St. Petersburg, Sep 21 (IANS) Former Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Friday said women in India continue to be the “casualties of paternalistic traditions” and still suffer the brunt of discrimination and gender inequality. She…
Shillong, Sep 21 (IANS) Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Friday introduced the Meghalaya Protection of Interest of Depositors (in Financial Establishments) Bill, 2018 to protect the public from any fraudulent intention of the financial…
New Delhi, Sep 21 (IANS) The CBI on Friday described the complaint by its Special Director Rakesh Asthana to the CVC against its chief Alok Verma as “malicious” and “frivolous” and said that the complaint…
Mumbai, Sep 21 (IANS) A day after 30 passengers of a Jet Airways flight suffered bleeding through ears and nose, a Mumbai activist on Friday asked the police to book the airline for ‘attempted murder’….
By Parmod Kumar New Delhi, Sep 21 (IANS) The Supreme Court is likely to pronounce next week a spate of judgement including on Aadhaar, Ayodhya and adultery that would have bearings on the right to…
New Delhi, Sep 21 (IANS) The Supreme Court has agreed that Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used in the process of verification of medical colleges by the Medical Council of India (MCI). The apex court…
Patna, Sep 21 (IANS) Police on Friday issued an arrest warrant against former Bihar Minister Manju Verma’s husband in an arms case related to a raid connected to the Muzaffarpur home rape horror. At least…
Shimla, Sep 21 (IANS) For the last two years, the civic body of the Baddi town, Himachal Pradesh’s biggest industrial hub, has been dumping municipal waste in Kenduwal village that has become a potential health…
New Delhi, Sep 21 (IANS) While India is registering a strong commitment towards gender budgeting, the country has a low percentage of women in its Parliament, presenting a ‘mixed picture’ for gender equality progress, according…
Tripunithura (Kerala) Sep 21 (IANS) The Kerala Police began questioning Bishop Franco Mulakkal, accused of raping a nun, for the third consecutive day on Friday, even as demands for his arrest grew. Mulakkal has been…
New York, Sep 21 (IANS) New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan has named a retired Federal Judge to conduct an “independent, scrupulous” review of the cases of sexual abuse the Catholic Church is facing and recommend…
By Arul Louis United Nations, Sep 21 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for intensifying the war on illegal financial transfers, money laundering and tax evasion as one of the ways to ensure countries…
By Arul Louis United Nations, Sep 21 (IANS) While India has taken tremendous strides in combating poverty in the past decade, Muslims, members of the Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Dalits saw the most progress in…
Lucknow, Sep 20 (IANS) The Allahabad High Court on Thursday sought the progress report of a vigilance probe into an alleged multi-crore scam in the building of monuments and parks when Mayawati was the Uttar…
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) In a first, the government on Thursday came out with a National Database on Sexual Offenders (NDSO), containing a list of 4.5 lakh convicts with photos of about 3.5 lakh…
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday suggested to the Centre to appoint Lt General Manomoy Ganguly as the Director General Medical Services (Air Force), observing that he was being deprived of…
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) A number of Muslim organisations on Thursday slammed the triple talaq ordinance, calling it politically motivated and “unacceptable”. Jamat-e-Islami Hind President Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari in a statement said that…
Patna, Sep 20 (IANS) Activists from various upper caste organisations on Thursday protested against the amended SC/ST Act. The protesters expressed their anger towards the Central government and staged protests in front of Bharatiya Janata…
By Vishal Narayan New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) The National Law University-Delhi (NLU-D) on Thursday withdrew an advertisement it had issued a day earlier inviting applications for the position of Research Fellows for the ‘Office…
By Anand Singh New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) A United Arab Emirates (UAE) court has favoured extradition of British national, Christian Michel James, one of the key middlemen wanted by the Indian investigative agencies in…