The Nair Service Society, the Akhila Bharatha Ayyappa Seva Sanghom, and Sabarimala Tantris (chief priests) have strongly opposed the idea of permitting women of all age groups entry to the Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple. Responding to the observations made by the Supreme Cour ....

Central intelligence agencies were unaware that the phones belonging to former Gurdaspur Superintendent of Police Salwinder Singh and his jeweller friend Rajesh Verma were in the custody of the terrorists till they dialled a Pakistani number already under the surveillance o ....

The Congress on Monday demanded the resignation of the Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, accusing him of engaging in “crony capitalism” by handing over a contract worth Rs.1,050 crore for the construction of the Zojila Pass Tunnel in Jammu ....

They said that raids were carried out in Gujranwala, Jhelum and Bahawalpur districts and an unspecified number of people were arrested. “Probe has been going to ascertain if they were involved in the attack or some of them facilitated it,” they said. T ....

“Why can you not let a woman enter? On what basis are you prohibiting women entry... What is your logic? Women may or may not want to go (to worship at Sabarimala), but that is her personal choice,” Justice Dipak Misra, who headed a three-judge Special Bench ....

With Assembly elections due in less than three months, the State unit of the Congress party has almost unanimously and publicly started insisting that it would be “wise for the highest leadership” to convey a decision regarding a Bihar-style grand alliance with ....

Mr. Singh, who is at present a Superintendent of Police rank officer posted as Assistant Commandant of the 75th battalion of Punjab Armed Police after he was removed as SP (headquarters) Gurdaspur, had allegedly given contradictory statements about his kidnapping and se ....

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 ....