The Kerala government has sought an immediate intervention of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to relax norms for Indian nurses who wish to work in the Middle East....
Demanding that the files on the mysterious death of Lal Bahadur Shastri be de-classifed on the lines of those relating to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, the family of the India's second prime minister, widely admired as a "son of the soil", says it been treated in a step-motherly manner by successive governments at the cen...
A three-member BJP parliamentary team sent by the party on a 'fact finding mission' to northern West Bengal's violence-hit Kaliachak was stopped at the Malda railway station and forced to board a train for Kolkata on Monday by the district administration....
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Monday stayed its earlier order directing the Tamil Nadu government to enforce dress code for devotees visiting temples under its control....
Nine days after terrorists believed to be from Pakistan attacked an air force base, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Monday pain must be inflicted on those who hurt India....
The odd-even scheme is a policy decision and was introduced based on the opinion of experts, the Delhi High Court said on Monday while refusing to interfere with the Aam Aadmi Party government's pet project to curb air pollution....
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...