The central government on Wednesday approved Rs 390 crore to be given as scholarships to Scheduled Caste students of Uttar Pradesh and Punjab where assembly elections are due next year. "The sum of about Rs. 390 crores under post-matric scholarships for SC students in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh for the year 2016-17 has been approved," ...
The Supreme Court will examine to what extent courts can look into Muslim personal laws if they violate the fundamental rights guaranteed by the constitution. An apex court bench of Chief Justice T.S. Thakur and Justice A.M. Khanwilkar said on Wednesday that it was an important issue concerning the lives of a large number of people and there were divergent views...
New Delhi, June 29 (IANS) Parliament's monsoon session will be held from July 18 to August 12, Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu announced on Wednesday. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs, headed by Home Minister Rajnath Singh. "The session will begin from July 18... There will be 20 wo...
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Wednesday blamed the Islamic State (IS) for the bombing attacks that killed 36 people and injured 60 others at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport on Tuesday night, the media reported....
Thousands of people staged a protest outside the Houses of Parliament against the result of the referendum of Britain's membership of the European Union, the media reported....
For the first time in the history of our country, the government of India has now allowed institutional tie ups for degree programmes for students across India," Irani said at the fourth convocation of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Kolkata at Mohanpur in Nadia....
Leader of Opposition in the British Parliament Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday refused to step down after a motion of no confidence in him was passed by the party's MPs in the wake of Brexit vote....
Stating that the bifurcation of common high court of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana is not in the central government's purview, Union Law Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda on Tuesday found fault with Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao for planning protest in the national capital....
The Congress said the Prime Minister's body language looked defensive while the Communist Party of India-Marxist termed his interview as a public relations exercise. ...
Pakistan cannot "conquer Kashmir through war" and Islamabad can progress on the issue only in an environment of mutual trust with New Delhi, former Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has said....
