Kolkata: Jagdeep Dhankhar who had to wait outside the West Bengal Assembly Thursday as the gate designated for the governor was locked, said the “humiliation” meted out to the governor’s post has put the country’s democratic history to “shame”. Later Dhankhar entered the Assembly premises...
Read moreHyderabad: The likes of KL Rahul and Rishabh Pant will be aiming to cement their places in the squad as India continue auditions for next year’s T20 World Cup when they take on the West Indies in a three-match T20 series, starting here Friday. India...
Read moreNew Delhi: India was one of the two high burden countries that achieved a 28 per cent reduction in malaria cases in 2018, according to the World Health Organisation's (WHO) World Malaria Report 2019 released Wednesday. Malaria cases dropped in India by 28 per cent...
Read moreNew Delhi: A company may have to pay a penalty of up to Rs 15 crore or four per cent of global turnover if found violating norms under the Personal Data Protection Bill approved Wednesday by the Cabinet, according to official sources. Besides this, the...
Read moreNew Delhi: Paving the way for Parliament to take up the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, the Union Cabinet approved Wednesday the draft law that seeks to grant citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan if they have faced religious persecution there. Slammed by...
Read moreNew Delhi: Social media users took to Twitter and slammed smalltime filmmaker named Daniel Shravan for his shocking comments on rape victims. In the wake of the brutal rape and murder of a veterinary doctor that has shaken the nation, Shravan has posted a series...
Read moreSan Francisco: Signalling the end of an era, Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have decided to relinquish their current positions in the parent company Alphabet, making India-born Sundar Pichai the CEO of both Google and Alphabet. Page and Brin, the CEO and President,...
Read moreCuttack: The saying that ‘every challenge is an opportunity’ holds true for the couple - Kartik and Pravati Sahu - of Khannagar in the Silver City here. Around four years ago, the Sahu couple had faced difficulties to earn livelihood. But today, Kartik and Pravati...
Read moreNew Delhi: Nearly 92,700 employees of BSNL and MTNL have opted for voluntary retirement, which is expected to save about Rs 8,800 crore annually in salary bills for the debt-laden telecom companies. Top officials of both state-run firms have said that the numbers have exceeded...
Read moreBangalore: A nine-year-old girl was allegedly raped and strangled to death at a village in Kalaburagi district, police said Tuesday. A resident of Sulepet in Chicholi Taluk, she had gone missing Monday evening after she went out to play with her friends. The girl’s blood-stained...
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Maneka Gandhi Veganism must become a political movement. At the moment it is nowhere near that, anywhere in the world....
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Industrialist Rahul Bajaj opined at an event organised by Economic Times recently that the government appeared to be unwilling to...
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When Nirbhaya was gang-raped in 2012, nationwide public outcry led to what appeared to be tighter laws that could check...
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While it is common knowledge that the Indian economy is in a tailspin, the fresh release of data on GST...
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