New Delhi The Supreme Court on Friday chose to disagree with Vinton G. Cerf, considered one of the ‘fathers of the internet’, when he said internet can’t be elevated to the status of a human right and went on to declare ‘access to Internet’ a “constitutionally protected” right under ArticleRead More

New Delhi India has deployed its aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya in the Arabian Sea at a time China and Pakistan are holding a nine-day mega naval exercise in the region, a move seen as New Delhi sending a clear signal to its two neighbours. Top officials of the Naval headquartersRead More

New Delhi Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s absence from the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led industry meeting on Budget suggestions, here on Thursday, created ripples on Twitter as well as in general. According to sources, the finance minister was busy with some party-assigned work and could not attend the meeting. But theRead More

New Delhi The External Affairs Ministry on Thursday said the objective of the visit by foreign envoys to Jammu and Kashmir was for them to see firsthand efforts to normalise the situation there and termed the criticism that it was a guided tour unfounded. Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson RaveeshRead More

Hyderabad The southern states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh that have substantial Muslim population are set to witness more protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Population Register (NPR) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) after a meeting of the various organisations held here on Tuesday. They said theRead More

New Delhi Following is the chronology of events in the Nirbhaya case—the sensational gang rape-and-murder of a 23-year-old girl on December 16, 2012 — in which a Delhi court Tuesday ordered hanging of the four convicts on January 22 at 7 am in Tihar jail. Dec 16, 2012: Paramedical studentRead More

New Delhi Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar came down heavily on a British daily on Monday for referring to the masked mob that attacked JNU students and teachers as “nationalists” and asked it to stop predicting India’s disintegration at every opportunity. In a series of tweets slamming the British daily,Read More

New Delhi Government-aided minority-run educational institutions do not have an absolute right to appoint teachers, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday. A Bench of Justice Arun Mishra and Justice UU Lalit upheld the validity of the West Bengal Madrasah Service Commission Act, 2008, that set up a commission to appointRead More

Lucknow Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday alleged that all deaths during anti-CAA protests in Uttar Pradesh were caused by police bullets and said the BJP’s campaign in support of the Act was to “mislead” people. Yadav, who visited the residence of Mohammad Wakil killed during an anti-CAA protestRead More

New Delhi The BJP on Sunday claimed opposition parties are spreading confusion over a toll free number it has issued to seek people’s support on the amended Citizenship Act, and asserted that it has undertaken a positive exercise to spread awareness about the law. The BJP hit out at oppositionRead More