The Union government wanted the Indian Penal Code Section that allowed a man to have sex with his wife aged below 15 to stay. The Section was read down by the Supreme Court on Wednesday. There were deliberations on striking down exception 2 to Section 375 (rape) of the IPC in the Ministry of H

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's famous blue WagonR was stolen in New Delhi today. The car was stolen from the Delhi secretariat - the seat of the state government that Kejriwal heads. Kejriwal was not currently using the car, after having it given it up in 2014. The Maruti car was currently

The Delhi High Court on Thursday set aside the disciplinary action taken by JNU against 15 of its students, including ex-JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar, in connection with a controversial event on February 9 last year in the varsity. Justice V K Rao remanded the issue back to the Jawaharlal Nehru

A person’s advance directive to withdraw medical care to allow him to die with dignity should take effect only when a medical board affirms that his condition is beyond cure and irreversible, Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra said on Wednesday. The Chief Justice, heading a five-judge Constitutio

Ballia: Hitting back at Rahul Gandhi, BJP leader Shahnawaz Hussain has said the Congress vice president is “afraid” of the women leaders in the BJP. Women are respected the most in the BJP and the party has maximum number of women legislators in Uttar Pradesh, he said reacting to the Congress lea

RAJKOT: A group of lions attacked a ‘gaushala’ and mauled as many as 15 cows within just 45 minutes. According to Times Of India, the unusual behaviour reported to have happened at Juni Vag haniya village near Bagasara town on Monday night in Bhaktidham gaushala which sheltered nearly 300 cows an

A Sonepat court on Tuesday awarded life imprisonment to Lashkar-e-Taiba bomb maker Syed Abdul Karim alias Tunda for his role in 1996 Sonepat blasts. The court of additional sessions judge Sushil Garg also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh (Rs 50,000 each for conviction in two sections) on him. Tunda

Uniform rainfall across the city in the past two days led to the city recording its cleanest air day on Monday since June 2015, when air quality monitoring and forecasting began in Mumbai. The air quality index (AQI) — pollutant measuring indicator — was 35 for PM2.5 — particles smaller than 2.5

New Delhi: Rape convict, Gurmeet Ram Rahim, moved to Punjab and Haryana High Court and told them that he has renounced the world and does not have money to pay the fine of Rs 30 lakh, which special CBI court had imposed on him. Dera Chief has been sentenced to 20 years in prison along with the fi

As a matter of fact, which several people don’t know, Army soldiers are treated differently on the basis of where they are being deployed. Soldiers who take care of the China front, that is ‘Line of Actual Control’ (LAC) get fewer benefits than those who are deployed on Pakistan front or Line of Con

Mumbai: Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday dared his party’s ruling ally BJP to “resign” from the Maharashtra government and face midterm polls. The state’s ruling partners are also part of the NDA at the Centre, but relations between them are strained for quite some time. “I challenge

Vijayawada: The CPM senior leader Prakash Karat has alleged that the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak (RSS) indulging in attacks on Muslims and Dalits across the nation. Addressing a program ‘Neo-liberal policies, authoritarianism, communal policies-alternatives” organized by the CPM, on the occasion of ce

The narcotics which was estimated to be worth Rs 3.4  crore in the market went missing from the customs godown in Sewri in 2014. Now, after three years police have closed the case by filing an 'A summary' (classifying the case as true, but undetected) Mid Day reported. The drugs were part of a ne

New Delhi: BJP President Amit Shah on Sunday slammed the CPI-M government in Kerala over the “political killings” of BJP-RSS workers in the state, saying it was being done to “instil fear” among the people and prevent the BJP from expanding in the state. Shah, addressing a Jan Raksha Yatra in the

New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi on Saturday while addressing a rally at Mandi said, Prime Minister Narendra Modi can’t differentiate between truth and lies. He also said that Mr Modi makes false promises by befooling people leaving a serious impact on India’s economy. “Modi can’t differentiate between tr

Muzaffarnagar, October 7 : In a horrifying incident, a 30-year-old-woman was gang-raped in front of her husband by four men who held the family, including a three-month old baby, hostage. The crime was committed when the family was returning home after visiting a pediatrician in Bhopa area of Muzaff

DEHRADUN: The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) will keep a close watch on all wings and fronts of the BJP’s Uttarakhand unit and will keep the party brass updated about organisational preparedness, sources in the Sangh said. Already two former Sangh pracharaks — Jyoti Prasad Gairola and Sanjay K

In poll-bound Gujarat, once again the stage is set for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit. Modi will be visiting his home state for two days beginning Saturday. From early this year, Modi has been visiting Gujarat at regular intervals to attend one programme or the other, leading a scope for debat