Chandigarh, March 28 (IANS) The Haryana cabinet on Monday cleared the bill that proposes to provide reservation to five communities, including the politically-dominant Jat community. The bill is likely to be brought in the state…
By Sahana Ghosh Hyderabad, March 27 (IANS) If India strives to “get it right” for its children in their first decade — ensure nutrition, health, sleep, education — when they are most vulnerable to trauma,…
United Nations, March 26 (IANS) Indian-origin law professor Surya Deva has been appointed by the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council as an adviser on human rights and multinationals and businesses. The Council approved in Geneva…
Hyderabad: Students demonstrate against Hyderabad University Vice-Chancellor P. Appa Rao after he returned from a nearly two-month leave in Hyderabad, on March 22, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Hyderabad, March 26 (IANS) Policemen, who cracked down on…
Howrah: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee with Vaishali Dalmiya, daughter of Jagmohan Dalmiya and cricketer turned politician Laxmi Ratan Shukla during an election campaign in Howrah of West Bengal on…
Golaghat: Prime Minister Narendra Modi with AGP leaders PK Mahanta and Atul Bora during a BJP rally at Bokakhat in Golaghat district of Assam on March 26, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Bihpuria (Assam), March 26 (IANS)…
Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh), March 26 (IANS) A local CBI court on Saturday extended by three days the judicial custody of former Noida Chief Engineer Yadav Singh who was arrested last month by the agency on…
Washington, March 26 (IANS) A high-ranking US Navy captain has been sentenced to nearly four years in jail for passing classified information to a Malaysian defence contractor. Daniel Dusek provided the information in exchange for…
New Delhi, March 25 (IANS) Taking suo motu cognizance of media reports that there was an emergency like situation in the University of Hyderabad, the NHRC on Friday issued notices to the HRD ministry, Telangana…
Noida: People throng the office of Ringing Bell to buy its newly launched “Freedom 251” smartphone on Feb 18, 2016. The Noida-based startup’ website to crash within hours of opening up for pre-order. It claims…
Gurgaon, March 25 (IANS) Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Friday did not appear before the one-man Commission of Inquiry probing the grant of licences to some entities in Gurgaon’s Sector 83, including…
Gurgaon, March 25 (IANS) The state information commissioner in Haryana has issued show cause notice to public information officer-cum-Gurgaon deputy district education officer (DEO) for not replying to a RTI request filed by an activist….
Imphal, March 25 (IANS) Manipur Police are looking for an advocate who forged a court order to draw Rs.17 lakh from the pension account of a former state legislator who had died 14 years ago….
Edinburgh, March 25 (IANS) A religious leader at Scotland’s biggest mosque has praised an extremist who was executed for murdering the governor of Pakistan’s Punjab province, the BBC reported on Friday. Imam Maulana Habib Ur…
Mumbai, March 25 (IANS) Pakistani-American LeT terrorist-turned-approver David Coleman Headley said on Friday that former Pakistan prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani visited his house to pay condolences a few weeks after his father’s death on…
Tokyo, March 25 (IANS) Japanese authorities on Friday hanged two death row inmates, bringing the total number of executions carried out by the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to 16. Yasutoshi Kamata, 74, was…
Beijing, March 25 (IANS) Chinese mothers in Beijing who bear the second child are set to get an extended maternity leave of up to three months, the media reported on Friday. A revised regulation on…
Mumbai, March 25 (IANS) Pakistani-American LeT terrorist-turned-approver David Coleman Headley said here on Friday that he nursed a hatred towards India and Indians since December 1971 when his school was bombed by Indian fighter planes…
Panaji, March 25 (IANS) Even as pressure builds up on the BJP-led state government to resume mining and iron ore transportation after four years of inactivity, a brutal attack in judicial lock-up on a tribal…
Washington, March 25 (IANS) A federal judge in San Francisco gave Volkswagen an additional month — till April 21 — to come up with a solution for around 600,000 diesel vehicles sold in the US…