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Infosys, India's top IT major, has agreed to pay $800,000 to settle allegations of misclassification of foreign workers and tax fraud. Infosys will pay California $800,000 (nearly Rs 56 crore) to resolve allegations that between 2006 and 2017, approximately 500 Infosys employees were working in the state on Infosys-sponsored B-1 visas rather than H-1B visas.

In the latest episode of Bigg Boss 13, after the second round ends, Sidharth tells Bigg Boss that none of the teams’ have tied the bell around the cat's neck. Vikas asks Shefali to leave the game but the latter denies. Mahira from the other team leaves the task but Shefali denies leaving the captaincy.

A 37-year-old woman from Jui-Kamothe village, who was set on fire by her husband after she allegedly served him a small portion of mutton, succumbed to her burn injuries at Sion hospital on December 9.

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Nearly 400 students from 19 universities across the United States, including Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Columbia, have signed a statement “condemning recent police brutality in Indian universities.” At Oxford in the United Kingdom, students carried out anti-CAA demonstrations. The students also “condemn” the use of violence against protestors in Assam where five people were killed.

Nazeer Khan, formerly of the Grenadier Infantry Regiment, was a lance naik in the Army during the Kargil war of 1999. He did not face action, but stationed in the Poonch Sector, was close enough to the theatre of war. The life of a soldier hadn’t, however, prepared him for what happened on Sunday at Jamia Millia Islamia, where he is now a security guard. “I never imagined I would be beaten up and injured by police,” the 57-year-old said on Tuesday.

A 44-year-old woman with a history of involvement in robbery and theft cases allegedly suspected her husband was tipping off cops against her and hired four contract killers to murder him. The husband survived the attack and police arrested Manjula alias Kalla Manji and her four associates.

What was intended as a perfect robbery has ended with the robber probably ruing his absent-mindedness, that could lead to him going behind bars.

A woman from Thaltej on Monday filed a complaint with city police, alleging that her husband had assaulted her simply because she woke him up when she knocked on the door, to be let in, at 11pm.

People of Indian origin who live abroad continue to find it difficult to travel to India on holidays because a change in norms regarding travel documents was not communicated in time by the ministry of home affairs to travel and tour operators and airlines in time.

Investigators probing the November 27 gang-rape, murder and burning of a veterinary doctor Disha in Hyderabad have claimed that two of the four suspects had confessed to raping and burning nine other women. The four suspects — Mohammed Areef, J Naveen, J Shiva and Ch Chennakeshavulu — were later shot dead on the outskirts of Hyderabad on Dec 6 in a police “encounter”.

A gangster accused of killing a BSP functionary was shot inside a Bijnor courtroom on Tuesday when a hearing in the case was going on. The chief judicial magistrate who was presiding over the court had a narrow escape as he dodged the bullets and was later rescued. Three assailants — including the minor son of the slain BSP politician Ehsan Ahmad — were arrested from the spot.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will significantly lower India’s growth forecast from the earlier number of 6.1% for FY20 on January 20, given the sharp slowdown in investment and easing consumption demand.

No amount of compensation can bring justice to or heal the wounds of the survivor, the court that convicted expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar said on Tuesday. The CBI, meanwhile, sought the maximum punishment of life imprisonment for Sengar a day after he was convicted of raping a minor girl from Unnao in 2017.

Investigators probing the November 27 gang-rape and murder of a veterinary doctor in Hyderabad claimed that two of the four suspects had confessed to raping and burning nine other women. ​​A team from Cyberabad police is camping in Karnataka to piece together some of the cases as the crimes allegedly took place in the Telangana-Karnataka border areas.

Opposition parties knocked on the doors of President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday and sought his intervention on violence in central universities over protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Representatives of at least 12 parties, including Congress, CPM, CPI, DMK, SP, TMC, RJD, National Conference, IUML and AIUDF were part of the delegation.

PM Modi on Tuesday launched an all-out attack against Congress and other opposition parties over the new citizenship law, challenging them to offer Indian nationality to all Pakistanis. He also dared them to invalidate the law banning triple talaq and revive Article 370 in J&K. "Let them say that, and the country will teach them a lesson," he said at a campaign rally in Jharkhand.