BJP MP Prahlad Joshi on Tuesday slammed Congress leader P. Chidambaram's comments comparing selling pakodas (fritters) to begging, as the Lok Sabha took up a debate on the motion of thanks to the President's speech. Amid protests by the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and YSR Congress over the budget, a debate on the motion of thanks was initiated in the ...
Nearly three in 10 Indians experienced a sexual risk online, including unwanted sexting, in 2017 with males reporting higher levels of harassment than females, a Microsoft study said on Tuesday. It found that 23 per cent males reported harassment as compared to 16 per cent females, which was driven by unwanted sexting. The Micro...
The Supreme Court will hear on February 12 a plea by PETA seeking to prohibit the buffalo race -- Kambala -- that is held in Karnataka during festivities that coincide with the Pongal celebrations. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud on Tuesday agreed to hear the plea by People for the Ethical Treatme...
The Maldivian police on Tuesday arrested the country's Chief Justice and another judge after the government of President Abdulla Yameen declared a state of emergency, media reports said. Chief Justice Abdulla Saeed and Justice Ali Hameed were arrested from the Supreme Court at around 3 a.m., after an almost seven-hour siege of the premis...
Six RSS workers have been taken into custody for an attack on poet Kureepuzha Sreekumar, that took place near here late last night. ...
Former Maldives President Mohammed Nasheed on Tuesday sought military intervention by India to resolve the crisis raging in his country, a day after a defiant President Abdulla Yameen declared a state of emergency and got the country's Chief Justice and another judge put behind bars....
An oil tanker with 22 Indians on board that went missing off Benin coast in the Gulf of Guinea near West Africa on Saturday that was believed to have been hijacked by pirates has been released, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Tuesday. ...
A massive downturn in the US and East Asian stock markets unleashed a selling frenzy in the Indian equity markets during the trade session on Tuesday. ...
In an audacious attack, militants helped a Pakistani LeT terrorist escape by firing at the police party escorting him to hospital here on Tuesday, leaving one policeman dead and another wounded. Authorities have sounded a high alert in the city. ...
The door of a mosque was set ablaze on Monday by unidentified persons in Uttar Pradesh's Kasganj district, leading to brief tension in the area that was singed by violence and clashes on Republic Day. Police said the situation is calm....
