New Delhi : Amid noisy protests over the Rafale deal and Cauvery issue, the Lok Sabha Monday passed a bill seeking to empower the transgender community by providing them a separate identity. The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, seeking to define transgenders and prohibit discrimination against them, […]
Guwahati : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Monday demanded Congress president Rahul Gandhi to apologise to the nation for “misleading” the people by spreading “lies and misinformation” on the Rafale fighter jet deal. Adityanath attacked the Congress for not accepting the apex court’s verdict and termed it as […]
New Delhi : Delhi’s air quality remained ‘very poor’ on Monday with the authorities predicting further rise in pollution levels due to reduced wind speed. The overall air quality index (AQI) of the national capital was 336, which falls in the ‘very poor’ category, according to the Central Pollution […]
New Delhi : Senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar’s conviction and sentence to life for “remainder of his natural life” by the Delhi High Court on Monday is the third successful prosecution within a month relating to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases. The judgement holding Kumar guilty in a case […]
New Delhi : The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union has accused the varsity of dropping the subscription of important journals over paucity of funds. Making the announcement at a press conference, the students body shared documents of the Library Advisory Committee meeting held last month. Prior to holding the […]
Mumbai : The Mumbai Police Monday said they will examine the contents of a speech given by controversial Hindutva leader Sambhaji Bhide at a BMC school at Sewree in Central Mumbai. Bhide, who is accused of inciting caste violence near Koregaon-Bhima village in Pune district earlier this year, was […]
Gurgaon : A four-feet wide hole appeared at the Rampura flyover on National Highway 8 in Gurgaon on Monday. The flyover between Kherki Daula toll plaza and IMT Manesar, was opened last year by the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) to ease traffic congestion on the strect leading […]
Mumbai : The death toll in the blaze at a Mumbai hospital Tuesday rose to eight, with two more persons succumbing to injuries overnight, civic officials said. A five-month-old baby girl was among the deceased at the fire at the government-run ESIC Kamgar hospital Monday. “Altogether 176 persons, including […]
Mumbai/Pune : Prime Minister Narendra Modi is reaching here Tuesday on a day’s visit to Maharashtra in which he will launch infrastructure and housing projects worth about Rs 41,000 crore in the state, officials said. Soon after landing at Mumbai, Modi will attend an event organised by a TV […]
Muzaffarnagar : A man was arrested for allegedly impersonating a CBI officer and cheating people in Shamli district, police said Tuesday. Shamli Superintendent of Police Ajay Kumar told reporters that Naresh Kumar was arrested Monday. Two mobile phones, some cash and four passbooks of bank accounts were seized from […]
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