NEW DELHI: The HRD Ministry has sought a report from Ahlcon Public School regarding the alleged suicide by a class 9 student whose parents are claiming that she was "sexually harassed" by two teachers. Parents of the 15-year-old, accompanied by other parents staged a protest outside the school in

Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha member Shashi Tharoor has called all cricket lovers to assemble at the Martyrs Column here in the state capital to take part in a candlelight protest on Saturday against the decision of the Kerala Cricket Association (KCA) to shift the November 1 ODI from here to Kochi.

NOTING THAT there were “instances of abuse” of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, by “vested interests” for political or personal reasons, the Supreme Court on Tuesday laid down stringent safeguards, including provision for anticipatory bail and a “pr

PANAJI: Goa Congress President Shantaram Naik today resigned from his post, saying he was "inspired" by Rahul Gandhi's speech at the party plenary about making way for younger leaders. Shantaram Naik, 71, is the first senior Congress leader to resign after Rahul Gandhi announced on Sunday in his

All 39 Indians who went missing in the war-torn Iraqi city of Mosul in 2014 are dead, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj informed Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. Making a suo motu statement in Hindi, Ms. Swaraj said a team of Indian and Iraqi officials found the bodies from a mass grave in Badush an

NEW DELHI: Two appeals challenging the acquittal of Rajesh and Nupur Talwar -- accused of murdering their teen daughter and domestic help Hemraj Banjade -- will be heard by the Supreme Court. The dentist couple had walked out of Ghaziabad's Dasna jail last October after they were acquitted by the Al

Former Bihar chief minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Lalu Prasad was on Monday found guilty in the fourth fodder scam case by a special CBI court in Ranchi. Prasad had already been convicted in three fodder cases. Here are details of the fodder scam cases against Lalu Prasad: The fodder

Kottayam: A Kerala legislator's son on Saturday lodged a complaint with police against Nisha Jose, wife of Kerala Congress (M) MP Jose K Mani, who alleged in her recent book that a senior politician's son misbehaved with her during a train journey. Although Nisha did not reveal the man's identity

HYDERABAD: Drivers of cab aggregators Uber and Ola in Hyderabad will join the nationwide indefinite strike from Saturday midnight. The drivers have put forth a set of six demands that have to be met by the taxi aggregators. The drivers of Hyderabad will be joined by drivers from Mumbai, New Delhi, B

Putting an end to the debate as to whether sharing of aadhaar card number is a deal big enough to raise your eyebrow, the UIDAI clarifies that it isn't. The UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) has advised people not to get carried away or confused with some news appearing in social on A

Launching a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, UPA Chairperson and former Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday said that his pre-poll promises of combating corruption and ensuring inclusive development were “only dramebazi’ and a trick to gra

NEW DELHI: Blasting Pakistan for giving political legitimacy to terror mastermind Hafiz Saeed, home minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said security forces can cross over the Line of Control, if needed, to protect country's territorial integrity. Making it clear that Jammu and Kashmir will remain

Kolkata: In a tragic incident, a meritorious 16-year-old Class 10 boy in West Bengal’s Birbhum died on Thursday night after being treated by an air-condition mechanic impersonating as a doctor in a critical care ambulance on way to hospital. The quack Sheikh Sarfarajuddin, who had no medical expe

In another case of gross negligence, students of the Kasturba Gandhi School in Uttar Pradesh’s Etah fell prey to food poisoning on Friday. What makes the case shocking was that the food poisoning was caused due to consumption of mid-day meal at the school. More than 40 students of the school have be

AMARAVATI: Andhra Pradesh chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, whose TDP pulled out of BJP-led NDA on Friday, said during the last four years, the Narendra Modi government never cared about the problems faced by the state and did injustice to it in all the union budgets. Addressing the the state

Asha Devi, the mother of the December 2012 gangrape victim, on Friday condemned the ‘good physique’ remark made by HT Sangliana and said it would have been better had the former Director General of Karnataka Police spoken about their struggle rather than making a personal remark. “It would ha

NEW DELHI: Opposition members tore papers and threw them around in the Lok Sabha on Thursday as relentless protests by them and NDA partner TDP disrupted proceedings in both Houses of Parliament for the ninth straight day, but the government managed to get two bills passed without debate amid the di

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Assembly today unanimously passed a bill which provides for death penalty to those found guilty of raping girls aged 12 years or less. After Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, Haryana has become the third state where the assembly has approved the provision of capital punishment