There is no "God of war" and religion must not be used to justify violence, Pope Francis said on Tuesday, repeating recent calls for world peace....
Objecting to a section in the draft Trafficking of Persons (Prevention and Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2016, representatives of sex workers' collectives from east India on Tuesday asserted that many are involved in the business "voluntarily" and do not want to be "rescued"....
The government has initiated an "intense campaign" to free Waqf properties grabbed by "Waqf mafia" in several states, Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Tuesday....
Author and journalist Pinki Virani's recent book "Politics of the Womb: The Perils of IVF, Surrogacy and Modified Babies" grabbed headlines for its exposé of the unscrupulous practices involved in the business of "baby-making"....
Such administrative lapses are true of minor incidents of lawlessness as well like the antics of the "gau rakshaks" or the cow vigilantes, who have been running amok from Mewat in Haryana to Bengaluru in Karnataka....
Within three months of CPI-M strongman Pinarayi Vijayan taking over the reins of Kerala's administration, the spotlight has shifted from him to the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) in general and its chief, Jacob Thomas, in particular, as he has by now nailed two leading former ministers - K.M. Mani and K. Babu....
Hillary Clinton thought she would borrow a leaf from Donald Trump's book. Instead, she reached for a dictionary of insults and flung "half" of her presidential rival's supporters in a "basket of deplorables"....
Carrying the 'asthi kalash' -- pots containing the ashes of the cremated -- of 160 Pakistani Hindus, Ramnath Maharaj, a Karachi temple priest, is in India to immerse the ashes in the holy Ganga river at Haridwar....
With the Peoples Democratic Party's Srinagar MP Tariq Hameed Karra quitting the party as well as his Lok Sabha seat, the countdown may well have begun for the PDP-BJP alliance in Jammu and Kashmir....
With over 1,000 Seriously Polluting Industries (SPI) and 30 storm water drains lining the Ganga in the stretch between Haridwar and Kanpur and more than 800 million litres per day (MLD) of untreated sewage being poured into it, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has called for efforts to rejuvenate the river....
