“The Bar Council of India, which regulates the legal fraternity, and the Society of Indian Law Firms, which represents the interests of large law firms, have, in principle, agreed to the proposal,” Commerce Secretary Rajeev Kher told presspersons on Monday. ....

10:10 am: Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has secured 58,281 votes by the end of sixth round of counting. CPI candidate C.Mahendran lags behind with 3,737 votes Party     No. of votes AIADMK     58,281 CPI     3,737 Posta ....

The seemingly ironic fact that both these documents had remained beyond the public domain for close to seven decades has been revealed by the Central Information Commission (CIC) to an Odisha-based Right to Information (RTI) activist in an instant, though landmark, deci ....

In contrast, a substantial number of popular Tamil movies of 2013 and 2014 had backward caste lead characters. For an insight into the depiction of caste in Bollywood, The Hindu analysed all Hindi movies released in 2013 and 2014 for which information was publicly av ....

 In a record of sorts, the office of Vice President Hamid Ansari has responded within two days to an RTI application seeking to know the reason for his absence from Yoga Day celebrations held here last Sunday, saying he was not invited for the event. Public authorit ....

The calico cat was appointed stationmaster at the Kishi station in western Japan in 2007. Donning her custom-made stationmaster’s cap, Tama quietly sat at the ticket gate welcoming and seeing off passengers. The cat quickly attracted tourists and became world-famo ....

11:45 am: In a bid to make the metro disabled-friendly, physically-challenged persons can request for longer duration of train stoppage by pressing a long-stop button. An area has been assigned for two wheelchairs on both ends of each train. The elevators ar the Alan ....

In a major embarrassment to the BJP, a senior party MLA and former minister in Maharashtra has been ‘caught on tape’ criticising the policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ruing the lack of internal democracy within the party and revealing the influence of mo ....

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday broke his silence on the arrest of Janata Dal(U) MLA Anant Singh, saying the rule of law would prevail in the State and he was not under pressure from anyone. His clarification comes after Lalu Prasad, chief of the Rashtriya Ja ....

The BJP-led government in Maharashtra, which assumed power last October, is facing its first major political crisis with five senior Ministers in the dock over various charges. The most serious allegations have been levelled against State Women and Child Welfare Minister ....