The Madras High Court Bench in Madurai on Tuesday ordered award of additional 196 marks to those who had given the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) in Tamil as 49 questions were wrong....
India has accused UN Human Rights Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein of exhibiting "clear bias" in his report on Kashmir and criticised Secretary-General Antonio Guterres of overstepping his mandate in his report on children in armed conflict....
US President Donald Trump has picked Brett Kavanaugh, a federal appeals court judge with extensive legal credentials and a lengthy political record, to succeed Justice Anthony M. Kennedy in the Supreme Court. ...
An airplane at Netherlands' Eindhoven Airport has been evacuated due to a bomb threat, Dutch television NOS reported. ...
Accusing the BJP of practising politics of "hate and violence", the Congress on Monday said that mob lynching incidents have gone up by over four times in 2017 while 61 such incidents had taken place this year. ...
Dubbing female genital mutilation as violative of bodily integrity of a girl child, the Supreme Court on Monday said that religious practices cannot be cited to justify such mutilation in the Dawoodi Bohra community....
Firebrand Gujarat Dalit activist and legislator Jignesh Mevani on Monday expressed his support to Patidar leader Hardik Patel, who is set to launch a fast unto death next month to press for his demand for reservations to his community, but appealed to him to go in for an indefinite 'dharna' (sit-in) instead....
Following a complaint of harassment filed against the special investigation team (SIT) by one of the accused in the gruesome rape and murder of a eight-year-old minor nomadic girl in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district, a court in this Punjab town on Monday referred it to the Jammu and Kashmir's Director General of Police for inve...
The BJP on Monday rejected its ally JD-U's contention of playing the role of a big brother in the state and that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will be the NDA face in Bihar during the 2019 general elections....
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his government's promise of doubling farmers' incomes, citing a report where a Chhattisgarh sarpanch claims that officials from Delhi taught a woman farmer to tell Modi she now earns twice as much....
