Gurumurthy said that after Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel died, Nehru's tolerance towards the community also dissipated. 

“This was the helplessness of the judicial system which had very little scope to intervene in these matters,” S Gurumurthy. 

'Under Nehru, Hindus became political orphans': Author and Editor S. Gurumurthy to Republic

A 17-year-old hearing and speech impaired girl was allegedly raped by her neighbour in Madhya Pradesh's Shahdol district, police said on Saturday.

Based on a complaint lodged by the girl's mother, the police arrested the 45-year-old accused on Friday, additional superintendent of police (ASP) Anjulata Patle said.

Kotwali Police Station in-charge Raghvendra Singh said the accused allegedly visited the victim's house while her mother was away in the last few days.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal along with Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann left the Vipassana Meditation Centre in Punjab's Hoshiarpur days before his appearance before ED. He has been asked to appear before the probe agency on January 3, 2024. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday arrived in Ayodhya to inaugurate a redeveloped railway station and an airport.

He will also lay the foundation stones for a slew of development projects in Uttar Pradesh.

Following his arrival, Modi held a roadshow during which he waved at and greeted people who had gathered along its route from the airport to the railway station.

Unidentified men gunned down a village guard at Kadangband in Manipur's Imphal West district around 3.30am on Saturday, police said.

The deceased, identified as Jamesbond Ningombam, was guarding the village when he was shot dead by suspected militants from a nearby hill, they added.

Ningbom's body was taken to the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences here for post-mortem, police said.

Kadangband, located on the fringes of Imphal West district, shares boundary with Kangpokpi district which has witnessed constant violence since the ethnic strife broke out on May 3.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued a seventh summon to Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren under PMLA. The probe agency asked him to record his statement in the ongoing land scam case. 

The dense fog continued to disrupt the Delhi airport operations yet again on Saturday amid the cold wave in north India. Around 80 flights are facing delays at Indira Gandhi International Airport owing to the bad weather conditions. Residents in Delhi-NCR woke up to a foggy morning on Saturday. 

Rehearsal for Republic Day parade is underway at Kartavya Path in the national capital.

The Delhi Police have registered an FIR against unknown persons at the Tughlaq Road police station in the suspicious blast near the Israel Embassy in the national capital. The blast was reported on Tuesday, December 26.

A fortnight after Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma and his two deputies, Diya Kumari and Prem Chand Bairwa were sworn in, state cabinet expansion is likely to take place today at Raj Bhavan in Jaipur, sources said. According to the sources, around 18 to 20 MLAs will take oaths as ministers. The faces of some new and experienced MLAs will be included in Sharma's cabinet, sources said

As cold wave intensified in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut, dense fog affected visibility in the city.