The impact of Covid-19, social isolation and a rise in hateful extremism online are creating a "perfect storm", making more young people vulnerable to radicalization and other forms of grooming, Britain's Counter Terrorism Police (CTP) said....
It's game on in Kerala as Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, known for showing no mercy to his detractors, has struck first blood with the arrest of former PWD Minister and senior legislator of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), V.K. Ebrahim Kunju, in the Palarivattom flyover collapse case....
The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a notice on a clutch of pleas challenging the election of External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar to the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat....
Two years back, the term 'love jihad' was just a part of the fringe discourse, used mainly by the Bajrang Dal or the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP). Today, it has been mainstreamed, so much so that four state governments -- all ruled by the BJP -- have expressed their intent to bring a law to contain this phenomenon....
Rishiraj Singh, Director General of Prisons and Correctional Services, Kerala, is a man known for his tough positions and on Wednesday he proved it yet again when he asked state BJP President K. Surendran to either withdraw his statement, or get ready to face legal action....
Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech released a second batch of interim results on Wednesday, saying their two-dose coronavirus vaccine candidate is 95 per cent effective and also protects the most vulnerable people in older age groups from the risk of falling prey to the virus....
Pakistan has once again expressed its disregard over India's qualification for a seat on the 15-member UN Security Council (UNSC), stating that New Delhi does not even qualify for the seat due to "ongoing unrest" and "violations of UNSC's resolutions" in Jammu and Kashmir. ...
The Congress-led United Democratic Front, the principal opposition in Kerala, on Wednesday cried foul in the manner in which the state Vigilance Department arrested the former PWD Minister and senior legislator of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) V.K. Ebrahim Kunju in the Palarivattom flyover collapse case....
Sahitya Academy award winner Bengali poet Alokeranjan Dasgupta has passed away at his residence in Germany. He was 87. The news of his demise was confirmed by his wife Elizabeth....
Normal life was crippled in northern Tripura's Kanchanpur sub-division for the 3rd day on Wednesday wih tensions running high. This follows the Joint Movement Committee called shutdown for an indefinite period to protest the government's decision to rehabilitate thousands of tribal refugees, who had fled to adjoining Mizoram 23 y...
