In the last 24 hours, India registered 13,091 fresh Covid-19 cases and 340 deaths, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday....
Heavy rain continued to lash Chennai on Thursday morning since the previous night due to the depression over southwest Bay of Bengal, which according to the IMD is expected to cross northern Tamil Nadu and the adjoining south Andhra Pradesh coasts by the evening. ...
The Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu government to bring up harsh measures to eradicate the practice of manual scavenging in the state....
Even as Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan continues his silence over the fiasco arising after state Forest Minister A.K. Saseendran froze the Forest Department's order to fell trees, on Tamil Nadu's request, to strengthen the baby dam near the ageing Mullaperiyar dam, the order was cancelled on Wednesday....
Public education in Pakistan has mostly been used to promote ideologies and narratives produced by the state with an aim to manufacture uniformity of thinking at the mass level and deter ethno-centric tendencies, according to a report by Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS)....
The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday approved the restoration of the Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) which was suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic last year. ...
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, representing Zakia Jafri, the wife of slain former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, told the Supreme Court that communal violence is like "lava erupting from a volcano", and "leaves the ground fertile for future revenge"....
A Mumbai court on Wednesday issued a non-bailable warrant against ex-city police chief Param Bir Singh in an extortion case lodged with the Marine Drive Police Station. ...
Amid the Chhath Puja festival, the Delhi government on Wednesday morning deployed about 15 boats and water sprinklers to clear the toxic foam that gets formed by the high input of industrial pollutants into the Yamuna river, whose ghats (banks) are used by devotees for offerings to the Sun-God. ...
A special court in Lucknow on Wednesday pronounced former UP minister Gayatri Prajapati guilty in a gang rape case....
