The money has been paid 'as a mark of regret' and comes with an apology to long-serving councillor Gary Hopkins

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Monday hit out at the Election Commission for the 'tone and tenor' of its recent letter to his party while also urging the poll body to act against 'communal and incendiary rhetoric' allegedly used by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma during poll campaigns.

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The seventh session of the ISA Assembly, held today in New Delhi's historic Bharat Mandapam, elected its President and Co-President for a two-year term from 2024 to 2026.

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Michael Weston King has slammed the "abhorrent" attempts by Tory leaders to use the tragedy which claimed his granddaughter's life for their own political gain

Top news updates from The Hindu on November 4, 2024

Cross River State Independent Electoral Commission on Sunday declared the APC as the winner of all 18 chairmanship seats and the 196 councillorship seats.

The trial into the ghastly rape and murder of a junior woman doctor of R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital here in August this year will commence from November 11 at a special court in the West Bengal...

UDF's Priyanka Gandhi Vadra campaigns in Wayanad, highlighting connectivity issues, while LDF's Sathyan Mokeri focuses on workers' struggles.

Exclusive: 'The Monk' has been released from prison

Eighty-seven days after the body of a woman medic was found at state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, a Kolkata court on Monday framed charges against the prime accused, Sanjay Roy.

This is a review of top events which occurred in Nigeria’s south-east within the past week

RG Kar Hospital rape and murder case: Kolkata court frames charges against prime accused in RG Kar rape-murder case, sparking controversy and calls for thorough investigation.

Although the full content of the settlement agreement, which culminated in Mr Onnoghen’s acquittal on Monday, is not known yet, the legal process is rare in criminal proceedings.

Although the full content of the settlement agreement, which culminated in Mr Onnoghen’s acquittal on Monday, is not known yet, the legal process is rare in criminal proceedings.

Schoolgirl Savannah Bentham, 10, was found dead at her home in Malton, North Yorkshire, on November 1 after being attacked by the family's dog - an American Bully XL

Eight deacons ordained as priests in Syro-Malabar Church met with rebels demanding withdrawal of controversial circular.

The artwork was installed on the Hatch Farm housing development in Eastleigh, Hants, where the detached houses sell for up to £450,000.

Savannah Bentham suffered serious injuries after being attacked at about 4.15pm on Friday in Malton, Yorkshire.

A pocket watch that was frozen in time when the Titanic sunk in 1912 is set to go on sale for £80,000.

The Mirror's US editor Christopher Bucktin reports on the best of the most bizarre it-could-only-happen-in-the-USA stories in his The Buck Stops Here column. This week, Christopher worries that after Trump's social media venture nosedived on the stockmarket, we'll have to get the begging bowl out for him

Anyone who attended school in the Central Okanagan in years past can get ready for a big dose of nostalgia with the newest exhibit at the Okanagan Heritage Museum in Kelowna. 

"We are utterly shocked and devastated," said the family of Savannah Bentham

The photo was found on Lord Lucan's bed in his London flat by police officers and taken away as evidence. The black and white image has never been published before

Madras High Court committee to scrutinize Bharathiar University faculty appointments based on UGC Regulations 2016, report due in 3 months.

The $18million (£13.8m) superyacht, named Atina, sank in the Gulf of Olbia after a devastating fire broke out on board on August 10, forcing sixteen passengers and crew members to flee.

Sweden's government said it had blocked the construction of 13 offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea, after the country's military claimed they could impair defence capabilities.

Man goes on hacking spree, injuring family members, murdering man, and attacking others before arrest at Collectorate.

Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud on Monday said there was 'nothing wrong' in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to his residence on Ganpati Puja and underscored the need for a 'sense of maturity in political sphere' on such issues.

Human Rights Radio and Television (Brekete Family) suspended operations in protest of the Nigerian government’s detention of underaged children.

Violence erupts in West Bengal post-Deepavali as people defy time limits for bursting crackers, leading to arrests and injuries.

Gas leak at Victory Matriculation School in Tiruvottiyur causes students to fall ill, prompting indefinite closure and investigation.

The historic Ratelrivier farmstead in the Agulhas National Park, a Unesco World Heritage Site built in the early 1800s, was destroyed on Sunday by a fire fanned by gale-force winds.

Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha assured the newly elected legislative assembly on Monday that the Omar Abdullah government will make all efforts for the restoration of full statehood and constitutional guarantees available to the state.

Even after 14 years of the enactment of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, (RTE Act-2009), not all children are attending schools, revealed a status report titled “Implementation of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009: Where do we stand.” This was released by the Right to Education Cell (RTE Cell) and the Council for Social Development (CSD) of New Delhi.

A team led by Stanford education Assistant Professor Guilherme Lichand found the rate of physical and learning disabilities in the country's K-12 schools to be more than three times the official statistic.

Gerard Hutch, the man known as the Monk, has been released from custody in Spain.

AIPMM urges JPC chairman to address doubts over secrecy leak, seeks date to submit suggestions on Waqf Bill amendments.

Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani was executed following a two-year to save his life. He was convicted of murder after defending himself from a knife attack, human rights groups claim.

Italian police have reopened the investigation into the mysterious disappearance of the former Lady de Rothschild in an Italian snowstorm in 1980. 

Self-proclaimed businessman and alleged underworld boss Mark Lifman died in a hail of bullets on Sunday in the parking lot of the Garden Route Mall in George in the Western Cape

The dog, known as Herbie, is thought to have somehow caused the blaze by accidentally turning on the toaster. A 12-year-old, who was inside the house at the time, heard the smoke alarm going off and alerted the rest of the family

A victim of alleged child sex abuse has compared her experience of the plodding legal system to the 'trauma' of the attacks after her case was delayed by four years.

A Philadelphia family smartly held onto the 59-coin collection for more than a century. Now, their nest egg is about to pay out after their collection was professionally appraised.

Kevin Robert Fulton, 46, is on trial in the High Court at Invercargill defending a charge of manslaughter.

Kolkata, Nov 4 (IANS): The West Bengal government will have to reply to the six questions on the civic volunteers recruited in the state at a crucial hearing in the apex court on November 5 on the rape and murder of a junior doctor of R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata in August. The apex court had raised .....

Prince William holds a title aside from Prince of Wales that has a history of tragedies dating back to when it was first given out in the 17th century and it could one day be inherited by George of Louis

The BBC has been criticised for screening a new documentary about Chris Kaba just two weeks after the officer who shot him dead in 2022 was cleared of a murder charge

A posse of gang members waded into a birthday party and subjected four students to an unprovoked beating, a court has heard.  John-Boy Toa Rakete,...