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04 Feb 2018

India

Pride parades are going 'desi' in India's smaller cities

Guwahati is one week away from its fifth pride parade. Other smaller Indian towns are also beginning their LGBTQI movement.

04 Feb 2018

Jammu And Kashmir

Kashmir shocker: Minor boy sexually assaulted by Madrassa teacher

In a shocking incident of sexual assault, a minor boy was allegedly sodomized by an Islamic teacher in a Madrassa in North Kashmir's Baramulla district.

04 Feb 2018

India

Railways announces a massive recruitment drive for 26,502 vacancies

In one its biggest recruitment drives, the Railways has announced 26,502 vacancies for assistant loco pilots and technician posts.

04 Feb 2018

Uttar Pradesh

UP school in trouble for teaching book on Zakir Naik

A UP school is in trouble for allegedly teaching students books where controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik is hailed as a "hero."

04 Feb 2018

Karnataka

Karnataka: Man hit by bus, dragged for 70kms

In a disturbing incident, a man hit by a bus in Karnataka was dragged for 70kms from one station to another before someone noticed his body stuck in the undercarriage.

04 Feb 2018

India

Indians ignore safety instructions on flights, endanger themselves: Official report

We have known this for long, but an official report has finally confirmed it: Indians habitually break rules, even to the point of endangering themselves.

04 Feb 2018

India

Budget 2018: Rs. 50cr to assign cows Aadhaar-like unique IDs

The Budget 2018 has been hailed for its emphasis on agriculture and related sectors. Of the many schemes approved, a mission to assign unique Aadhaar-like IDs to cows was allotted Rs. 50cr.

04 Feb 2018

Gujarat

Traders found using Rs. 15,000 software to illegally access biometrics

Amid a raging debate on safety of Aadhaar information (or the lack thereof), police in Gujarat have busted a ring that used stolen biometric data for unauthorized profits.

03 Feb 2018

Yogi Adityanath

15 police encounters in two days in Yogi's UP

As many as 24 criminals were arrested and one gangster was killed in 15 police encounters across 10 districts in Uttar Pradesh.

03 Feb 2018

India

Jodhpur: US Air Force general flies fighter jet Tejas

American Air Force General David L Goldfein on Saturday became the first foreign military chief to fly India's light combat aircraft Tejas.

03 Feb 2018

India

Government announces Modicare, but can it afford it?

As was largely expected, PM Modi's government announced a people-friendly budget, in a bid for getting re-elected to office in 2019.

03 Feb 2018

India

Trouble for people depositing more than Rs. 15lakh during demonetization

Indians who bank-deposited unaccounted cash over Rs. 15 lakh during demonetization are now under government scanner.

UP liquor shops to now introduce cashless payments

It is now mandatory for all liquor retailers in Uttar Pradesh to install point of sale (PoS) machines to enable electronic payments through credit/debit cards, as per the new state excise policy.

03 Feb 2018

India

PM Modi's book gives advice on how to handle exam-stress

Ahead of this year's board exams, Narendra Modi is set to launch his fifth book - the first book he's ever written on exam stress.

03 Feb 2018

Haryana

J&K CM demands probe after assault on Kashmiri students

After reports of two Kashmiri college students getting assaulted in Haryana surfaced, Jammu and Kashmir CM Mehbooba Mufti demanded a probe into the issue, and urged the Haryana government to take stringent action against the perpetrators.

03 Feb 2018

India

Delhi HC to AAP: "For Heaven's sake, do your duty"

AAP's whining, that it isn't getting support from other authorities, has now exasperated the Delhi HC.

03 Feb 2018

Delhi

Delhi-murder: "I carried my son, he died in my lap"

A 23-year-old wedding photographer was stabbed in front of his parents on a busy street in West Delhi, allegedly by the family members of the Muslim woman he was courting.

03 Feb 2018

India

Pune's Shruti Shrikhande tops UPSC CDS exam among girls

Shruti Shrikhande, a 22-year-old from Pune, has topped the Combined Defence Services (CDS) examination among girls, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) recently announced.

02 Feb 2018

Dalit

Hyderabad: Girl humiliated for not paying school fees, kills self

A 14-year-old Dalit girl hanged herself to death at her Hyderabad house on Thursday evening after being punished and humiliated in school for not paying fees.

02 Feb 2018

India

Supreme Court dismisses plea seeking gender-neutral laws for sexual crimes

India is nowhere close to accepting that men too can be victims of sexual harassment and assault.

02 Feb 2018

Delhi

Delhi sealing: Relief for traders as DDA clears three amendments

The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has finally provided some relief to traders from the ongoing sealing drive.

02 Feb 2018

India

Remembering Khushwant Singh on his 103rd birth anniversary

How does one eulogize a writer who penned his own obituary and epitaph in his prime?

02 Feb 2018

Lucknow

Days after major bureaucratic reshuffle, UP transfers 26 IPS officers

The UP government has transferred 26 IPS officers, including the additional director general (ADG), inspector general (IG), deputy inspector general (DIG) and superintendent of police (SP).

02 Feb 2018

India

#DecodingBudget: After Jaitley's budget, are you richer or poorer?

After FM Arun Jaitley's politically-charged budget, there were few happy faces. Though Modi's government might have wooed farmers, poor and senior citizens, the middle class and salaried workforce were left high and dry.

02 Feb 2018

Telangana

19-year-old allegedly raped in Hyderabad cinema hall by 'Facebook friend'

Hyderabad Police have arrested a man for allegedly raping a teenager in a theater.

02 Feb 2018

Haryana

Ram Rahim Singh chargesheeted in forced mass castration case

The CBI has filed a chargesheet against former Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in a 2014 castration case.

02 Feb 2018

Mumbai

Youth orders phone online, receives detergent bar

Some days back, a Mumbai youth ordered an iPhone 8 from Flipkart, but the parcel he received gave him a shock.

02 Feb 2018

West Bengal

Goa has promised to ban public drinking, but can it?

The Manohar Parrikar government in Goa seems adamant to remove the "social ill" of public drinking.

02 Feb 2018

Delhi

Delhi: 14-year-old boy allegedly beaten to death in school

Months after the Ryan murder case, a Class 9 student in Delhi's Karawal Nagar was found unconscious in his school toilet after allegedly being beaten by his schoolmates.

02 Feb 2018

India

Just 28% urban Indians live in rented houses: Economic Survey

Only 28% of India's urban population lives in rented houses today, a sharp contrast from the housing pattern in 1961 when more than half of us (54%) didn't own a house and lived in a rented one, finds the Economic Survey for 2017-18.

01 Feb 2018

Delhi High Court

Delhi HC asks government to examine Rs. 50, Rs. 200-notes

The Delhi High Court asked both the RBI and the Centre to review the newly released Rs. 50 and Rs. 200 notes.

01 Feb 2018

India

#DecodingBudget: Jaitley announces new GOBAR Dhan scheme

While presenting the budget in the Lok Sabha, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced a new scheme called GOBAR Dhan for solid waste management, among other agricultural reforms.

01 Feb 2018

India

SC Rift: CJI makes roster system for case allocation public

The Supreme Court has made public a roster system for allocation of cases to judges.

01 Feb 2018

India

#DecodingBudget: Jaitley announces Modicare, world's biggest government-funded scheme

In one of the biggest budget announcements, FM Arun Jaitley unveiled a new National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS).

01 Feb 2018

India

#DecodingBudget: Jaitley used "farmers" 30 times, "youth" just thrice

People talk more about things that matter deeply. If we were to say the same about FM Arun Jaitley's 2018 Budget speech, it might just hint at the priorities of the government.

01 Feb 2018

Astronauts

Celebrating Kalpana Chawla, 15 years after her death

Seven astronauts were killed today 15 years ago, after their space shuttle disintegrated on entering the Earth's atmosphere, 16 minutes away from landing. Kalpana Chawla, the first woman of Indian-origin to space-travel, was one of them.

01 Feb 2018

India

Reactions to the Budget 2018: Who said what?

This year's budget, with its emphasis on the agriculture and health sector, has received a wide variety of reactions from corporate heads and political figures alike.

01 Feb 2018

India

#DecodingBudget: What does India Inc think of Budget 2018?

At 11am, India Inc tuned in to watch FM Arun Jaitley present the government's last full-fledged Budget before 2019.

01 Feb 2018

India

#DecodingBudget: Who are the biggest winners and losers this time?

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has delivered the crucial Budget 2018, which is the last full-fledged Budget for the incumbent Modi-led government before 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

01 Feb 2018

India

#DecodingBudget: Here's what's got costlier, and what has become cheaper

The Budget 2018 had its focus on several key aspects of the economy, but the common man was not one of them.