While hearing a petition against confinement of egg laying hens in India for practically entire duration of their productive life to barren wire battery cages, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday gave six weeks’ time to the Centre to finalise a draft which should contain rules after consulting all stakeholders. The court order came while […]

Prayer sessions and masses were held here to observe the 21st death anniversary of Mother Teresa, a saint who is well known for her unwavering commitment to uplift the poor. Scores of nuns and shelter house inmates residing in Mother House, which is the global headquarters of Missionaries of Charity (MoC), lit candles […]

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday launched a massive search operation in 40 places in Chennai, including the house of Tamil Nadu Health Minister C Vijayabaskar, in connection with the multi-crore Gutka scam. Houses of Tamil Nadu Director General of Police (DGP) TK Rajendran at Mogappair, former DGP S George […]

The police station at Dehradun’s Prem Nagar is different. What makes it unusual is, it houses a school for underprivileged kids. The learning centre started with just a handful of kids but over the time it has become a success story of the region and now runs in two shifts with […]

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday shared pictures of Mansarovar lake during his Kailash Yatra and added that ‘there is no hatred here’. Taking to his official Twitter handle, Gandhi expressed contentment on his trip to Kailash Mansarovar and said that “a man goes to Kailash when it calls him.” He further described the waters of […]

The stepmother of a 25-year-old Master of Business Administration (MBA) graduate, who recently joined the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen group, urged her son to shun the path of violence and return home. The youth, identified as Haroon Abbas Wani, an MBA student from Katra University, was earlier working for a private company. However, […]

At least seven people died and 10 others were left injured on Tuesday after a collision between two buses in Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh. The Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) of Aligarh, A. K. Sahani confirmed the incident and aid, “There was a collision between a bus, with a group travelling from Aligarh to Firozabad to attend a […]

After torrential rains in the region washed away the only bridge built on a river two months back, the locals of a village in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli are forced to use a rope to cross the river, even when the water current is high. Villagers have tied a rope at banks of both […]