The military, especially the 1.3-million-strong army, is unhappy with a 2018 Supreme Court (SC) verdict scrapping adultery as a criminal offence, and is likely to approach the apex court to exclude the defence forces from the ambit of the judgment, two senior officers said on condition of anonymity.

At least 90 stray dogs were found killed with their muzzles and legs tied with strings in Maharashtra’s Buldhana district, police said on Sunday. The carcasses of the dogs were found strewn at various spots on Girda-Savaldabara Road in a forest area in the east Maharashtra district on Thursday ev

Bengaluru / New Delhi: Chandrayaan 2 lunar lander Vikram has been located on the moon's surface and the ground station is working to establish contact, news agency PTI quoted ISRO chief K Sivan as saying today. ISRO had lost contact with Vikram, one of three components of the Chandrayaan 2 spacecraf

New Delhi: Days after the Supreme Court Collegium declined her request for reconsideration of transfer to Meghalaya, Madras High Court Chief Justice Vijaya K Tahilramani has resigned. She tendered her resignation to President Ram Nath Kovind and sent a copy of it to Chief Justice of India Ranjan

In a bid to curb absenteeism at government schools, the Gujarat government on September 5 (Teachers’ Day) launched a facial recognition-based biometric online attendance system across 40,000 primary schools. While launching the new system from the State capital Gandhinagar, Chief Minister Vijay R

A Supreme Court Bench on Friday referred to the Chief Justice of India a plea for live streaming of the ongoing Ayodhya title dispute hearings. The Chief Justice is likely to hear the petition filed by activist K.N. Govindacharya on September 11. The Bench led by Justice Rohinton Narimam, whil

The Supreme Court on Friday issued a notice to Centre on a plea challenging the amended anti-terror law that empowers the government to designate an individual as terrorist. This case comes days after the government, using the law, declared Jaish chief Hafiz Saeed and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim,

Road transport minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday assured that there were no plans to ban conventional petrol and diesel vehicles amid an unprecedented slowdown in the auto industry. “There were discussions and the ministry had received suggestions that petrol, diesel vehicles be banned. I would

Gurugram: Following implementation of the amended Motor Vehicles Act 2019 in the country, Gurugram traffic police issued a 'challan' of Rs 59,000 to a tractor trolley driver for multiple violations. The tractor driver Ram Gopal who is also the owner of the vehicle was caught by traffic police after

New Delhi: At least 10 people have been killed and 30 injured after a blast rocked through a firecracker factory in Punjab’s Gurdaspur on Wednesday. As many as 50 are reported to be still trapped inside. Over a dozen fire tenders have been pressed into action to douse the flames. According to rep

BJP’s ally Shiv Sena has backed former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who recently said that the Indian economy is in a bad shape due to “mismanagement” by the Narendra Modi-government, and said that listening to him is in the “national interest.” Sena’s support for Manmohan Singh, a noted econom

Gurgaon: Barely two days after the implementation of the Motor Vehicle Amendment Bill 2019 there has been a giant wave of traffic violation fines that have been issued to hundreds. One astonishing case came from Gurgaon where a two-wheeler user was handed a challan for Rs 23,000 over multiple traffi

Three students of Amity University in Noida, Uttar Pradesh were brutally thrashed by a group of people allegedly over a minor parking dispute outside the campus on August 28. An audio clip allegedly by one of the victim and witness, Divaker Tyagi, is doing the rounds on social media. In the clip,

The Union Home Ministry has assured that the 19 lakh people left out of the citizenship list would not be detained till all remedies have been exhausted. Talking about the options available for those excluded, the ministry said they need to appeal to Foreigners Tribunal within 120 days from Augus

An arrest warrant has been issued against Mohammed Shami and the India crickter now has 15 days in which to surrender and apply for bail. Mohammed Shami is currently playing the second and the final Test against the West Indies and played a key role for India in the 2019 Cricket World Cup. In

Lieutenant General Manoj Mukund Naravane on September 1 assumed charge as vice chief of the 1.3 million-strong Army. Lt. Gen. Naravane will be in contention for the Army chief’s post as he will be the senior-most commander when incumbent Gen. Bipin Rawat retires on December 31, official sources s

Nearly 19 lakh people from Assam were excluded Saturday from a final citizenship list that is intended to identify legal residents and weed out illegal immigrants, amid fears they could be rendered stateless. A total of 3.1 crore people were included on the list, leaving out 1.9 lakh, according t

Two Bihari brothers who worked as migrant labourers in Kashmir are in serious trouble after marrying two Kashmiri sisters soon after annulment of Article 370, and simultaneously bringing them to their home in Supaul. On Wednesday, Kashmir police arrested the two brothers, Mohammed Tabrez, 26 and