A day after the arrest of 17 men accused of raping an 11-year-old hearing impaired girl in Chennai for nearly seven months, spine-chilling details of the shocking crime is now emerging.  According to police, those arrested include a lift operator, watchmen, plumbers and water can delivery boys either working in or frequenting the apartment complex …

Kids of separated or divorced women or those adopted by single mothers must be given the option of dropping the name of their father on PAN Card, Women and Child Development (WCD) Minister Maneka Gandhi has proposed. Mrs Gandhi has written to interim Finance Minister Piyush Goyal to let children of single mothers apply for a PAN card without mentioning …

It has been nearly ten days and the Delhi Police is still unable to come to an exact conclusion on what led the 11-member Bhatia family in Burari end their lives in an apparent occult ritual. Police are hoping that the post-mortem reports of five or six of them which will be made available on Monday will shed some light …

Social responsibility is not something that one would immediately associate with a terrorist group. But, a Somalia-based al-Qaeda affiliated group which calls itself Al Shabaab, believe it or not, has banned the use of single-use plastic bags! The ban was announced by Radio Andalus, Al-Shabaab’s radio station, on Sunday claiming plastic bags “pose a serious threat to the wellbeing of …

Tanvi Seth, the woman who had triggered a massive controversy last week alleging that an official at the Lucknow Regional Passport harassed her over her interfaith marriage has finally got her passport. Her passport was issued by the Lucknow Regional Passport Office under the new rules as the Local Intelligence Unit (LIU) did not file any adverse report related to …

The Narendra Modi government assumed office with a landslide victory riding on one of its biggest promises, to bring back black money stashed in tax havens like Switzerland. But in the nearly four years, not much has been done to bring back the money or to get the details of Indians who are holding unaccounted money abroad. AFP On Thursday …

All male government employees in Haryana have been asked to submit details of articles of property and amount of money received by them from their in-laws during marriage, in line with the with anti-dowry laws. “Haryana government has decided that every serving government employee will submit the undertaking as prescribed in rule 18(2) of Haryana Civil Services (Government Employees Conduct) …

Dawood Sofi, the alleged head of  the Islamic State Jammu and Kashmir (ISJK) was among the four terrorists killed in a joint operation in Anantnag by the Indian Army and Jammu and Kashmir Police, authorities have said. The other terrorists have been identified as Majid Manzoor Dar, Aadil Rehman Bhat and Mohammad Ashraf Itoo. According to state police chief SP …

Students of Government Sree Devi Vilasam (SDV) UP School Neerkunnam in Kerala’s Alappuzha had an unusual companion among them on Wednesday as they sat down for mid-day meal.    S Suhas IAS, the District Collector who was visiting the school decided to join the students for the meal, as he wanted to test for himself the quality of the food …

Be it in winter or now in summers, Delhi’s air quality is as bad as it can get. In fact, India’s national capital has the worst air quality in the world and has been that way for some time now. And what is Delhi doing to combat it worsening air quality? Cutting down trees! Yes, you read it right. BCCL/Representational …