara Mutt condoles Karunanidhi's death


Ahead of the Naag Panchmi festival next week, Forest Department officials have seized 21 snakes from snake charmers in the Sri Krishna Janam Bhoomi area here in the past two days.


21 snakes seized ahead of Naag Panchmi


The Himachal Pradesh government on Wednesday temporarily halted the Kinner Kailash pilgrimage, dedicated to Lord Shiva's 79-foot vertical rock Shiva Lingam.


Heavy rains halt Kinner Kailash pilgrimage in Himachal


A day after penning a poem to slam the draft NRC in Assam, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday wrote two more poems on the cancellation of her proposed visits to China, Chicago in the US and St Stephen's College in Delhi.


Bengal CM turns poetic again, this time on cancellation of foreign trips


BJP National Secretary Rahul Sinha on Tuesday called upon the Muslims in the country to support the draft NRC in Assam and said that Trinamool Congress' opposition was an "attempt to divert attention from its failures in West Bengal".


Bengal BJP calls upon Muslims to support NRC


The Supreme Court will hear on August 13 a plea for a court-monitored  SIT probe into the lynching of cattle trader Qasim by cow vigilantes in Hapur in Uttar Pradesh in June.


Hapur lynching: SC to hear plea for SIT probe


A small batch of 454 pilgrims on Tuesday left Jammu for the Kashmir Valley as the annual Amarnath Yatra resumed after remaining suspended for two days, officials said.


Amarnath Yatra resumes, 454 pilgrims leave for Kashmir Valley


The Supreme Court on Monday declined a request for anticipatory bail by two priests of the Malankara Orthodox Church facing charges of sexual abuse.

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