New Delhi: A three-judge Supreme Court bench led by Chief Justice Dipak Misra on Tuesday said that "horrendous act of mobocracy can't be allowed” and asked the Centre to make ‘lynching’ a separate offence and bring in a law. This ruling from the top court comes just a day before the Monsoon sessi

New Delhi: Attempting to set the agenda for the upcoming Monsoon Session of Parliament, Congress president Rahul Gandhi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying Women’s Reservation Bill be taken up on a priority for passage. Extending his party’s “unconditional support” to the bill pend

New Delhi: A 39-year-old air-hostess has committed suicide by jumping off the terrace of her home in south Delhi's Hauz Khas on Friday. The family of Anissia Batra, who was working Lufthansa Airlines, said they suspect foul play. According to reports, days before, Anissia’s father, a retired Majo

Six people are still missing after a boat carrying around 30 passengers capsized in Gautami River in Andhra Pradesh’s East Godavari district on Saturday evening. The AP State Disaster Management Authority said 26 passengers of the boat were rescued but two of them were hospitalised with injuries.

Bareilly: In a horrific incident, a 35-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped by five men and later burnt alive in the yagyashala of a temple near her house in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal district. According to reports, the woman had dialled the police helpline 100 before she was burnt alive. Howeve

Hyderabad: BJP President Amit Shah on Friday said that construction of a grand Ram temple at Ayodhya will begin before the 2019 elections. Mr Shah told a meeting of party leaders in Hyderabad that steps will be taken to clear the decks for launching construction of the temple before the polls.

Greater Noida, July 14: A 45-year-old woman allegedly hired three contract killers to kill her 22-year-old son, as the latter had objected to his mother’s illegitimate relationship with a self-styled godman. The woman, Suresh Devi, had hired the contract killers for a sum of Rs. 35,000 to get rid

Islamabad: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam spent their first night in the high-security Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi with “B” class facilities, media reports said today, a day after their arrest. B Class prisoners in Pakistan get better facilities than regular inmate

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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday took a strong note of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry's decision to set up a social media hub for monitoring online data, observing that it will be "like creating a surveillance state". The top court said the government wants to tap citizens' Whats

Guwahati: The Assam government on Wednesday banned import and sale of fish imported from Andhra Pradesh and other states for a period of 10 days following the presence of cancer causing chemical formalin content in the imported fish. Minister of state for health and family welfare Pijush Hazarika

All Congress leaders must choose their words carefully to reject the BJP’s hatred, the main opposition party said on Thursday following Shashi Tharoor’s comment that India will become a Hindu Pakistan if the saffron outfit regains power next year. “Modi Govt thrives upon an unprecedented atmosphe

New Delhi: As many as 26 students of a government school here were hospitalised after eating their mid-day meal prompting the Delhi government to order inspection of all mid-day meal kitchens in the city. Police have registered an FIR after a formal complaint was received from the school. A po

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday filed a second chargesheet naming BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar as an accused in the Unnao gangrape case involving a 17 year old girl. In its chargesheet, the CBI said that Senger has been charged for rape along with accomplice Shashi Singh, w

BHOPAL: In yet another case of lack of medical facilities, a man was forced to carry the body of his mother on a motorcycle for post-mortem. The woman, identified as Kunwar Bai, died on Monday due to a snake bite. Her family then informed a district hospital in Mohangarh for a post-mortem to be c

Mangaluru: After a social media uproar, the Mangaluru University has withdrawn a chapter "Maguvina Tandhe" from its official Kannada language textbook "Nudi Noopura" prescribed for the third semester of BCom students. The lesson was based on a story written by Late Mattara Vittal Hegde. Some sect

NEW DELHI: Facing criticism over the selection of the yet-to-be-established Jio Institute by Reliance Foundation as an "Institution of Eminence", the HRD Ministry today clarified that the tag was conditional and it would get only a letter of intent for now. "Right now they will not get the IoE ta

A city court today ordered that former union minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti would not be arrested in the Aircel-Maxis deal related money laundering case till August 7, even as the Enforcement Directorate opposed the former's anticipatory bail plea. The ED opposed the bail application be