News updates LIVE: Alipore court issues arrest warrant against Indian cricketer Mohammad Shami

The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Uttar Pradesh government to set up a Special Investigating Team (SIT) to probe sexual harassment allegations made by a law student against former union minister Swami Chinmayanand.

A police officer of Inspector General rank will head the SIT.

The top court transferred the matter to Allahabad High Court for monitoring.

The apex court also asked Allahabad High Court to monitor the probe on complaint filed by the student and directed the Chief Secretary of the state to provide securtiy to the girl and her parents.

The Supreme Court took up the matter after a group of lawyers wrote to Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi on Thursday.

The girl student, who went missing after levelling sexual harassment charges against the BJP leader, was later traced to Rajasthan on Friday and produced within hours before the Supreme Court.

Alipore court, West Bengal has issued arrest warrant against Indian cricketer Mohammad Shami and his brother Hasid Ahmed in connection with domestic violence case filed by his wife Hasin Jahan.

Services on the Delhi Metro's Yellow Line between Huda City Centre and Samaypur Badli stations were affected on Monday evening due to "signalling issues", an official said

Explosion reported on the outskirts of Kunduz city, Afghanistan. Sources say it has left six security force members dead.

Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh cadre Abul Kashem was arrested from Canal East Road near Gaznabi Bridge

The bodies of three factory workers were found on Monday in a room in a slum locality in the Union Territory of Daman and Diu, police said, adding that the deaths may have been due to food poisoning.

West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh has asked for Assam-like NRC (National Register of Citizens) to be conducted in West Bengal too.

The final NRC list in Assam published on August 31 has excluded over 19 lakh people.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be on a two-day visit to Guwahati in Assam from September 8 to attend North East Council Meeting.

The visit assumes significance in the context of recently concluded NRC final list in which over 19 lakh people have been excluded.

The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the Punjab and Haryana High Court order imposing a fine of Rs 10 lakh each on activists Tehseen Poonawalla and music composer and singer Vishal Dadlani for mocking Jain monk Tarun Sagar.

Dadlani and Poonawalla were booked by the Haryana Police in August 2016 in Ambala Cantonment for hurting the religious sentiments of the Jain community.

They had made comments on social media in August 2016 after the Haryana government had invited Jain monk, Muni Tarun Sagar, to address the Haryana Assembly on August 25, 2016. Both had moved the High Court for quashing the FIR in September 2016.

The BJP activists on Monday put up road blockades and squatted on railway tracks at multiple places in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas as part of the 12-hour bandh

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has recorded the statement of Unnao rape survivor, at AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) Delhi, reports ANI

Security threat in Parliament: Intruder nabbed while trying to enter the Parliament with a knife.

The meeting between India's Deputy High Commissioner to Pakistan, Gaurav Ahluwalia and Ministry of Foreign Affairs's (MoFA) Mohammad Faisal, begins, reports ANI

Reporter who exposed “namak-roti” mid-day meal booked. The reporter and 2 others have been charged with criminal conspiracy. DM ordered a probe into the matter but the reporter has been accused of cooking up the facts, reports CNN News18

May Lord Ganesha remove all the obstacles and sufferings and usher in wisdom, prosperity and good fortune for all the countrymen, wished the senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi on occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi

Immunisation Officer, KC Verma says "The vaccine has been kept aside, it will be inspected. If someone is found to be at fault, action will be taken."