Highlights: JP Nadda forms 5-member committee to probe violence against BJP workers in Bengal

BJP national president JP Nadda has formed a five member committee to probe violence against their workers in Bengal. The committee includes BJP leader and former union minister Rajyavardhan Rathore and former Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar.

UP Lakhimpur Kheri minor girls death | All 6 accused sent to 14-day judicial custody. They have been brought to Lakhimpur Kheri District Jail.

PM Modi landed at Samarkand for SCO Summit, welcomed by Uzbek PM Abdulla Aripov.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has landed in Uzbekistan for the SCO Summit. He is set to meet Russian president Vladimir Putin tomorrow.

Delhi reports 116 fresh Covid-19 cases, 142 recoveries and 3 deaths in the last 24 hours.

Prime minister Narendra Modi has left for Uzbekistan to attend SCO Summit.

CBI takes over Sonali Phogat death case from Goa Police, registers case.

Karnataka legislative council on Thursday passed the anti-conversion bill by voice vote after Congress staged a walkout.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah holds a meeting with Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma and Arunachal Pradesh CM Pema Khandu on border-related issues of both states.

Centre signs peace deal with eight Adivasi terror outfits from Assam; ₹1000 cr package announced.

Rahul Gandhi doesn't have much knowledge of the northeast, let alone Arunachal. He raises such issues of the northeast on which he doesn't have in-depth knowledge: Arunachal Pradesh CM Pema Khandu on Congress MP Rahul Gandhi's tweet on China

Family members of the two deceased girls in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri on Thursday refused to cremate the bodies until their demands were fulfilled.

They demanded ₹1 crore compensation, a government job for the brother of the deceased girls and death penalty for the accused.

Singer Daler Mehndi gets bail in 2003 human trafficking case.

The Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park (PNHZP) in West Bengal's Darjeeling has been adjudged the best zoo in the country, while Kolkata's Alipore Zoological Garden has secured the fourth position.

Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren meets Governor Ramesh Bais, requests to make public the ECI opinion on his office of profit row.

Closing bell: Sensex drops by nearly 413 points to end at 59,934; Nifty over 17,870

Congress leader DK Shivakumar said that ED has summoned him amid the Bharat Jodo Yatra.

Nitish Kumar promises special category status to all backward states if non-BJP parties form govt at Centre, reports PTI.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi attacks BJP over alleged kidnapping and murder of two Dalit girls in UP's Lakhimpur Kheri, says women's security cannot be expected from those facilitating release of rapists.

EU commission president Ursula von der Leyen said Thursday she was in Kyiv for meetings with officials, including President Volodymyr Zelensky, to discuss closer cooperation between Ukraine and the European Union.

"In Kyiv, for my 3rd visit since the start of Russia's war. So much has changed. Ukraine is now an EU candidate. I'll discuss with Zelensky and (Prime Minister) Denys Shmygal how to continue getting our economies and people closer while Ukraine progresses towards accession," she said in a statement on social media.

Former Gujarat home minister Vipul Chaudhary detained by ACB for 'financial irregularities' at Dudhsagar Dairy.

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant met Governor P S Sreedharan Pillai on Thursday morning amid talk of a cabinet reshuffle in the wake of eight Congress MLAs joining the ruling BJP.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will have a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the 22nd Summit of the Council of Heads of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Member States (SCO-CoHS) in Samarkand in Uzbekistan, Russian Ambassador to India Denis Alipov said on Thursday.
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UP Board of Madrasa Education team surveys Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama, one of oldest Islamic seminary in state.

Karnataka govt to table the anti-conversion bill in the Karnataka Legislative Council today, after it being passed in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly.