The NGT has asked environmental activist and lawyer M. C. Mehta, who is a court commissioner in the matter, to submit the final inspection report on the felling of 4,000 trees around the Taj by December 16. According to the report, a former Agra DFO had allegedly cut ....

The six Britons identified as John Armstrong Wigton, Nick Dunn Ashington, Ray Tindall Chester, Paul Towers, Nicholas Simpson Catterick and Billy Irving Connel are all ex-military men. They have been detained in Tamil Nadu as their passports have been confiscated by the ....

The high-profile opening event at which President Barack Obama is to join China’s President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is intended to signal the seriousness with which climate change is being approached at CoP21, the conference of member countrie ....

The phone call fixing the much sought-after appointment came out of the blue. Make it short, was the request. Can we? Is it possible to keep a conversation with Shah Rukh Khan quick and snappy? On the flipside, what is there left to ask SRK that he hasn’t been ask ....

He ruled out any review of the Constitution and reached out to the Opposition saying the ruling side does not believe in forcing decisions through majority but believes in working through consensus. Replying to a two-day long debate in the Lok Sabha to commemorate th ....

But with a conversation taking place at the highest possible level for the first time, it finally broke the ice between the government and the principal Opposition party — and held out some hope of an agreement . Indeed, emerging from the discussions, Union Fin ....

A one-year-old boy fell into a borewell here in Pulkal mandal at about 7:00 a.m. on Saturday. The boy was identified as Rakesh. Police officials and medical teams reached the spot within an hour and commenced rescue operations. Failure to seal the top of the failed bo ....

 In a legal victory for Union Law Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda, the Supreme Court on Friday gave him a clean chit in a building law violation case and declared that the Karnataka politician had never abused his power to “arm-twist” local authorities to tur ....

Repair works on the National Highway Manubolu in Nellore district has been delayed with the floodwaters not receding as expected. Transport and District In-charge Minister Sidda Raghava Rao, Irrigation Minister Devineni Umamaheswara Rao and senior government officials ar ....

A draft of the said act called as the ‘Maharashtra Prohibition of Social Boycott Act, 2015’ which was published on the state government’s website on Wednesday has termed any action of social boycott as crime. Maharashtra in recent times has witnesse ....