- India
Parliamentary panel on Waqf Bill to hold first meet on Aug 22
New Delhi: The first meeting of the Parliament’s joint committee on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill will be held next week. The committee, chaired by BJP member Jagdambika Pal, will meet representatives of…
- World
New murder charges brought against Bangladesh’s ousted PM Hasina
Dhaka: A murder case was filed against Bangladesh’s former prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday over the death of a college student during the quota reform protests in the country, the latest…
- Sports
Vinesh returns to a rousing welcome after Paris heartbreak
New Delhi: Vinesh Phogat on Saturday received a grand welcome on her return to the country and after being feted by several supporters and ‘khap panchayats’ en route to her village Balali,…
- Delhi
Private hospitals join doctors’ strike in Delhi, shut down OPDs
New Delhi: With each passing day, a doctors’ strike over the alleged rape and killing of one of their colleagues in a Kolkata hospital is gaining momentum as major private hospitals in…
- India
Kolkata rape-murder case: IMA seeks PM Modi’s intervention over violence against doctors
New Delhi: The IMA on Saturday sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “benign intervention” to bring a central law to check violence against healthcare personnel and declare hospitals as safe zones with mandatory…
- India
Any attempt to bring UCC ‘unacceptable’, PM’s remarks on it ‘objectionable’: AIMPLB
New Delhi: Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi pitched for a “secular civil code”, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board on Saturday underlined the Law Commission’s 2018 assertion that a uniform…
- Telangana
Telangana Congress elated over survey giving thumbs up to CM Reddy’s govt
Hyderabad: Senior leaders in Telangana Congress have welcomed the findings of a survey titled ‘Pulse of People’ as it revealed that 72 per cent of the state’s residents were satisfied with the…
- India
Nirbhaya’s mother slams Mamata Banerjee, says CM failed, demands resignation
Ballia: Amid protests against the alleged rape and murder of a trainee doctor in West Bengal, the mother of Nirbhaya, the victim of the 2012 Delhi gang rape case, on Saturday demanded…
- Kerala
Wayanad landslides: Kerala govt expeditiously providing financial aid to those affected
Wayanad: The Kerala government is expeditiously providing financial aid to those affected by the landslides in Mundakkai and Chooralmala areas of Wayanad district with around Rs 72 lakh disbursed to 12 persons…
- India
Child marriage prohibition act should be applicable to all communities, says PIL
Indore: The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Saturday sought response from the Union government, state, and the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on a petition seeking uniform application of the…
- India
Mall in Noida gets hoax bomb threat on email
Noida: People were evacuated from DLF Mall of India in sector 18 here on Saturday, following a bomb threat email, with police later saying that nothing was found following anti-sabotage checks. Additional…
- India
Open to exploring more ways to increase India’s collaboration with IMF: FM
New Delhi: India is open to exploring more ways to increase its collaboration with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said during a meeting with IMF’s First Deputy Managing…
- India
Udaipur: Internet suspended after school stabbing sparks communal tension
Jaipur: Mobile internet was suspended for 24 hours in several areas of Udaipur and all schools were ordered to remain closed after a class 10 student stabbed another boy at a government…
- World
Interim govt in Bangladesh committed to hold free & fair elections: Yunus
Dhaka: The caretaker government in Bangladesh is committed to ensuring a transition to inclusive and pluralistic democracy and creating an environment in which “free, fair and participatory elections” can be held, its…
- Delhi
Kejriwal govt to start cashless medical facility for retired employees of Delhi: Atishi
New Delhi: The Arvind Kejriwal government will start a cashless medical facility for over 20,000 retired employees of the Delhi Vidyut Board, Power Minister Atishi said on Saturday. The file for the…
