A reference to former prime minister Indira Gandhi's rule as "worse than British rule in India" on the Bihar government's official website was removed on Monday after strong objections from the state Congress. Officials in Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's office here said that he had directed the concerned authorities to remove the ref...
The Supreme Court on Monday said parliament may think of formulating laws providing for harsher punishment for those accused of rape and abuse of minor children. An apex court bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra said this while hearing a petition filed by Supreme Court Women Lawyers Association seeking castration of child rape convicts. T...
At a bone-chilling minus 15.2 degrees Celsius, Kargil was the coldest town in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday. "This is the lowest recorded in any town so far this season," an official of the meteorological department here told IANS. Leh town recorded minus 14 degrees, Srinagar minus 3.6 degrees, Pahalgam minus 5.8 and Gulmarg minus 7.2 degrees...
A Tuticorin court on Monday awarded five-year jail terms to 10 crew and 25 security guards aboard an American ship MV Seaman Guard Ohio that was seized by authorities in Indian waters in 2013. "All 35 people arrested from aboard the American ship have been sentenced to five- year imprisonment and asked to pay fine of Rs.3,000 each. Eight people ch...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will extend a $625 million loan for Vizag-Chennai industrial corridor, ADB India country director Teresa Kho announced on Monday. Addressing the CII Partnership Summit in this coastal city, she said ADB would work with Andhra Pradesh in developing the infrastructure nodes as part of the Vizag-Chennai Industri...
Celebrated names Sylvester Stallone and Kate Winslet won the best performance by an actor and actress in supporting roles in a motion picture at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards here late on Sunday....
Union minister Nitin Gadkari and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Sunday met PDP president Mehbooba Mufti here and condoled the death of her father and Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed....
US researchers have developed a system that treats Type 1 diabetes automatically and effortlessly -- with the help of a smartphone -- ditching constant finger pricks and manual insulin injections. ...
Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejaswi Yadav on Sunday asked the BJP-led opposition to stop its political propaganda to defame the state on the law and order issue....
Congress leader Manish Tewari on Sunday defended his statement on a 2012 troop movement towards Delhi, saying there was "nothing to add or subtract" to it, while his own party contradicted his claim....
