Students at IIT-Madras held a beef festival inside the campus to protest against a central government rule that bans the sale of cows for slaughter at animal markets. The protest on Sunday evening saw 70-80 students and food was brought from outside to be distributed to the participants. Stude

NEW DELHI: A day after it was reported that dalit families in Kushinagar district received two bars of soap and a sachet of shampoo and were "instructed to bathe before the visit of UP chief minister Yogi Aditya Nath", the opposition was up in arms. Congress on Sunday demanded that the CM be book

Three cases of Zika Virus have been reported in Bapunagar area, Ahmedabad including a pregnant lady tested this January. The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed the first three cases of Zika virus in India. In order to prevent infection, it is necessary to know how it is transmitted, its s

Kannur: Police on Sunday have booked 16 Youth Congress activists for slaughtering a cow in public and cooking its meat followed by its distribution. They were charged under IPC Section 428 and Section (ii) of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960. Congress-headed UDF opposition youth grou

NEW DELHI: Chemists from across the country are set to go on a nationwide one-day strike on May 30 to protest stringent regulations on the sale of medicines in the country and to draw attention to the squeeze on their margins. The All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD), representi

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police have been put on high alert following intelligence inputs that a group of 20- 21 Laskar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists has entered the country to carry out attacks. The Delhi Police Special Cell has issued an advisory alerting its district, metro police and railway police un

A Supreme Court vacation bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and Navin Sinha refused an urgent hearing on a matter related to the recent flare of caste violence in Uttar Pradesh’s Sahranpur district. The Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by advocate Gaurav Yadav sought a probe by a Special Inv

Srinagar: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) today questioned Hurriyat leader Naeem Khan in connection with the tapes in which he was purportedly seen confessing to receiving money from Pakistan-based terror groups. The sources said that Khan has also been asked to submit some documents rela

Lucknow: BJP MP from Moradabad, Sarvesh Kumar Singh allegedly hit the official of the Public Sector Undertaking with the shoe on Saturday. According to the news published in Indian Express, General Manager of Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India, Ashoka S N alleged that MP Sarvesh

New Delhi: Delhi High Court has issued a notice to Arnab Goswami, former Editor-in-Chief of Times Now channel, in a case pertaining to the alleged breach of employment contract and misusing intellectual property of Times Now. According to the news published in India Samvad, the suit was filed again

May 20: A law student in Kerala last night cut off the genitals of a sadhu who had been allegedly sexually assaulting her for the past seven years with the knowledge of her mother. The young woman in Thiruvananthapuram has told police that she had been enduring the abuse since she was 16. She sai

FIVE accused in the Babri demolition case — former BJP MPs Baikunth Lal Sharma and Ram Vilas Vedanti, VHP international general secretary Champat Rai, president of Ramjanmbhoomi Nyas Mahant Nritya Gopal Das and Nyas’ invited member Mahant Dharam Das — on Saturday appeared before a Lucknow special co

A court in Barabanki on Saturday acquitted former Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) research scholar Gulzar Ahmed Wani in the 2000 Sabarmati Express train blast case. He had been in prison for for 16 years. Another accused, Syed Abdul Mobeen — who is currently out on bail — was also acquitted. The

New Delhi: India today pledged its commitment to eliminate tuberculosis by 2025, five years ahead of the global goal to reduce the number of such deaths by 90 per cent by 2030. Speaking at the 29th meeting of Stop TB Partnership coordination committee, Union Health Minister J P Nadda said that In

Gurdaspur: Around eight kg of heroin was seized in a joint operation by Punjab police and Border Security Force (BSF) in the Thakurpur border outpost area under Gurdaspur sector. “We recovered eight packets (7.830 kg) of heroin near the border fence,” Gurdaspur Superintendent of Police (D) Harp

New Delhi: Najeeb Ahmed, Jawaharlal Nehru University student is been missing for eight months now and the Government seems to do nothing about it. The Muslim student is missing since he had a tiff with ABVP members. His mother, Fatima Nafees pleads the Government to return her son back to her. ‘

Panaji, May 18 (PTI) Several people fell into Sanvordem river at Curchorem village in Goa this evening as a dilapidated Portuguese-era bridge collapsed. The bridge caved in when the state Fire And Emergency Services personnel were rescuing a youth who had jumped into the river apparently in a sui

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India]: In the wake of a series of criminal atrocities reported in several parts of Uttar Pradesh, the state government led by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath facilitated the transfer of 67 IPS officers on Wednesday. The reshuffle is believed to be an attempt to change the