A day after damaged roads and bridges disrupted the Char Dham yatra, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat said on Friday that the yatra has been regulated, and not suspended. On Friday, yatra to Kedarnath, Badrinath, Gangotri, Yamunotri, and Hemkund Sahib remained hin ....

On the back foot in the row over its leaders’ purported help to Lalit Modi, the BJP on Friday alleged links between the former IPL boss and the Gandhi family as it pointed to claims by him of “running into” Priyanka Gandhi in London. The BJP, which char ....

Anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare has opposed the Maharashtra government’s move to prevent non-governmental organisations from using the words ‘anti-corruption’ or ‘corruption eradication’ in their names after allegations of dubious activi ....

Urbanisation should be viewed as an opportunity and urban centres should be viewed as growth engines, he said launching the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT), Smart Cities Mission, and Housing for All (Urban) here. “Under these sche ....

Religion-based violence in Indian society “continued to be a concern,” during the first year of Narendra Modi’s rule as Prime Minister, according to a report on worldwide human rights abuses released by the U.S. State Department In its annual Country Re ....

The Board had made it clear in its annual convention in Jaipur and the executive committee meeting in Lucknow on June 7 that Surya Namaskar and yoga, along with the recitation of the Bhagvad Gita, were not acceptable to Muslims. The Acting General Secretary of the Law ....

 The Indian Navy and Coast Guard rescued 14 crew members of a distressed merchant vessel that later sank, 15 km off the coast of Daman on Wednesday morning. All 14 on board cement carrier MV Coastal Pride were safely evacuated by helicopters to Umargaon beach in Guj ....

Lawyers and women’s rights activists were provoked to anger by the order that some of them termed ‘shocking’, ‘atrocious’, ‘patriarchal’, ‘going beyond the brief’ and outright ‘illegal’. Judge Devadass ....

The new IIMs will be located at Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), Bodh Gaya (Bihar), Sirmaur (Himachal Pradesh), Nagpur (Maharashtra), Sambalpur (Odisha) and Amritsar (Punjab). Each institute will start with an intake of 140 students for the post-graduate course. &l ....

 Nestle India has decided to destroy the recalled Maggi noodle stocks at cement plants nationwide. Salim Veljee, Director of Goa’s Food and Drugs Authority, said on Tuesday that the cement factories that had incinerators would use the recalled stocks as fuel f ....