Former ISRO chairman G. Madhavan Nair, who has been chargesheeted in the Antrix-Devas deal by the CBI, said on Thursdathat there was nothing wrong in the deal on Thursday....
Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan on Thursday hit out at Congress for playing politics over atrocities on Dalits, and said that its leaders visited Hyderabad University after student Rohit Vemula's suicide but never did so when the atrocities on Dalits took place in the past....
Among other issues, the bill seeks to amend the Citizenship Act of 1955 to provide that Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan will "not be treated as illegal migrants"....
The government came in for strident attack in the Lok Sabha from the opposition which claimed that the Dalits had lost confidence in it....

Indian boxers have overnight been given new jerseys after International Olympic Committee (IOC) objected to the lack of the country's name on the reverse side....

Despite elephant-headed Ganesha being widely worshipped across India, at least 100 elephants die every year in the country, with many poached for ivory and many more captured and sold to traffickers....
Technology tycoons - Wipro Chairman Azim Premji and HCL co-founder Shiv Nadar - ranked in the top 20 in the Forbes list of 100 richest tech billionaires....

Congress President Sonia Gandhi is to remain in hospital for some more time as she is suffering from fever due to infection, doctors said on Thursday. ...
The Lok Sabha on Thursday began general discussion on the "atrocities against Dalits" in the country under Rule 193....
Deepika Kumari and Bombayla Devi were beaten in their 1/8 Eliminations round of the Women's Individual category, ending India's campaign in women's archery at the Rio Olympics here on Thursday. ...