Former president A P J Abdul Kalam has supported abolition of the death penalty, saying that as President he felt pain in deciding mercy petitions of death row convicts since most of them had “social and economic bias”. Responding to a Law Commission of India consultation paper on capital punishm

In what could prove to be evidence of a cover-up in the Vyapam scam investigation, the report of the autopsy conducted on a 19-year-old medical student in 2012, which said she was strangled, was overturned two months later by a “forensic” report which indicated that she committed suicide. The bod

NEW DELHI: Government has spent Rs 94 crore on advertisements alone for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pet Swachh Bharat Mission, which is a rechristened version of erstwhile UPA's Nirmal Bharat Abhiyaan. An RTI response from the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, the nodal ministry for t

A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Thursday dismissed a public interest litigation challenging the inheritance rights based on Sharia law in the Muslim community. The petition was dismissed by the Bench comprising Chief Justice Ashok Bhushan and Justice A.M. Shaffique. The petition was

Mumbai: In controversial remarks, the Shiv Sena today said the increasing population of Muslims in the country will cause language and geographical imbalance and asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ensure that Muslims accept the necessity of family planning. The Sena said that increasing the Hi

Jhabua (Madhya Pradesh): Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday said there was no need for a CBI probe into the Vyapam scam as the SIT investigating the scandal reported to the Madhya Pradesh High Court and not the state government. "SIT (Special Investigation Team) is probing it... the SIT is not

Sleuths of the Telangana Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), investigating the cash-for-vote case, arrested TDP legislator from Sattupalli in Khammam district Sandra Venkata Veeraiah after questioning him for over seven hours here on Monday. Mr. Veeraiah came to the ACB office in Banjara Hills at 10.30

After instant noodles, the country's food safety authority has now turned its focus on energy drinks containing caffeine, which are becoming increasingly popular among youngsters in urban areas, besides meat and poultry products. A set of new regulations on meat and poultry is likely to come into

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on Saturday declared the results of the Civil Services 2014 examinations. IRA SINGHAL has secured the top position in UPSC civil services examination 2014. RENU RAJ and NIDHI GUPTA came second and third respectively in the examination. A total of 1236 ca

NEW DELHI: Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had expressed his discontent over the 2002 Gujarat riots and called it "our mistake", according to former RAW Chief A S Dulat. Dulat said this while recalling a meeting with Vajpayee. In an interview to Karan Thapar on his India Today TV pr

NEW DELHI: You can retain your mobile number while changing cities from Friday with the national mobile number portability (MNP) becoming a reality. The much-awaited proposal will enable you to keep your existing phone number while shifting cities -- say from Delhi to Mumbai or Chennai to Kolkata

In a controversial move, madrassas or Islamic seminaries have been derecognised as formal schools in the BJP-ruled Maharashtra, which has directed the district administrations to declare their students "out-of-school children". The move is being defended by the Devendra Fadnavis government as a m

Abu Dhabi - The Indian Embassy has launched a drive to encourage Indian expatriates in the UAE to register their details with the mission as the first step towards facilitating overseas voting of NRIs and to reach out to them in a better way. At a Press conference held at the mission on Wednesday

A fresh controversy involving External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in connection with her links to Lalit Modi erupted on Wednesday after it emerged that the former IPL chief offered her husband a position on the board of one of his family-run firms. The new controversy gave more ammunition for

After Bangladesh recently scored a historic 2-1 ODI series win against India at home, a section of the local media is seemingly having some fun at the cost of MS Dhoni's team. A caricature in a leading Bangladesh daily - Prothom Alo -- shows top Indian players, including MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli, wi

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the 'Digital India Week' in the national capital Wednesday with a view to empower the people of the country through the Digital India Programme. Digital India aims to transform the country into a digitally empowered knowledge economy. Apart f

NEW DELHI:  Two prisoners dug a 10-foot tunnel under a wall in the dead of night to escape from Delhi's Tihar jail, one of the country's most high security prisons. One of them, 19-year-old Faizan, was caught as he got stuck in a sewer line that was part of their obstacle course to freedom. His 1

The director of a private school in Nalanda was Sunday lynched by a mob, which had gathered after the bodies of two schoolchildren were found in a canal nearby. Police said the director was kicked and hit with bamboo sticks by the mob, which comprised mostly of teenagers. The victim, Devendra