Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju and Aruna M. Bahuguna, Director of the National Police Academy, will release the report by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) on women police in South Asia on Wednesday. The report examines the situation of women in t ....

Ms Mukherjee was born on September 17, 1940 in Jessore (now in Bangladesh) and married Mr. Mukherjee on July 13, 1957. A graduate, Ms Mukherjee was an ardent fan of India’s national poet, Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore. She was a vocalist of Rabindra Sangeet and p ....

The package would change the “face and fate” of the State, he said. Inaugurating several national highway and skill development projects, the Prime Minister took a swipe at Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for not utilising Central funds but always demanding a ....

 In a midnight crackdown, police arrested five students of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) from its campus on charges of rioting. The arrests come after a group of striking students had on Monday gheraoed the institute director, Prashant Pathrabe, prot ....

In August 2014, India had called off scheduled talks between Foreign Secretaries in Islamabad over the Pakistan High Commissioner's meeting with Hurriyat leaders in Delhi, pointing to “new red lines” in engagement. “This is a red line we have drawn ....

The weekend tour of two young IT professionals took a tragic turn when they met with a fatal accident at Udhanapalli near here at forenoon on Saturday. Eleven others were injured when the SUV in which they were travelling turned turtle. The victims were employees of ....

The high point of the first day’s engagement was Mr. Modi’s visit to Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, the world’s third largest mosque, leaving some powerful images for consumption by a domestic audience. His balance of the domestic and the foreign during th ....

"This indiscretion on the part of the police has seriously impacted the pride and morale of all ranks of the three services and the veterans," the letter says. Observing that they had not approached the Prime Minister on the issue of One Rank One Pension (O ....

“Those who are familiar with Abu Dhabi, will know what a gesture this is,” he said. “Anyone who has been neglected for 34 years has every reason to feel angry with me, but the Crown Prince not only received me at the airport himself, but also brough ....

This is the 10th consecutive day that Pakistan has violated the ceasefire. There have been 45 violations of the 2003 ceasefire accord in August and over 240 ceasefire violations along the Indo-Pak border this year. “There was unprovoked firing of small arms and ....