The Supreme Court has indicated that it will uphold a Tamil Nadu government order that notified the Nilgiris Elephant Corridor in 2010.  On Wednesday, the Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices S A Nazeer and Sanjiv Khanna also ordered the setting up of a committee headed by a retired judge …

For many years, Haryana had the dubious distinction of having the most skewed sex ratio in the country. But things have turned around for good. Haryana has set a new benchmark in the male-female sex ratio as the state has witnessed a remarkable increase of 52 points in sex ratio at birth during the last five years.  As per the …

On the one side, India is making all efforts possible to save its national animal from extinction and the increase in the tiger population is evidence for the success of it. And on the other hand, the rising number of tiger deaths in the country is a huge concern.  With just one week into 2020, India has lost a big …

We all respect our brave soldiers. We may not be able to fight the enemy like them, however, we miss no chance to tell the stories of their heroics while they save the borders of our country. Four men from Hyderabad have now completed a ‘Bharat Yatra’ across the length and breadth of India to pay tribute to the fallen …

A wild rogue elephant, which was tranquilized recently by the forest officials in Assam has died due to an apparent cardiac arrest. The 35-year old bull elephant was captured, after tranquilizing, from Rongjuli forest division in Western Assam’s Goalpara district on November 11. Forest department shifted the rogue to Orang national park on November 12.  AFP According to officials, the …

Nearly a week after the Supreme Court delivered the historic verdict, which would have settled the Ayodhya dispute that had lingered for decades the case is set to drag further. This comes after to Muslim bodies, including the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) and Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind decide to challenge the SC verdict and file a review petition. AFP …

The Supreme Court has ruled that the review against allowing women of all ages can enter and offer prayers at the famed Sabarimala Temple in Kerala will be transferred to a seven-member bench. Chief Justice of India (CJI) who delivered the verdict said the court has examined all aspects of the case in details.  Out of the five judges, CJI Ranjan …

Severe cyclonic storm ‘Maha’ which is currently in the central Arabian Sea — around 640 km from Porbandar is expected to weaken as a cyclonic storm before it is expected to make landfall on the Gujarat coast on November 7, between Devbhumi-Dwarka district and Union Territory of Diu. Cyclone Maha came just a few days after Cyclone Kyarr which turned out …

Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday became the first Indian to be officially invited by the Pakistan government to attend the inauguration ceremony of the Kartarpur Corridor in Pakistan.  The Kartarpur Corridor will be inaugurated on November 9 at Narowal, on the occasion of the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak. He was the first Indian Sikh to be …

Today there is a lot of conversation around the topic of plastic waste and recycling. While everyone has heard about the fact that plastic waste is collected and recycled, not many people know how it is done or what it takes to turn a discarded product that would otherwise end up in a landfill for the next several centuries into …