A 15-year-old teenager from West Midnapore district could be the first victim of the infamous Blue Whale game in Bengal. Mystery surrounds the alleged suicide of Ankan Dey, a class 10 student in Anandapur town whose body was recovered from the bathroom of his house on Saturday. According to famil

New Delhi: The law itself allows the cattle slaughter for food and religious purposes. If slaughtering cattle for food or religious sacrifice is allowed under the Prevention of Cruelty Act, then why did the government ban the cattle sale for these purposes in the new livestock market rules, the Supr

Jaipur: Ater removing dignitaries from the Rajasthan’s school textbooks, Rajasthan government removed the birthday of the Father of the Nation from their holidays’ list. For them, celebrating Gandhi Jayanti is not important enough for the government of Rajasthan. The state universities will remain w

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday granted three months time to authorities to complete translation of historic documents related to the several decades old Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute. The apex court passed the order after the Sunni Waqf Board informed it that the translation of his

Haryana BJP chief Subhash Barala’s son Vikas and his friend Ashish Kumar, who are accused of chasing and stalking Varnika Kundu, the daughter of a senior IAS officer in a bid to kidnap her, were sent to judicial custody till August 25 on Saturday. Earlier, both the accused had been sent to the polic

New Delhi: Rajya Sabha members from the Janata Dal United today removed Sharad Yadav, who opposed the party’s decision to ally with the BJP in Bihar, as their leader in the House and replaced him with RCP Singh, a senior party leader said. The MPs met Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu to hand

A local court Thursday sent Vikas Barala, son of Haryana BJP chief Subhash Barala, and Vikas’s friend Ashish Kumar to police custody for two days. Both will again be produced in court on August 12. Vikas and Ashish are facing charges of stalking, wrongful restraint and abduction attempt on Haryana I

NEW DELHI: In a surprise move unmindful of the huge controversy it had sparked, the Maharashtra government has moved the Supreme Court seeking revival of a provision of law that made it an offence to carry or keep beef at home in the state. More than a year ago, the Bombay high court had doused p

New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi has called a meeting of 18 opposition parties on Friday, the last day of Parliament’s monsoon session, to discuss the future course of action of the joint opposition and chalk out a strategy against the Modi government. The meeting will be chaired by Son

New Delhi: Justice Dipak Misra, former chief justice of Patna and Delhi high courts, was on Tuesday appointed as the next chief justice of India. Justice Misra has been appointed as the next Chief Justice of India on the basis of seniority. His tenure is expected to continue for 14 months, till O

While invalidating the votes of two Congress MLAs in the Gujarat Rajya Sabha polls, the Congress cited the June 2016 Haryana Rajya Sabha elections in which, it said, the vote of one of its MLAs was rejected as the ballot paper had been shown to unauthorised persons. On Tuesday, one after the othe

Lucknow: The Aam Adam Party (AAP) on Tuesday alleged that the Lucknow municipal corporation was victimising its cadres at the behest of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the state. AAP district spokesman Mahendra Pratap Singh said as they expose various misdeeds of the Uttar Pradesh

New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea to make yoga compulsory in schools from class 1 to 8 across the country. The Public Interest litigation (PIL) was filed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ashwini Upadhyay, who moved the apex court seeking to make yoga compulsory from

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court today asked the Maharashtra government to file a reply to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking preventive action against cow vigilante groups ahead of next month’s Eid-ul-Adha. City resident Shadaab Patel filed the PIL expressing fear that cow vigilante groups

AHMEDABAD: In Gujarat, the voting for the crucial Rajya Sabha elections on three seats would be held from 9a.m. to 4p.m. on Tuesday. The counting will be held from 5 p.m., an hour after the end of polling. Gujarat Assembly Secretary D M Patel, who is also the returning officer for the Rajya Sa

SRINAGAR: A major infiltration bid has been prevented in Jammu and Kashmir's Machil Sector today. Five infiltrators were killed by security forces along the Line of Control when they were trying to cross over into the Machil. "A major infiltration bid was foiled today in the Machil sector by aler

Tirupati : Vice president-elect M. Venkaiah Naidu on Monday said he will uphold the dignity and decorum of the vice presidential institution, as his appointment speaks the beauty of the Indian parliamentary democracy. After offering prayers to Lord Venkateswara here, the Vice President-elect said

LUCKNOW: A Bangladesh national, who investigators say was recruiting young men for terror activities and providing them with logistical support, was arrested today from Muzaffarnagar in western Uttar Pradesh. The man, identified as Abdullah, is suspected to be linked to the Ansarullah Bangla Team --