New Delhi, Five months after the Supreme Court directed the Centre to grant OBC status to transgender sex, the government has sought clarification on it saying that all such people cannot be clubbed under OBC category as some of them are SC/ST by birth. The Centre submitted that there isRead More

New Delhi,In a reprieve to bar owners in Kerala, the Supreme Court on Thursday asked the state government to maintain status quo and not implement its new liquor policy till September 30. The SC also asked the Kerala HC to decide expeditiously pleas challenging the state government’s new liquor policy,Read More

New Delhi,A police case or FIR should be filed against the BJP’s Yogi Adityanath for allegedly promoting religious enmity, the Election Commission said today. The BJP’s star campaigner in Uttar Pradesh delivered a speech recently designed to incite communal tension, the Commission has found. It has also written to theRead More

New Delhi, Messing up the process of government formation in Delhi, a delegation of Aam Aadmi Party leaders on Wednesday met Lt Governor Najeeb Jung and urged him to “revise” his September 4 letter to President Pranab Mukherjee seeking permission to invite the Bharatiya Janata Party to form a “stableRead More

New Delhi, The Central Election Committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party met under the Presidentship of Shri Amit Shah . Meeting was attended by Shri Narendra Modi, Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh, Minister of Home Affairs, Smt. Sushma Swaraj, Minister of External Affairs and all the members of the Central ElectionRead More

Srinagar,  Anger mounted on Wednesday over the slow pace of rescue operations in Jammu and Kashmir even as chief minister Omar Abdullah said his government was “overwhelmed” by the scale of deadly flooding. “We have really been overwhelmed. We have been overwhelmed by the scale of the problem,” Omar toldRead More

New Delhi, In what may spell trouble for the ruling BJP, its national president Amit Shah was on Wednesday chargesheeted for a hate speech made by him in the run-up to the General Elections by the local police in Muzaffarnagar, which was hit by communal violence last year. According toRead More

New Delhi,  A special court today fixed November 10 for commencing final arguments in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case in which former Telecom Minister A Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi and 15 others, including three firms, are facing trial. Special CBI Judge O P Saini, who is exclusively dealing withRead More

Mumbai,Backing BJP leader Swami Adityanath, the Shiv Sena today said ‘love jihad’ is part of a “global conspiracy” to destroy Hindu culture. In an editorial in its mouthpiece ‘Saamana’, the Sena cited RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s statement where he said that Hindu girls should beware of ‘love jihad’. “Hindus inRead More

Kabul, As Afghanistan prepares for a democratic transition of power, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Afghan President Hamid Karazi on Wednesday held wide-ranging talks on political and security situation in the war-torn country and agreed to intensify cooperation in areas like security and defence. During the meeting, Swaraj expressedRead More