Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said his government will plan a campaign involving people to fight against the menace of foeticide and dowry....
JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar's grandfather on Tuesday moved a court in Bihar against two persons regarding rewards offered for chopping Kanhaiya's tongue or killing him, a government lawyer said....
The Indian Army's decision to make pontoon bridges for the Art of Living Foundation's upcoming World Culture Festival was taken after Delhi Police expressed a fear of stampede at the venue, where around 30 lakh people are expected, a source close to Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar told IANS....
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said the government was withdrawing one of the much-resisted budget proposals to partially tax withdrawals from the employees' provident fund accounts. "A number of representations have been received from various sections of the society, including members of parliament, suggesting that this change will force p...
Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday sought early passage of a bill that seeks to reserve one third of legislative seats in India for women. "The long-awaited Women's Reservation Bill requires the government's attention," Sonia said while speaking in the Lok Sabha as the world celebrated the International Women's Day on Tuesday. Sonia Gand...
Ensuring women's safety in public places will go a long way in giving them equal space in the decision making process, say women MPs cutting across party lines as Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for moving beyond "women development" towards "women-led development". The women legislators also fel...
Nalini Sriharan, one of the convicts serving life term for her role in the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, was granted one-day parole on Tuesday by the Madras High Court. She applied for three days' parole to attend to her father's memorial prayer. The court granted her parole for 24 hours to attend her father's memorial prayer on March 9. ...
I skulked home one afternoon from school in a particularly muggy hot Delhi summer month and spent the day cursing fate that I was born a girl. I was 14 years old, in class ninth and had just discovered that my period, the first two awful days (!), were going to coincide with the two days of the annual Leadership Tr...
The single-member Justice Vishnu Sahai Commission, which probed the 2013 Muzaffarnagar communal riots and whose report was tabled in Uttar Pradesh Assembly on Sunday has come under cloud after a social activist has challenged its constitution in first place....
The US energy firms cut oil rigs for the eleventh straight week, according to the data released by oil service company Baker Hughes Friday. Analysts expected major US shale oil companies continue to slash spending, Xinhua news agency reported....
