The Tamil Nadu government is preparing for stringent action against those encroachers who have converted water bodies into either commercial or residential properties....
Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij on Friday told the assembly that 591 people have been arrested in the state on charges of sending people abroad by dubious means....
AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi has criticised the decision of Narendra Modi government to raise the minimum age of marriage for women from 18 to 21, terming it "ridiculous". ...
Some madrasas in Pakistan have continued to teach violent extremist doctrine, according to a new US report on terrorism. ...
As they seized control of Afghanistan this August, the Taliban tortured and killed members of ethnic and religious minorities, soldiers of the now defunct Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF), and those perceived as government sympathisers in reprisal attacks, the Amnesty International said in a report....
Novavax's Covid-19 vaccine is 90 per cent effective at preventing Covid-19 illness, according to results from a Phase 3 clinical trial....
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to grant any relief to an editor of a Kannada weekly, jailed for a month for publishing defamatory articles against a lawyer, noting that considering the language used by the journalist, one month jail was "lenient"....
BJP national General Secretary and Karnataka MLA C.T. Ravi said on Friday that those who indulge in forceful conversions should fear the anti-conversion law that is being brought in the state. ...
Group Captain Varun Singh, who succumbed to his injuries sustained in the crash of the IAF helicopter, carrying CDS General Bipin Rawat and others, in Tamil Nadu last week, was cremated with full military and state honours here on Friday....
The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day on Friday amid continuous uproar by the Opposition seeking dismissal of Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Kumar Misra over the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case. ...
