Violent crimes against women and girls were increasing by the day as Tamil Nadu has come under the grip of alcohol, BJP state chief Nainar Nagenthran alleged on Monday.

Expressing shock over an alleged sexual assault of a 7-year-old girl by an intoxicated youth near Kulithalai in Karur district, he said women and girls were falling victims to youngsters who were coming under the influence of alcohol.

Infrastructure major Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Monday said it has bagged a "significant" order for the Hyderabad Greenfield Radial Road project.

The contract, awarded to L&T's transportation infrastructure business vertical, covers the second phase of the project in Ranga Reddy district.

L&T classifies an order amount ranging between Rs 1,000 cr to Rs 2,500 cr as 'significant'.

The Andhra Pradesh government has approved a policy allowing qualified postgraduate Ayurvedic doctors to independently perform select surgical procedures in the state. The decision has triggered strong opposition from the Indian Medical Association (IMA), which has raised concerns over patient safety, medical training standards and the legal validity of the move, particularly as the issue remains pending before the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court on Monday stayed its earlier ruling on the Aravalli Hills, saying it needs to clarify certain aspects of the definitions it had approved last month. The court said the stay was necessary to remove confusion over how the Aravalli hills and ranges have been identified, Bar and Bench reported.

The Supreme Court on Monday stayed a Delhi High Court order that granted bail to former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the 2017 Unnao rape case, Bar and Bench reported.

The matter was heard by a vacation bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justices J K Maheshwari and Augustine George Masih.

Former Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman Lalit Modi has issued “deepest apologies” to the Indian government after a video showing him partying with fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya in London went viral.

In the clip, the two men introduced themselves as the “biggest fugitives of India”, a remark that sparked widespread criticism online.

Top Congress leaders on Saturday are attending a crucial meeting of the working committee, the party's highest decision-making body.

They are deliberating on the current political situation in the country and the party's further action against the government after it replaced the UPA-era rural employment scheme Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (MGNREGA) with the new Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act (VB-G RAM G).

Delhi’s air quality deteriorated sharply once again on Saturday, with Air Quality Index (AQI) slipping back into the ‘very poor’ and ‘severe’ categories after a brief improvement earlier in the week. A thick layer of smog coupled with dense winter fog enveloped large parts of the national capital, triggering health concerns and impacting daily life.

Inflows into mutual fund (MF) schemes via systematic investment plans (SIPs) have topped ₹3 trillion for the first time in a calendar year, as investors increasingly rely on the staggered investment route amid market volatility.

Investors put ₹3.04 trillion into MF schemes through SIPs until November this year, as against ₹2.69 trillion in the entire 2024, data from the Association of Mutual Funds in India (Amfi) shows.

India on Friday condemned the killing of Dipu Chandra Das, stating that over 2,900 incidents of violence against minorities have been reported in Bangladesh during the tenure of the interim government led by Muhammad Yunus.

Speaking at the weekly media briefing, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said.

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