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Actor and Gurdaspur MP Sunny Deol at Parliament House in New Delhi on Monday. (Photo: SONDEEP SHANKAR)

17th Lok Sabha session begins

BJP members chant Jai Shri Ram' slogan.

18 Jun 2019 3:42 AM IST

The sources said, Election Commission would also ask law ministry to take call on its demand to extend constitutional protection to 2 election commissioners on lines of CEC. (Photo: File)

Congress seeks concurrent elections to 2 Rajya Sabha seats

The EC had cited two Delhi high court judgments in support of its decision to hold election to two seats separately.

18 Jun 2019 3:24 AM IST

Phone-tapping issue returning to haunt BJP?

Tankha cited the petition which was pending with the apex court for the past four years to justify his demand for a...

18 Jun 2019 3:21 AM IST

Tigers at the Sariska Tiger Reserve.

Tribals can help boost wildlife conservation'

Wildlife and human populations have peacefully and sustainably coexisted.

18 Jun 2019 3:18 AM IST

Indian Railways may stop providing blankets in AC coaches and instead ramp up the temperature to 24 degree celsius.

Railways asks its top officers to travel by train

The Railways has asked its officers to submit reports after every such travel so that corrective steps can be taken and...

18 Jun 2019 2:59 AM IST

BJP president Amit Shah

Zero tolerance against terror in Northeast: MHA

The home ministry had started several projects to strengthen surveillance along the international border with Myanmar.

18 Jun 2019 2:57 AM IST

Doctors of SMGS hospital wearing bandages on their heads protest in Jammu on Saturday to show solidarity with their counterparts in West Bengal. (Photo: PTI)

Healthcare affected across nation as doctors go on strike

Over 40,000 doctors boycott work in Maharashtra, Goa.

18 Jun 2019 2:45 AM IST

A police officer weeps near the coffin of colleague Arsheed Ahmad as he pays homage to Ahmad during a wreath laying ceremony in Srinagar on Monday. Police inspector Ahmad, who was critically injured in a militant attack in J&Ks Anantnag district on June 12, had succumbed to his injuries on Sunday afternoon at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. (Photo: AP)

J&K: Major killed, many injured in 2 terror attacks

The attacks took place a day after the authorities sounded a security high alert in the Kashmir Valley.

18 Jun 2019 2:41 AM IST

An Indian farmer at a small pond created to conserve rainwater. (Photo: AFP)

There is no standard blueprint for rural development

What we need instead are policy innovations tailored to local societal contexts, economic circumstances and political...

18 Jun 2019 2:40 AM IST

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi arrives at Parliament late, Congress MPs shaky

In the morning session, RPI leader Ramdas Athawale was heard asking about Rahul Gandhi's whereabouts.

18 Jun 2019 2:37 AM IST

BJP picks JP Nadda as its working president

Nadda, a Rajya Sabha MP and a former Union health minister, was the party's election in-charge for Uttar Pradesh in the...

18 Jun 2019 2:35 AM IST

Elderly widows chat while waiting for lunch at Mahila Ashram, a shelter home for widows in Vrindavan some 150 km south-east of New Delhi. (Photo: AFP)

Women who lose their husbands: Do they also give up the right to live?

Now, much water has flowed after the passage of the widow remarriage act piloted by Vidyasagar in colonial India.

18 Jun 2019 2:34 AM IST