But in doing so, the Centre has circumvented a May 7, 2014 judgment in which the Supreme Court hails the very same reason to ban jallikattu as plain act of cruelty shown to a dumb animal. It had held that this “sport” was grossly against the Tamil culture an ....

Based on a recreation of the scene of crime and technological inputs, the NIA said the terrorists had entered from the rear of the airbase after snapping the barbed wire fence. Under the cover of a tree, they scaled the 11-foot-high perimeter wall and entered the premis ....

The delay till Monday set off speculation that the BJP could use the time to put forward certain conditions of support. However, party general secretary Ram Madhav who had helped midwife the PDP-BJP alliance in the State remained tight-lipped. “We cannot rev ....

The magistrate, taking into account that the accused Mahendra Singh Dhoni had not presented himself before the court inspite of summons being served on him, issued a non bailable warrant against the cricketer, who is in Australia now. However, the other accused in th ....

From January 1, night-time ban on vehicular movement has been imposed on three minor roads in the Kali Tiger Reserve (formerly Dandeli-Anshi Tiger Reserve) in Uttara Kannada district. While welcoming the move, wildlife activist Giridhar Kulkarni said State Highway 34 (A ....

Participating in an event to mark the completion of one year since Maithripala Sirisena became President, Mr. Gandhi, who served here as High Commissioner during 2000-2002, said “all that made the earlier Constitution vulnerable would have to be kept firmly out an ....

Both Mr. Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe have, on a number of occasions in the recent months, spoken of the need for finding a meaningful answer to the question. Minorities, both Tamils and Muslims, are keen that the government makes substantial progres ....

Many in Iran before the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution believed Princess Ashraf served as the true power behind her brother, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and pushed him into taking power in a 1953 coup engineered by the U.S. Immortalised in her royal prime by ....

The absence of government approval has apparently caused the demolition of a giant gold painted statue of Communist China’s founding father Mao Zedong. The AFP news agency is citing the People’s Net, a news portal linked with People’s Daily, the mouthpi ....

Domestic violence. Gang shootouts. Accidents. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have lost brothers and sisters, or buried their own children. We’re the only advanced nation on earth that sees this kind of mass violence with this frequency. A national crisis li ....