India

The Supreme Court had in September last year paved the way for entry of women of all ages into the Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala, lifting the ban on women in the age group of 10 to 50 from worshipping at the shrine.

In this interview with CNBC-TV18, Chandrasekaran dwells on his strategy for the company, group firms such as Tata Motors and Vistara, on the Tatas’ interest in bidding for government-owned Air India, among a raft of topics.

Loss of elephant habitat is linked to expanding Areca nut plantations in the Garo Hills district and increase in rubber plantations along Assam-Meghalaya border in Assam's Goalpara district.

As many as 4000 families displaced from the seven relief camps of Tripura are demonstrating against the government’s decision to discontinue ration supply even before the completion of the ninth repatriation process.

The accident took place near village Samroli in Udhampur district around 2 am when the driver of the truck lost control over the vehicle while moving from Srinagar to Jammu with a Bhakerwal family.

The child from a nearby slum came strolling by and touched the gate. The woman saw the child in agony and rushed to help, but got electrocuted herself in the process.

Lawyers and police clashed at Tis Hazari Court complex during which at least 10 police personnel and several lawyers were injured while 17 vehicles vandalised, according to officials and eyewitnesses.

Celebrations at Lalu Prasad's home used to be the highlight of the Chhath festival in state capital. But things seem to have changed now with the RJD chief away in Ranchi serving a jail term and his two sons having had a falling out with each other.

The ED, in its affidavit filed in response to 74-year-old Chidambaram's bail petition, said the contention of the senior Congress leader that no offence is made out against him is "untenable in law" and his plea is liable to be rejected.

Balla Ravindranath said he started receiving messages from an unknown international number to his Whatsapp claiming to be from a Canada-based Citizen Labs since October 7, saying they were conducting a survey on the hacking, which the lawyer ignored.

The Panchkula police had booked Honeypreet and other Dera followers on the charges of sedition and criminal conspiracy in connection with the Panchkula violence case.

Minister for Information and Public Relations Perni Venkataramaiah said the government order was not wrong and not aimed at muzzling the freedom of the press.

Noting that the pollution situation has worsened in Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the Centre as well as the governments of Punjab and Haryana should give a timeline to stop stubble burning.

The government is also questioning the timing of the disclosure of the hacking incident, particularly against the backdrop of the Centre seeking three months' time from the Supreme Court to come up with rules to curb misuse of social media in the country.

A bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar issued notice to the Finance Ministry, Delhi government, RBI and the PMC bank directing them to indicate their stand on the plea demanding 100 percent insurance cover for customers' money deposi...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee termed the attack as pre-planned and said that a strong investigation should be carried out in the matter.