India

Additional Director General of Police (prisons) Meera Borwankar visited the Central Prison in Nagpur to supervise the ongoing preparations for the scheduled hanging of Yakub Memon.

Delhi High Court will hold a special sitting on Sunday to decide whether Red FM, associated with Kalanithi Maran-promoted Sun TV.

There is a lot to be done at Rashtrapati Bhavan, President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said as he ushered in his fourth year in office.

Terming media as the fourth pillar of democracy, Shukla urged media to promote positive journalism. He also said photojournalists also play a significant role in media.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday greeted President Pranab Mukherjee on completion of three years in office and said the country has greatly benefited from his experience and wisdom.

Kumar, who is close to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, said that in case the 28 officers do not join duty on their new post by July 27, they shall stand relieved from their present posting with effect from July 27

The government on Friday said it has given permission to 36 TV channels to be uplinked from India and downlinked abroad under the uplinking guidelines.

The Bombay High Court on Friday granted an interim protection for 2 weeks to social activist Teesta Setalvad

Anju Maudgal Kadam, a former business journalist, and Ally Mathan, a perfumer, are two urban Indian women who share their love for sarees.

Lieutenant General R R Nimbhorkar, on Thursday assumed command of the White Knight Corps (16 corps) from Lieutenant General K H Singh.

Sri Lankan fishermen have reportedly warned their Indian counterparts that they would be attacked if they continued using banned fishing nets and damaged nets anchored in the Lankan sea.

In a written reply in Rajya Sabha, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said that polluted air, particularly the respirable particulate matter is one of the several factors responsible for morbidity and premature deaths.

The child was made to kneel down for several hours on the July 16 by a teacher for not doing her homework.

More than 150 tourists were stranded on the Leh-Manali road in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir last night due to landslides caused by heavy rainfall.

Singh had allegedly failed to acknowledge the presence of Chennithala by not saluting him at a passing out parade of women police personnel at Thrissur.

As per the criteria for assigning Smart City slots for each state and UT, based on equal weightage for urban population and number of urban local bodies and to ensure geographical equity, Puducherry has been assigned one slot under the Mission.