Lucknow: An FIR was registered against Asaduddin Owaisi, president of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), in case of violation of Covid-19 rules at a rally in Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh. Owaisi had held a rally in Prayagraj on Saturday. The district administration claimed they had permitted only 100 persons at the gathering, but the number...

Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Tuesday said he would lodge an FIR against Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan for “sharing a fake video” of former AICC president Rahul Gandhi during campaigning for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. A day earlier, police had registered an FIR against Singh and 11 others for allegedly...

One of the girls who had shared screenshots of chats from the Instagram group “Bois Locker Room” alleged that she was receiving threats and offensive messages on social media, following which the Delhi Police’s Cyber Cell registered an FIR, officials said on Monday. The Instagram group was being used to share obscene messages and morphed...

In a gross violation of the government’s lockdown guidelines, around 150 people on Thursday took out a procession in Aligarh to bury a cow carcass. The police have filed an FIR against the participants of the procession, most of them women. “Around 150 people participated in a procession to bury a cow carcass in a...

A case has been registered against Congress President Sonia Gandhi in Karnataka in connection with a tweet posted on the party’s official handle alleging misuse of PM-CARES Fund, police said. The Sagara town police in Shivamogga district registered the case on Wednesday based on a complaint by Praveen K V, who alleged that @INCIndia, the...

Former Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer and social activist Kannan Gopinathan is known for his ability to ask uncomfortable questions to people in power. A down-to-earth but daring personality, he had left the administrative services as a mark of protest against the restrictions imposed by the Union government in Jammu and Kashmir following the abrogation...

Gujarat director general of police (DGP) Shivanand Jha on Wednesday warned people not to step out of their home and loiter on the streets for unnecessary reasons during the lockdown or be ready to face strict action. Jha had earlier too requested people to follow the directives issued by the government and the local authorities...

Cases have been lodged against 36 persons in Chitrakoot range for negligence after they failed to inform authorities about their participation in a congregation in Delhi’s Nizamuddin, police said. The 36 people have been quarantined. DIG, Chitrakoot range, Deepak Kumar said, “FIR has been lodged against 36 persons in Chitrakoot range and they were put...

Taking strict action against some over-enthusiastic people holding a procession during the ‘Janta Curfew’ in Ahmedabad, the city police has booked 40 people for carrying out a procession in Khadia at around 5 pm on Sunday. Notably, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked people to applause for the emergency responders who are managing the coronavirus...

Bollywood singer Kanika Kapoor, who has tested positive for the highly contagious novel coronavirus or COVID-19, has been accused of “negligence” in a First Information Report (FIR) filed by the police based on a complaint by the Chief Medical Officer of Lucknow. A dinner that she attended in Lucknow has caused a scare among several...

The woman, who lives in Agra Cantonment railway colony, had recently travelled to Italy for her honeymoon. After the couple returned, her husband tested positive for Covid-19 in Bengaluru, while she returned to her family in Agra A case was registered on Sunday against the father of a woman who tested positive for coronavirus (Covid-19)...