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Himayani Puri, daughter of Union minister Hardeep Puri, filed a ₹10 crore defamation suit over false links to Jeffrey Epstein, targeting 14 entities.

The Environment Protection Fund will now receive penalties from environmental violations to finance remediation and regulatory functions, as per new rules.

An Indian warship is escorting an Indian-flagged oil tanker out of the Gulf of Oman to the country’s west coast 

Senior Congress leader and leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Kharge sought the PM’s intervention to ensure full implementation of last year’s Supreme Court judgment granting service

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has agreed to revoke the suspension of eight Opposition MPs, including seven from the Congress.

The group travelled by bus from universities across Iran to the Iran–Armenia border, crossed into Armenia, and then flew from Yerevan to Dubai.

In a letter written to Birla, Vijender Gupta asserted that the neutrality of the Chair of the House is central to the parliamentary democracy of the country.

The USCIRF’s report, released earlier this month, criticised India for alleged violations of religious freedom and backed targeted sanctions on RSS and R&AW.

“We would like to make it categorical that no talks of any kind have taken place with any specific parties or political leaders at any level,” TVK said.

Alongside Nitish Kumar and Nitin Nabin, union minister Ram Nath Thakur and Rashtriya Lok Morcha chief Upendra Kushwaha retained their seats.