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Doctors and medical students of Safdarjung Hospital, AIIMS and MAMC are staging a massive protest against the sexual assault and murder of a post-graduate trainee doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.

According to officials, these were recovered in a police operation earlier this morning in the Bilasiguri-Batasipur village under the jurisdiction of Dhekiajuli police station in the district.

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a petition challenging the cancellation of the UGC-NET 2024 (University Grants Commission-National Eligibility Test) examination on the basis of alleged paper leaks.

Amid massive protests over the rape and murder of a trainee doctor on the campus, the principal of Kolkata-based R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital, Dr Sandip Ghosh, on Monday resigned, appealing to the protesting medical students and house-staff to withdraw their demonstrations.

Ahead of Independence Day, a massive ‘Tiranga’ rally was held in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar district on Monday with thousands of people participating in it.

At least seven people, including six women, were dead and over a dozen people were injured in a stampede at Baba Siddheshwar Nath Temple located at Vanavar hills in Bihar's Jehanabad district on early Monday morning.

Public order in the UK has stabilised after days of violent far-right protests, the authorities have said. But they warned that the impact of the unrest will be felt for months and even years.

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian and Charles Michel, the president of the European Council, have exchanged views on the resumption of the talks on the revival of a 2015 nuclear deal.

It also prompted district administrations to announce the closure of schools in Jaipur, Jaipur Rural, Dausa, Karauli, Sawai Madhopur, Gangapur and Bharatpur on Monday.

There have been reports of widespread and targeted violence against the Hindus in Bangladesh, with the matter being taken note by the UN which called out the interim Bangladeshi government led by Mohammed Yunus to safeguard the minorities.

CM Dr Saha on Sunday inaugurated a Blood Donation Camp organized by Kshudiram Social Society at Agartala Melarmath. The blood donation camp was organised on the occasion of revolutionary Kshudiram Bose's death anniversary.

CM Dr Saha accompanied by the dignitaries participated in the Vishwashanti Yogya. The inauguration also featured tree plantation programs and blood donation camps within the temple premises.

The Bhavan’s Tripura Vidya Mandir (BTVM) on Saturday organised a felicitation programme to felicitate the students from Nursery to Class-III for their excellence in academics and also the 100% attendance holders from Nursery to Class-V.

Expressing solidarity and protesting the killing of journalists, attacks and action against media persons in violence-torn Bangladesh, senior journalists and members of the Agartala Press Club on Sunday held a protest.

External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar said on Sunday the Maldives is a key partner to India in the Indian Ocean region and at the heart of its neighbourhood first policy.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday released 109 high-yielding, climate-resilient, and biofortified varieties of crops at the India Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi.

Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has revealed that she could have remained in power if she had "surrendered" the sovereignty of Saint Martin Island and "allowed America to hold sway over the Bay of Bengal", media reports said.

Former Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Sunday said that nothing in the new Hindenberg report is credible and the Congress party, over the last 10 years, has adopted a strategy of politics of lies and is now seeking foreign help to destabilise the country's financial system.

Questions have started surfacing on whether the alleged rape and murder of a doctor at the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital was the handiwork of a single person or were his associates also involved.

In a stock exchange filing, the Group completely rejected these allegations “which are a recycling of discredited claims that have been thoroughly investigated, proven to be baseless and already dismissed by the Honourable Supreme Court in January 2024”.

After a man was arrested in the rape and murder of a woman doctor at the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital here, questions are surfacing on how the accused, as a mere civic volunteer, enjoyed certain privileges and freedom of movement like the regular policemen.

The markets regulator last month said that Hindenburg and Anderson violated regulations under ‘SEBI’s Prevention of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices' regulations, and 'SEBI's Code of Conduct for Research Analyst' regulations.

One of the two civilians injured in an encounter between the security forces and terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district, succumbed to critical injuries in the hospital on Sunday. 

Delhi's Matka Peer Dargah chief Sufi Shakeel Ahmed Qadri has termed the Waqf (Amendment) Bill "corrective" measures while Syed Javed Qutbi, the chief of Dargah Hazrat Syed Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki,  has said it will give Muslims their complete rights.

Over the past seven-and-a-half years, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has allocated more than Rs 2,900 crore to aid those affected by floods, officials have said.