Facing widespread ridicule after two of its invitees made unscientific claims during their lectures, the Indian Science Congress (ISC) has decided to go for a policy change, which will include stipulating a process of selection of speakers and vetting the content of their speech....
An Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer in West Bengal found himself in the eye of a storm on Monday after a video grab showing him and his wife mercilessly beating up a youth at a police station for making "lewd" comments on social media went viral....
High-profile Mumbai Congress politicians and former MP Priya Dutt on Monday announced that she will not contest the upcoming 2019 Lok Sabha elections, as "it was time to take a break from active politics"....
Tamil Nadu Minister for Youth Welfare and Sports Development P. Balakrishna Reddy, who was on Monday sentenced to three years' imprisonment by a special court here for damaging buses with stones in 1998, resigned from his post later in the day....
The Supreme Court on Monday took strong exception to and expressed shock over the people being arrested and prosecuted under Section 66A of the Information Technology Act -- which was junked as unconstitutional by the top court way back in 2015 -- as it sought Centre's response on a PIL by the NGO PUCL....
The Lok Sabha was on Monday adjourned for the day after witnessing three brief pre-lunch and one post-lunch session adjournments due to protests by the Samajwadi Party and Congress members over a CBI probe against former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on alleged illegal mining, and the Rafale fighter jets issue....
An invitation to noted litterateur Nayantara Sahgal to inaugurate a three-day literary event in Maharashtra this week has been withdrawn to "avoid any untoward incident", the organisers said, kicking up a huge row. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said the government should not be linked to "such unnecessary issues". ...
With an eye on the upper caste vote in the coming Lok Sabha elections, the Union Cabinet on Monday approved 10 per cent reservation for economically backward people in general category in jobs and educational institutions. The Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, took the decision to provide for 10 per cent qu...
Citing the Supreme Courts cap of 50 per cent on reservation, Congress MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi on Monday called the Modi governments move of 10 per cent reservation for economically backward upper castes in jobs and educational institutions as an "election gimmick"....
The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill has endorsed the move to legalize minority immigrants who entered Assam till December 31, 2014 but asked the government to tread with caution in view of the matter being sub judice and take all legal steps, lest it causes ...
