New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission on Monday issued notice to Tamil Nadu over the alleged honour killing of a young Dalit man who married an upper caste Hindu woman. According…
Srinagar, March 14 (IANS) The “Karvan-e-Aman” (Peace Bus Service) between parts of divided Jammu and Kashmir was cancelled on Monday due to bad weather, an official said. “The Karvan-e-Aman bus service between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad…
New Delhi: Union Minister for Railways Suresh Prabhu addresses at the signing ceremony of an MoU between Ministry of Railways and State Government of Chhattisgarh for formation of JV Company, in New Delhi on Feb…
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday took a jibe at Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi’s recent ‘Fair and Lovely Yojana’ comment, saying it was politically incorrect. “I have heard the…
Union Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs, and Information and Broadcasting Arun Jaitley (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday said the government stood by its commitment for the “equitable…
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) The government has not received any proposal to open a Madame Tussauds wax museum here, Culture and Tourism Minister Mahesh Sharma said on Monday. In a written reply to the…
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) The government does not intend to constitute national heritage sites commission, parliament was told on Monday. Culture and Tourism Minister Mahesh Sharma told the Lok Sabha in a written reply,…
Guwahati, March 14 (IANS) The AIUDF of Lok Sabha member Maulana Badruddin Ajmal has offered its workers insurance against election-related violence in Assam. All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) leader and Lok Sabha member from…
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) Pakistan former ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani will not attend ‘Spring Fever’, touted as one of Delhi’s oldest literary and cultural festival, which begins on Tuesday, said organisers. Citing…
Kolkata, March 14 (IANS) In the wake of a sting operation claiming several leaders of West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress purportedly accepting bribe, the opposition Left Front on Monday demanded the Election Commission to initiate…
Kolkata: BJP leaders Siddharth Nath Singh and Dilip Ghosh show videos from a sting operation conducted on Trinamool leaders during a press conference in Kolkata, on March 14, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Kolkata, March 14…
Bhopal, March 14 (IANS) A Dalit student pursuing M.Phil at the Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication here on Monday accused its authorities of harassing more than 100 students belonging to the weaker…
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) The Ethics Committee of the Rajya Sabha on Monday took cognizance of the issue of Vijay Mallya, an independent member of the upper house and business tycoon accused of defaulting…
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) The government has sought reports from states about damage to crops following heavy rainfall and hailstorm in some parts of northern India, union Minister Radha Mohan Singh said on Monday….
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday pitched for more funds to the Indian Railways to improve its infrastructure across the country. “It’s a subject which needs lots of money,”…
Gurgaon, March 14 (IANS) A 26-year-old woman was on Monday arrested for creating ruckus and abusing staff at the office of the Gurgaon Police Commissioner alleging that police refused to act on her complaint. The…
Chennai, March 14 (IANS) Police on Monday detained four of the suspects accused of hacking to death a young Dalit man who married an upper caste girl, who herself narrowly survived the brutal assault in…
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday asked the central government as to why it was not making functional or upgrading its own vaccines manufacturing units, and instead procuring the vaccines from…
By Sanu George Thiruvananthapuram, March 14 (IANS) Pulluvila, a sleepy hamlet located close to the airport here, has earned a place for itself on the global sanitation map — it boasts of the worlds first…
Mumbai: File photo of Ishrat Jahan who was named as a suicide bomber for the terror outfit Laskhar-e-Taiba by David Coleman Headley during his video-link deposition at TADA court in Mumbai on Feb. 11, 2016….