Mumbai: Maharashtra government will bring in a legislation to make teaching Marathi language compulsory in all schools in the state, including those affiliated to ICSE and CBSE, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said Thursday. Mr Fadnavis informed the Legislative Council that there is already a provi

Sacked Gujarat-cadre IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt has been sentenced to life by a Jamnagar court in connection with a 30-year-old custodial death case. Another police officer Praveen Singh Jhala has also been sent to prison for life. The Supreme Court had last week refused to entertain Bhatt's plea s

NEW DELHI: The Upper House of Parliament is likely to take up the triple talaq bill, which criminalises instant divorce among Muslim community members, on Thursday. It may be recalled that the proceedings of the Rajya Sabha began soon after the President's joint address of the Parliament on Thurs

The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet on Tuesday approved an ordinance making it mandatory for new and existing private universities to give an undertaking that they will not be involved in “any anti-national activity”, The Times of India reported. Universities would also have to submit that they will not al

New Delhi: The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways on Tuesday decided to remove the requirement of minimum educational qualification for driving a transport vehicle. The process of amendment to Rule 8 of Central Motor Vehicles 1989 and the draft notification in this regard will be issued soon

Five days after a 19-year-old woman and her boyfriend sustained burn injuries after an alleged “chemical attack” in West Delhi’s Vikaspuri, police have arrested the woman for allegedly orchestrating the same. In the incident on June 11, the woman’s 24-year-old boyfriend, who was riding the two-wh

Lucknow: In a bid to promote Sanskrit, the Uttar Pradesh government will now issue press releases in Sanskrit along with Hindi, English and Urdu, an official said Tuesday. The first press note in Sanskrit was issued by the state government's Information Department on Monday. Senior officials

New Delhi: Seven-term Member of Parliament Virendra Kumar was sworn in as the pro tem speaker of the 17th Lok Sabha on Monday. Kumar will oversee the oath-taking of newly elected LS members on Monday and Tuesday. On Wednesday, as soon as a new speaker of the 17th Lok Sabha is elected, his role wi

New Delhi: Tightening the screw on tax evaders, the revised guidelines issued by the Income Tax (I-T) Department have made serious offences under black money and benami laws "generally" non-compoundable. This means that a person or entity would not be able to settle a case of tax evasion by just

New Delhi: The government on Thursday announced a cut in contributions made by employers and employees towards social security and health insurance scheme Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) to 4 per cent from 6.5 per cent. The move would lead to an estimated annual savings of around Rs 5,

New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, also a renowned economist, will be missed in the upcoming Budget session of the Parliament as his nearly 30-year-long tenure as a Rajya Sabha member ended on Friday. Singh, who is credited with keeping India away from the great recession of 2008, woul

KOLKATA: Kolkata Mayor and West Bengal minister Firhad Hakim's daughter, a doctor, has come up with strong criticism of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's handling of the onging doctors' strike and said medicos have the right to "peaceful protest" and "safety at work. In a Facebook post, Shabba Hak

New Delhi/Itanagar: The mortal remains of all 13 brave air warriors who were onboard the IAF's AN-32 transport aircraft, which crashed in Arunachal Pradesh on June 3, will be taken to Jorhat airbase in Assam on Friday. The IAF had said on Thursday that no effort was being spared in ensuring the

Cyclone Vayu won’t hit Gujarat after changing trajectory overnight but the severity of the storm still remains a threat for the state’s coastal areas, the Met department. Gujarat continues to be in a state of high alert with 3 lakh people from low-lying areas of Saurashtra and Kutch regions being ev

The first woman President of the Uttar Pradesh Bar Council, Darwesh Singh Yadav, was shot dead in Agra Civil courts on Wednesday allegedly by her own colleague Manish Sharma, police said. Sharma pumped three bullets, and later shot himself. The two were rushed to Pushpanjali hospital, where docto

In a move that could come as a massive relief for senior citizens in the state, the Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government has decided on punitive action against those who fail to take care of their elderly parents. The Bihar Cabinet on Tuesday gave the green signal to a total of 17 proposals and one

Alarmed over deaths of children in various north Bihar districts due to symptoms akin to that of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES), a seven-member team of experts from the central government is arriving here soon to find out exact reasons for the epidemic. More than 29 children have died in Muzaf

In a massive rescue operation in Punjab's Sangrur that lasted nearly five days, a two-year-old boy was rescued from inside a borewell after he had tumbled in by accident.   Fatehveer Singh had fallen inside the 150-feet-deep borewell near his house in Bhagwanpura village at around 4 pm on