New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday protested outside nearly 60 stations of the Delhi Metro, raising slogans against the recent fare hike. The party, which is in power in…
Mumbai, Oct 11 (IANS) The Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) and Mumbai Regional Congreas Committee (MRCC) on Wednesday passed a unanimous resolution demanding that party Vice President Rahul Gandhi should be elevated as the Congress…
New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its verdict on a plea to allow “living will” that would authorise the withdrawal of all life support systems to a patient if in…
New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) In another move to boost natural gas use in India, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved signing of an agreement with Japan towards joint development of a liquid and flexible…
New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday approved the revision of pay scales for about eight lakh teachers and other academic staff in higher educational institutions…
Rome, Oct 11 (IANS/AKI) Interior Ministers from the G7 group of industrialised nations and top European Union officials will meet in Italy next week to forge ways of combating jihadist foreign fighters and the use…
New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) A nine-member Delhi assembly committee will look into the constitutionality of Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal’s move to write a message to the house without the aid of the council of…
New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) Veteran India pacer Ashish Nehra said on Wednesday that he may hang up his boots after the first Twenty20 International (T20I) against New Zealand at the Feroz Shah Kotla here…
New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that it would decide whether the documents submitted by the CBI in a sealed cover could be relied upon in deciding the validity of…
Bhopal, Oct 11 (IANS) The RSS will consider holding separate shakhas for its women cadre, a top Sangh official said on Wednesday, a day after Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi accused the organisation of having…
New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) With India planning to roll out a new data protection regime following the landmark Supreme Court judgment upholding right to privacy as fundamental right, experts have cautioned that the new…
Chandigarh, Oct 11 (IANS) The Haryana Congress on Wednesday passed an unanimous resolution seeking the elevation of Vice President Rahul Gandhi as the party President. The resolution, passed in the presence of senior Congress leaders…
Ahmedabad, Oct 11 (IANS) The Gujarat High Court has ruled that the burning of a train coach at Godhra in Gujarat in 2002 which killed 59 persons was neither “terrorism” nor an “act of waging…
Thane (Maharashtra), Oct 11 (IANS) The Thane Police on Wednesday slapped MCOCA against five accused, including absconding mafia don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar’s younger brother Iqbal Kaskar and aide Chhota Shakeel in an extortion case. “We…
New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) The NIA on Wednesday said the Juvenile Justice Board in Patna has found a juvenile guilty of conspiracy in the Patna and Bodhgaya serial bomb blasts in Bihar and remanded…
New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday said sex with wife below 18 years of age is rape, striking down the provision of criminal law that permitted sex with a wife aged…
Chandigarh, Oct 11 (IANS) A total of 56 per cent of registered voters exercised their franchise on Wednesday in the by-election to the Gurdaspur Lok Sabha constituency, election officials said. Punjab Chief Electoral Officer V.K….
Mumbai, Oct 11 (IANS) An official probe into the September 29 stampede in Mumbai on Wednesday gave a clean chit to Western Railway (WR) officials, but instead blamed heavy rain and rumours for the tragedy…
Madrid, Oct 11 (IANS) Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Wednesday asked Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont to clarify whether he has actually declared independence as Madrid considers the unprecedented step of suspending the region’s autonomy….
By Sarwar Kashani New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling Wednesday criminalising sex with wife below 18 has cleared an inconsistency in laws that differed over the legal age of sexual consent….