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Transport minister Nitin Gadkari speaks in the Lok Sabha.

Earliest passage of Motor Vehicles Bill is crucial to saving thousands...

More than 1.3 million people die each year as a result of road traffic crashes and around 50 million are severely...

7 Aug 2018 12:10 AM IST

Four members of a family were found stacked atop each other and buried in a pit in the backyard of their house in Keralas Idukki district. (Representational Image | AP)

Black magic, professional rivalry behind Kerala family murder, says...

Police said the murders were committed by Aneesh, who was a former helper of Krishnan, along with his aide Lijin.

6 Aug 2018 9:31 PM IST

The Unnao rape case has sparked nationwide protests.

Parliament passes bill to provide death penalty to child rape convicts

The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill 2018, which was passed in the Lok Sabha on July 30, was approved by a voice vote in...

6 Aug 2018 9:25 PM IST

The bill, passed by Lok Sabha on March 15, was passed by the Rajya Sabha after Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu held a meeting of leaders of Opposition parties, who had been protesting on various issues, resulting in adjournment of the Upper House. (Photo: File)

Bill to restore original SC/ST atrocity law unanimously passed by LS

The law states that no preliminary enquiry will be required for registering criminal case and an arrest wouldn't be...

6 Aug 2018 9:13 PM IST

The bill, passed by Lok Sabha on March 15, was passed by the Rajya Sabha after Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu held a meeting of leaders of Opposition parties, who had been protesting on various issues, resulting in adjournment of the Upper House. (Photo: File)

Parliament passes bill to grant constitutional status to OBC...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah termed as 'historic' the passage of the bill.

6 Aug 2018 9:01 PM IST

The Supreme Courts order on the SC/ST Act, that no arrests can be made under it without a prior probe, led to protests across the country. (Representational image)

No pre-arrest bail, surrender by Aug 13: SC tells 2 Kerala priests...

4 priests - Abraham Varghese, Job Mathew, Dr Johnson Mathew and Jaise K George - were booked by crime branch for raping...

6 Aug 2018 8:45 PM IST

The rape victims family has handed over the audio clip of the MLA to the local police and the SSP Upendra Agarwal has ordered a probe into the allegations.

Official arrested for 'molesting' 3 girls at Assam SOS Village

Loon Vaiphai (44), allegedly assaulted 3 minor girls when he was in a car with them on July 22, police said.

6 Aug 2018 8:27 PM IST

Shashi Tharoor was addressing a seminar on Standing up to hatred, violence and intolerance in contemporary India in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday. (Photo: Twitter Screengrab)

PM can wear 'outlandish headgear' but not skull cap, says Tharoor; BJP...

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju demanded that the Congress should apologise for Tharoor's comments.

6 Aug 2018 8:24 PM IST

Shashi Tharoor (Photo: Sondeep Shankar)

In today's India, engine oil would be thrown at Swami Vivekananda:...

Tharoor also claimed that communal violence, killing in the name of cow vigilantism had increased in the last 4 years.

6 Aug 2018 7:27 PM IST

Unless the states act to bring investigation and trial to a close within four months of a rape incident as is envisaged now, the toughest laws on the statute books are unlikely to be deterrent enough to stop these barbaric crimes. (Representational image)

Minor girl kidnapped, gangraped in moving car by 2 men in Rajasthan's...

Family members lodged a complaint with the police after the girl reached home and shared her ordeal with them.

6 Aug 2018 7:18 PM IST

A Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) supporters reacts a bulletin was released about party president M Karunanidhis health, in Chennai on Monday. (Photo: PTI)

Next 24 hours 'crucial' for Karunanidhi, supporters throng hospital

DMK chief Karunanidhi is on continuous monitoring and being treated with active medical support, the hospital added.

6 Aug 2018 7:09 PM IST

The process of the NRC update had started in December 2013 and the applications for it were invited in May-June 2015. The last date of submission of applications was August 31, 2015.

People applied till August 31, 2015 eligible to make claims in NRC:...

The final NRC will be published only after disposal of all claims, objections, corrections and date for its publication...

6 Aug 2018 6:49 PM IST