
The government has approved amendments to the Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Amendment Bill that prohibits employment of children under 14 years in all occupations, allowing them to work in family enterprises and the audio-visual industry. This has raised questions about children being deprived of education, increase in school d...
A diplomat with the Indian consulate in Dubai has developed an online database of blood donors in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a media report said on Sunday....

Nitish Kumar also targeted the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying that they had made Yoga a matter of "show-off and publicity". He termed the BJP's move to hold Yoga camp on June 21 a "drama". ...
Pakistan's interior ministry has suspended its order to shut down Save the Children international aid organisation in the country, a media report said on Sunday....

Signalling the start of another tussle with the Narendra Modi government over who has authority over bureaucrats serving in the Delhi administration, the AAP government has asked Delhi Home Secretary Dharam Pal, who is the union government's appointee, to move out of the office or face action....

In the wake of allegations that External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj helped former IPL chief Lalit Modi in leaving India, the Congress on Sunday called for her resignation. ...
B. Santhosh, a member of Kerala Police team that was probing the brawl between CISF personnel and Airports Authority of India officials, told IANS that it was after extensive checking of CCTV visuals that the CISF personnel were arrested....
Pakistani retailers have said that so far sales of Maggi noodles have been stable as consumers have not reacted to reports of lead contamination in Indian manufactured noodles being sold across the border, media reported on Sunday....
New Delhi, June 14 Former Himachal Pradesh governor and ex-union minister Sheila Kaul has died. She was 101....

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday said she helped former IPL chief Lalit Modi to leave India on "humanitarian grounds" to meet his cancer-afflicted wife in 2013 - before she became a minister....