Murthal Mystery: Women Recount Horrifying Ordeal, But Govt. Denies Gang Rape
NEW DELHI -- Were women dragged out of their vehicles and raped in the fields near the National Highway in Murthal, when Haryana was besieged by the Jat agitation? While the Haryana government has...
View ArticleGovt To Consider Partial Rollback Of Tax On Provident Fund Withdrawals
Under all-round attack, the government today promised to consider demands for a partial rollback of the proposal to tax 60 per cent of withdrawals from provident fund and a ceiling on employers...
View ArticleEnforcement Directorate Gets Court Nod To Extradite Lalit Modi
A special court in Mumbai on Tuesday gave permission to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to begin extradition proceedings against former Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman Lalit Modi, who is believed...
View ArticleForensic Analysis Shows Kanhaiya Video Was Doctored
A day before the Delhi High Court is scheduled to issue its order in Kanhiya Kumar’s sedition case, forensic analysis has revealed that two videos in which the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’...
View ArticleWhy Budget Did Not Raise Income Tax Ceiling Despite Jaitley's Past Advocacy
The minister of finance, Arun Jaitley, did not make any changes in the tax slabs in the budget for 2016-2017 which was presented yesterday. The basic exemption limit continued to be at Rs 2.5 lakh and...
View ArticleMinor Girl Abducted From A Wedding Found Raped, Murdered
JALAUN -- An eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped and battered to death in the district, police said today. The minor, who had come to attend a wedding here, went missing yesterday and her body was...
View ArticleMumbai Dance Bars To Get Govt Licenses By 15 March
NEW DELHI -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Maharashtra government to grant licenses to dance bars by 15 March. It also ruled that no CCTV will be installed around performance areas in dance...
View ArticleRickshaw Puller Is Scared For Life As 'Aligarh' Reveals His Identity As...
The rickshaw-puller who was caught having sex with deceased Aligarh Muslim University professor Shrinivas Ramachandra Siras is now scared for his life after the release of Hansal Mehta's Aligarh,...
View ArticleIrom Sharmila Arrested After Resuming Hunger Strike
IMPHAL -- Manipuri rights activist Irom Sharmila Chanu, who was acquitted by a court on the charge of attempt to suicide, has been arrested after she resumed her 15-year-long indefinite fast at the...
View ArticleWhy Ishrat Jahan Is Back In The News And Why You Should Pay Attention
NEW DELHI -- In the past week, two bureaucrats, who served in the Home Ministry, have made revelations which suggest that the Congress Party-led United Progressive Alliance government played fast and...
View ArticleAfghan Forces Kill Suicide Bombers Who Attacked Indian Consulate
JALALABAD -- Afghan security forces on Wednesday killed a team of suicide bombers who targeted the Indian consulate in the eastern city of Jalalabad, following an attack in which at least six people...
View ArticleFabled Electioneer Prashant Kishor Signs Up For Rahul 2019
Around 50 leaders of the Congress party from Uttar Pradesh met at the All India Congress Committee headquarters in Delhi today. It was a usual meeting to chalk out the battleplan for the UP state...
View ArticleSocial Media Is Outraging About This All-Male Panel Choosing A Woman Achiever
You know there's a long way to go before we can say Indian woman are breaking the glass-ceiling when there's an all male panel trying to choose the 'most influential woman.' IMPACT magazine from the...
View ArticleRahul Gandhi: 'I'm Not From RSS, I Make Mistakes, I Don't Know Everything'
NEW DELHI --Raking up everything from farmer woes to black money, the Naga accord to dealing with Pakistan, as well as the Jawharlal Nehru University row and the suicide of Rohith Vemula, Congress...
View ArticleRahul Gandhi: 'I'm Not From RSS, I Make Mistakes'
NEW DELHI --Raking up everything from farmer woes to black money, the Naga accord to dealing with Pakistan, as well as the Jawharlal Nehru University row and the suicide of Rohith Vemula, Congress...
View ArticlePF Tax Issue To Be Addressed During Budget Discussion: FM
Amid widespread concerns, Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said in Lok Sabha that the issue related to the proposal to tax PF will be addressed by him during the discussion on Budget....
View ArticleDelhi High Court Grants Kanhaiya Kumar Six Months Interim Bail
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted an interim bail for six months to Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar who was arrested on February 12 on charges of...
View ArticleHow Did This Indian Student's Claim To Have Won A NASA Fellowship Get Taken...
Editor's note: This article has been updated with a response from NASA GISS. A few days back, many media outlets reported that an Indian girl--resident of a Kolkata suburb--has bagged the prestigious...
View ArticleTamil Nadu Decides To Remit Sentence Of Rajiv Gandhi's Assassins
Tamil Nadu Government today said it has decided to remit the sentence of life imprisonment of all the seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and release them and sought the Centre's...
View ArticleKanhaiya's Bail Judgement Begins With ‘Mere Desh Ki Dharti'
Metaphors abound in the Delhi High Court judgement that gave bail to JNU students’ union president Kanhaiya Kumar – metaphors that seek to emphasise the value of nationalism. Justice Pratibha Rani...
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