Vidisha: Activists of right-wing organisations allegedly created a ruckus and indulged in vandalism at a missionary school in a town in Madhya Pradesh’s Vidisha district on Monday claiming religious conversion of eight students to Christianity, a charge denied by the educational institute, police said.

NEW DELHI: Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi on Tuesday said that if the suspended Rajya Sabha MPs apologize, their suspension will be revoked.

CHENNAI: The Income Tax department on Tuesday said searches on the Saravana Super Stores and Saravana Selvarathnam groups engaged in the retail sales of jewellery, textiles and home appliances through their popular chain of stores in Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai and Tirunelveli have resulted in the seizure of Rs 10 crore in cash and jewellery/bullion worth about Rs 6 crore.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned for the month of January the plea filed by AG Perarivalan seeking release from prison based on the recommendation made by the state government in September 2018. The case relates to the premature release of seven convicts, including Perarivalan, undergoing life imprisonment in the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

BHOPAL: A 28-year-old German man, who is a researcher in virology in the European nation, has tested COVID positive in the Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh.The young researcher along with a woman colleague had arrived in Jabalpur on Sunday to attend the wedding of an Indian colleague.

New Delhi: The protesting farmer unions have reached a consensus on the future course of the agitation as nearly all their demands have been met, but a formal announcement of the decision will be made on Wednesday, farmer leader Kulwant Singh Sandhu said on Tuesday.

New Delhi: Assamese poet Nilmani Phookan Jr and Konkani writer Damodar Mauzo was awarded the Jnanpith award on Tuesday.While Damodar Mauzo received the prize for this year, Phookan won the award for last year.

Kohima: The Army made no attempt to ascertain the identity of the civilians returning from work on a pick-up truck before shooting them in Nagaland’s Mon district on Saturday, a joint report by the state’s Director General of Police (DGP) T John Longkumer and Commissioner Rovilatuo Mor has said.