India

New Delhi: Congress leader and former Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh has moved the Supreme Court challenging the controversial practice of granting ex-post facto environmental clearances. This move is to...

Jaunpur: A shocking incident has come to light in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, in which a young man amputated his own foot in a bid to obtain a Person with Disability...

Jaipur: In a rare case highlighting the human side of convicts in jail, two murder convicts who developed a romantic relationship while serving their sentences inside a central jail in...

New Delhi/Abu Dhabi: In a significant development, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced that it will release 900 Indian nationals from prisons in that country. The UAE has handed...

New Delhi: Senior Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has decided not to attend a Congress high command meeting in Delhi scheduled for Friday, sources say, marking another episode of apparent discord...

Indore: There are fresh reports of water contamination in Indore , Madhya Pradesh, barely weeks after 23 people died and several others were hospitalised due to water-borne diseases in the...

New Delhi: Union home minister Amit Shah has hailed the ongoing major operation between security forces and the Maoists in Jharkhand as a major success. At least 15 Naxalites, including...

Noida/Ahmedabad: Security agencies have gone on high alert after several schools across Ahmedabad and Noida received bomb threats via e-mails, barely days before Republic Day on Friday. The crime branch...

Kozhikode: NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, who announced her retirement after a 27-year career recently, said in Kerala that she would have loved to go to space again, but there were...

New Delhi: There is nothing arbitrary in the way the Special Intensive Review (SIR) is being conducted, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has told the Supreme Court. "There may...