Now female, widower male government employees in Maharashtra entitled to 180 days of special leave for children
Mumbai: Female government employees in Maharashtra, as well as their widower male colleagues with children below the age of 18, will be entitled to 180 days of special leave to look after them. A decision to this effect...
Shia Waqf Board: Muslims should stop eating beef
Waseem Rizvi, Shia Waqf Board: "Muslims should stop eating beef. Killing of cows should stop. Meat of cows is 'haram' in Islam as well. You can't stop mob lynching, security can't be deployed everywhere. So a law should be made...
Backed BJP to prevent it from breaking Cong, NCP: Uddhav
Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray today claimed that had his party not supported the BJP to form the government in Maharashtra in 2014, the latter would have come to power by breaking the Opposition Congress and NCP. In the 2nd...
Give up Eating Beef, Develop Right Sanskaar: RSS Leader Indresh Kumar’s Solution to Stop Lynchings
New Delhi: In the wake of Friday's lyncing incident at Alwar in Rajasthan, the government has constituted a high level committee to check cases of mob lynching, but that did not stop an RSS leader from coming up...
Supreme Court Refuses To Stay Ban On Book On Baba Ramdev
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the Delhi High Court's interim order banning the publication and sale of a book purportedly on the life of yoga guru Ramdev, which he claimed contained defamatory...
Here’s A Record Mumbai Will Definitely Win; Man Wants Guinness Book Entry For Most Potholes
Every year during the month of June, July, all we hear about are stories related to Mumbai rains, water-logging, potholes related deaths, and BMC claiming everything is right. This has been the tale of Mumbai for as long as one...
Gauri Lankesh murder: Two more arrested from Hubli, Karnataka police believe they are ‘close to cracking case’
Bengaluru: Two more people have been arrested by the Karnataka Police’s Special Investigating Team (SIT) in the journalist Gauri Lankesh murder case. The two suspects, identified as Amit and Ganesh, were arrested from Hubli under the Arms Act, bringing the...
26/11 plotter David Headley battling for life after attack in US prison
David Headley, Pakistani-American convicted in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, is battling for his life after being attacked by two inmates at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago. Headley was reportedly attacked on July 8 by two other inmates as he...
HC quashes CBI’s look out circular against Karti
The Madras high court today quashed a look out circular (LOC) issued by the Central Bureau of Investigation against Karti Chidambaram, son of former Union minister P Chidambaram, in connection with the INX Media case. A bench comprising Chief Justice Indira...
Is the finance minister sleeping? HC asks on non-functioning of DRT
The Bombay high court expressed annoyance today over the non-functioning of the Debts Recovery Tribunal, whose premises in Mumbai were closed following a fire over a month ago, and sought to know 'if the finance minister of the country was...
BJP may dissolve Maharashtra Assembly
MUMBAI: BJP president Amit Shah is seriously considering the dissolution of the Maharashtra Assembly. If that does go through, Maharashtra will also go to the polls this year along with Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhatisgarh. The Shiv Sena, an ally of...
In Modi’s brutal new India, people are left to die: Rahul on Alwar lynching
Rahul Gandhi' @RahulGandhi tweets, "Policemen in #Alwar took 3 hrs to get a dying Rakbar Khan, the victim of a lynch mob, to a hospital just 6 KM away. Why? They took a tea-break en route. This is...
No blanket ban on protests at Jantar Mantar: SC
The Supreme Court today said there cannot be a "complete ban" on holding protests and sit-ins at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, and asked the Centre to frame guidelines for according sanctions to such events. A bench...
NASA set to launch world’s first mission to touch the Sun
NASA is on schedule to launch mankind's first mission to the Sun, a car sized probe that will swoop to within 4 million miles of the solar surface, facing heat and radiation like no spacecraft before. The Parker...
Kalyan jewellers withdraws controversial ad starring Bachchan
MUMBAI: A leading jewellery chain has withdrew a one-and-a-half minute long advertisement featuring bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan and his daughter after it came under attack from a bank union which said it was aimed at creating 'distrust' in the banking system. ...
Our Women Are Unsafe Today, But BJP Busy Protecting Cows: Uddhav Thackeray
MUMBAI: Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, whose party abstained from the no-trust vote moved against the NDA government, said BJP’s idea of Hindutva is different from theirs. The Sena chief also found fault with the way the BJP was protecting...
Multiple people shot in Toronto: Reports
A number of people have been shot in Toronto, Canadian media report, quoting police. Reports say that the shooting began outside a restaurant on Danforth Avenue near Logan Avenue in Greektown, Toronto Unconfirmed reports say that as many as 10 people were...
Miffed with Sena over no-trust vote, Amit Shah asks party workers to prepare to go solo in ’19
In Mumbai on Sunday , Amit Shah along with Devendra Fadnavis visited to see Lata Mangeshkar MUMBAI: BJP president Amit Shah has made it clear to party workers in Maharashtra that there would be no alliance with bitter ally...
Amit Shah meets Lata Mangeshkar as part of BJP’s ‘contact for support’ campaign
Mumbai: BJP president Amit Shah on Sunday met melody queen Lata Mangeshkar at her home here as part of the party's "contact for support" campaign. Shah was scheduled to meet Mangeshkar on June 6 but the visit was cancelled...
No GST on sanitary napkin
In a major step, the GST Council has exempted sanitary napkins from goods and services tax, Delhi finance minister Manish Sisodia told the media. Earlier, there was a 12% levy of tax on sanitary napkins....
Modi uses hate, fear and anger to build his narrative: Rahul
Continuing his attack on the prime minister, Congress president Rahul Gandhi today said that Narendra Modi uses hate, fear and anger to build his narrative. "The point of yesterday's debate in Parliament...PM uses Hate, Fear and Anger in...
