Five months after the Supreme Court legalised it, Nepal on Wednesday formally registered the first case of same-sex marriage, making it the first South Asian country to do so....
The immolation of two suspected cattle smugglers Nasir and Junaid by cow vigilantes in Bhiwani was a well-thought-out strategy to destroy forensic evidence and weaken the case in court. As the eight men involved in the abduction and brutal thrashing of the duo in February developed cold feet after t
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin attended an event in a Corporation School at Chennai. When he was interacting with some of the children, he saw that some of them were tired and weary. He asked them with motherly concern, why is it so? He was shocked to hear that many of the students do not eat i
For three days, nearly 5,000 villagers cast away their deep-rooted political affiliations and also buried village rivalries to execute the onerous job of plugging a 300 feet wide, 30 feet deep breach at the Beas, a task which had become essential to their survival.
The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to activists Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, noting that they have been in custody for five years.
More than 600 Meiteis have left Mizoram afraid of being targeted after protests over the viral video of two women being stripped and paraded by a mob in Manipur, a senior police officer said on Thursday.
It took a disturbing video clip of two women from the Kuki-Zomi community being stripped by Meitei men and forced to walk naked amidst a leering mob for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to utter a few words after nearly three months of complete silence on the violent turmoil in Manipur. Over 150 people
A 10-year-old girl working as a domestic help at a couple's house in southwest Delhi's Dwarka was allegedly beaten up by the two on Wednesday, following which a mob manhandled the duo.
For a change, Pakistan is ating as a “friendly neighbour”! Unlike in the past, when the neighbouring country would close its gates at the Suleiman Headworks of the Sutlej, wchile it was in spate in Punjab, the neighbouring country has allowed the gushing river water to flow into its territory.
THE richest 70 lakh people in India earn as much as the poorest 80 crore. In other words, the top 0.5 per cent of Indians earn the same as the bottom 57 per cent put together. These numbers could be disputed. I have based them on the estimates of celebrated inequality economist Thomas Piketty and his colleagues at the World...
Effecting a major political shake-up in Maharashtra politics, which also has national ramifications, NCP leader Ajit Pawar, along with eight party legislators, joined the state government led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. Pawar joins the government as Deputy Chief Minister and will share the post with BJP’s Devendra...
Torrential rains pummelled North India on Sunday, triggering landslides and flash floods in hills and leaving people in knee-deep water in plains. Photographs from across region tell the tale: