New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh government, in its first draft report of its ‘Vision Document’ on protection and preservation of the Taj Mahal submitted on Tuesday before the Supreme Court, suggested that…
Panaji, July 24 (IANS) Goa Police has registered a case of outraging the modesty of a woman against a Mangueshi temple priest, earlier accused by a US medical student of a similar offence, following a…
New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) The Travancore Devaswom Board on Tuesday cited the Islamic practice of barring women from entering mosques to justify the prohibition on women in the age group of 10 to 50…
Islamabad, July 24 (IANS) For the first time in Pakistan’s political history, the Election Commission of Pakistan has given the duty of “observers” to the members of the transgender community. The accreditation cards of the…
New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) The government has no specific data on the number of journalists killed in the country because a repository of information on crime and criminals does not collate data in categories…
New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) The newly constructed grand building at the Delhi High Court, which is equipped with microphone in each courtroom, will be inaugurated on Wednesday, it was announced on Tuesday. The new…
New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the state’s Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash to appear before a Delhi Assembly committee, assuring him that he is “adequately protected” from any punishment…
New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) The One Stop Centres (OSC), a scheme under the Nirbhaya Fund, is getting delayed in Delhi due to lack of coordination between officials of the Delhi government and the Union…
New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) Kerala MP M.B. Rajesh on Tuesday urged the central government to withdraw a bill to replace the University Grants Commission with the Higher Education Commission, saying the move will have…
New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) A court here on Tuesday issued summons to former IAF chief S.P. Tyagi and others in a money laundering case related to the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal case….
Patna, July 24 (IANS) A Bihar court on Tuesday convicted all the 15 accused in the 2012 Ara hooch tragedy in Bhojpur district of the state, which had claimed 21 lives, a government lawyer said….
New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) Improving living condition of sex workers in red light areas like GB Road, providing them better rehabilitation facilities and putting an end to the sex racket and human trafficking in…
Islamabad, July 24 (IANS) Karishna Kumari Kohli, a female senator from Pakistan’s Sindh province, became a focus of local media and people a few months back for her being the first woman lawmaker from a…
New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) The Lok Sabha on Tuesday took up the anti-corruption Bill that provides for stringent punishment to bribe givers, and extends prior nod for prosecution to former public officials. Moving the…
New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday said that it will hear the anticipatory bail plea of former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram in the INX Media money laundering case on Wednesday….
New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) The Delhi Police Commissioner on Tuesday banned flying of objects in the national capital from July 25 as a precautionary measure for the Independence Day. The order by Police Commissioner…
New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) Reiterating that 1984 Sikh riots was the biggest incident of lynching, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said the central government is taking the incidents of lynching “very seriously”…
New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to file a detailed affidavit giving “all particulars” of the steps being taken for setting up a search committee for suggesting probable…
Srinagar, July 24 (IANS) Senior Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umer Farooq was put under house arrest on Tuesday to prevent his participation in a seminar organised to mark the completion of one year in prison of…
United Nations, July 24 (IANS) Special UN Envoy to Myanmar Christine Schraner Burgener has said that the return of 900,000-plus Rohingya refugees stranded in Bangladesh to Myanmar will take time. There is no “quick fix”,…