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According to data provided by Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, the trend is alarming; although there was a slight decrease in the number of deaths in 2021, the figures have steadily increased since then, reaching a staggering 2,385 deaths in 2024 alone.

The Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir faced one of the most horrific terror attacks in recent history in 2019. As many as 40 CRPF personnel were killed when their convoy was targeted on the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway on February 14 that year, marking the day as the "Black Day."

Top FBI official C Barnacle Jr highlighted that this case represents a foreign adversary’s attempt to silence a critic of the Indian government on American soil, framing the incident as an act of transnational repression.

TRAI will add an appeal feature to its DND app, enabling consumers to escalate unresolved complaints, and plans to launch a redesigned MyCall app in March for call-quality grievances. The regulator also unveiled revamped DND and MySpeed apps with multilingual support and enhanced user features.

Parliament's Budget Session Phase 1 ends amid row over India-US trade deal & Naravane memoir; adjourns till March 9. Centre backs Dubey motion against Rahul; he meets farmers to plan stir.

This extension is in response to the NIA's plea for an extension beyond the usual 90 days, as outlined in the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. The ongoing investigation seeks further insight into the explosion that tragically killed 15 people outside the historic Red Fort.

The Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Burns Surgery at AIIMS has initiated the process of setting up a registry of patients having severe facial deformity along with the loss of vital functions of the face like breathing, mouth opening and blinking and have not benefited despite multiple surgical procedures.

Concluding arguments in the case, the government told a Bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and PB Varale that Wanghcuk's detention arrested the violence in Ladakh and this proved that the detention was justified.After the detention, complete agitation and violence came under control, government said.

Based on data received from the Supreme Court, the Minister of State for Law and Justice Arjun Ram Meghwal submitted a written response stating that 8,360 complaints were received between 2016-2025.The highest number of such complaints  were reported in the year 2024 at 1170 followed by 11o2 in 2025 while as in the year 2020 only 518 such complaints were registered.  

The Union Cabinet is likely to clear a ₹18,600-crore twin-tube road-cum-rail tunnel under the Brahmaputra connecting Gohpur and Numaligarh, slashing travel time to 30 minutes and boosting strategic mobility in poll-bound Assam ahead of Assembly elections.

He cited that the existing rules and laws already govern such matters, including the Official Secrets Act (OSA), adding that the key issue was not the absence of guidelines, but whether any existing rules had been bypassed.

The Centre has approved Rs 747.72 cr for 26 road & bridge projects in Assam under CRIF & Setu Bandhan: Rs 617.98 cr for 10 roads, Rs 129.74 cr for 16 bridges to boost connectivity.