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The EC's advisory asked the media, both electronic and print, to 'refrain' from airing and publishing such programmes during the prohibited period to ensure free, fair and transparent polls.

The plea said as the pronouncement of triple talaq is already declared void, the provision in law to penalise such an act is onerous and inconsequential.

Oscarwinning filmmaker Roman Polanski returned to Poland, the country of his youth, and paid tribute on Thursday to a Polish couple who took him in and protected him when he was a child, saving him from the Holocaust.

I-League Qualifiers: Garhwal FC play their final match of the tournament against ARA FC.

Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler of Georgia enthusiastically accepted an endorsement Thursday from Marjorie Taylor Greene, a congressional candidate who embraced QAnon conspiracy theories and espoused racist views in a series of online videos.

Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli won the toss and opted to bat against Kings XI Punjab in an IPL match here on Thursday. RCB named an unchanged team while KXIP brought in Chris Gayle for the first time this season besides handing a debut...

Residents packed a town hall in a tiny western Minnesota community to voice opposition to plans by a controversial Nordic heritage church that has been identified as a white supremacist group.

A Chinese drug developer is offering an experimental coronavirus vaccine to students going abroad in a strategy health experts say raises safety and ethical concerns.

Barisha Club Durga Puja committee in Behala, Kolkata has decided to replace the traditional idol of Durga this year with an idol of a migrant worker and mother with a child on her hip.

A court in Maharashtra's Thane has sentenced a 37-year-old tribal man from neighbouring Palghar district to life imprisonment for killing a woman. In the order passed on Wednesday, district and additional sessions judge R R Vaishnav also imposed a fine...

BJP spokesperson Rajeev Chandrasekhar said the commission has pointed out in its report that over 29,000 acres of waqf land in Karnataka were "surreptitiously and illegally" transferred for commercial use.

BJP MLA Atul Bhatkhalkar on Thursday wrote a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray asking him to show courage to shut down the state- funded madrasas and prove his "Hindutva credentials". The BJP has escalated its attack on Thackeray fol...

A satellite TV channel run by Yemen's Houthi rebels broadcast the start of a longawaited prisoner exchange on Thursday between the country's warring sides, as three planes carrying freed Houthi prisoners touched down in the rebelheld capital of Sanaa.

Police said the incident took place at a village under the Satrikh police station area and it seemed the victim was strangled.

Veteran sports journalist and cricket commentator Kishore Bhimani died at the age of 74, family sources said on Thursday. He is survived by his wife Rita and son Gautam who is also a well-known TV personality.

His statement comes a day after the state government announced a probe into the Jalyukt Shivar scheme launched by the earlier Devendra Fadnavis-led dispensation.