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The incident allegedly took place on flight number AA292, which took off from New York on Friday and landed at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport in Delhi at 10.12 p.m. on Saturday.

A bench comprising justices B.R. Gavai and Sanjay Karol said: "It has been held that where an extra-judicial confession is surrounded by suspicious circumstances, its credibility becomes doubtful and it loses its importance."

While a recent hike of Rs 50 in the price of the 14.2 kg domestic liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinder led to the cost of the cylinder touching Rs 1,103, data has disclosed that the price has registered a rise of nearly 56 per cent in the last four years.

Sources in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said on Saturday that during the questionning of Manish Sisodia in connection with the 2021-22 excise policy case, the former Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi was confronted with his ex-secretary C. Arvind, and former Excise Commissioner Arva Gopi.

Addressing the Raisina Dialogue event, Sitharaman, while describing India as an attractive destination for global businesses, highlighted the rule of law among other factors as an important aspect.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said on Saturday that they have arrested an absconding accused in a case releated to the alleged rigging in Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) (Mains) examination-2021 by private coaching centres.

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said that his conversation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi left him "more optimistic than ever" about the progress that India is making in health, development, and climate.

Iran's semi-official Mehr News reported that Shahriar Heydari, a member of Parliament, cited an unnamed "reliable source" in saying that "nearly 900 students" from across the country had been poisoned so far, CNN reported.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will form a coalition government in three northeastern states -- Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya. Although the poll results of all these three states are crucial for the BJP, the victory in Nagaland is somehow more important in many ways.

He will be accompanied by Senator Don Farrell, Minister for Trade and Tourism, and Madeleine King MP, Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, along with senior officials and a high-level business delegation.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday said raids were recently conducted in 14 locations in connection to the Power Bank app fraud case and seized gold, diamonds and other valuables worth Rs 10 crore.

"Infrastructure development is the driving force of the country's economy", Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday while expressing confidence that India will emerge as a developed nation by 2047 by following this very path.

The Supreme Court has said that corruption is a malaise, the presence of which is all pervading in every walk of life and it is not now limited to the spheres of activities of governance and regrettably, responsible citizens say it has become a way of one's life.

The Supreme Court on Friday extended the jurisdiction, to the whole of the country, of a high-powered committee formed under chairmanship of its former judge, Justice Deepak Verma, in connection with welfare, care and rehabilitation of wild animals.

The Foreign Ministers of Quad member nations on Friday called for lasting peace in Ukraine, and said without naming Russia that the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons is "inadmissible".

The official said that three email IDs were pradeep.s@pm.o.in, hetal-gandhi@pmo.in, and indradeep.ghosh@pmo.in and they were trying to find out who were the accused behind the matter.

The Supreme Court Friday dismissed a plea by businessman Vijay Mallya, facing extradition, against proceedings in a Mumbai court to declare him a fugitive economic offender and confiscate his properties.

The Centre on Friday told the Delhi High Court that the Passport Authority in Srinagar has been directed to take a fresh decision on Peoples Democratic Party President and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti's request for issuance of passport.

The cuts amount to less than 1 per cent of Citigroup's 240,000-person workforce, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named discussing personnel information, Bloomberg reported.

In a latest development in the MGNREGA fund scam involving suspended IAS official Pooja Singhal and others, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday said that they conducted raids in Jharkhand's Hazaribagh at the premises of Mohammad Izhar Ansari and recovered cash around Rs 3.5 crore.

Five cyber criminals have been arrested for procuring the PAN Card details of 95 prominent celebrities, including Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan and former captain of the Indian cricket team MS Dhoni, and getting credit cards issued in their names, an official said on Friday.

The Raisina Dialogue, India's flagship conference on geopolitics and geoeconomics, was inaugurated by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The government, in the Union Budget for FY24, announced to open three centres of excellence for artificial intelligence (AI) at the top educational institutions, for realising the vision of "Make AI in India" and "Make AI Work for India".

The Supreme Court on Friday turned down a plea to immediately list a plea seeking permission to allow students to appear in annual examinations in Karnataka's pre-university colleges with their head scarf.

Around 200 shanties were gutted and eight people sustained minor injuries after a massive fire broke out in a slum cluster at Delhi's Sultanpuri area, said a fire department official on Friday.