Appointment on compassionate grounds is a concession, not a right and the object of granting such employment is to enable the affected family to tide over a sudden crisis, the Supreme Court has said.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi arrived in this historic town on Monday afternoon for the party's ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra in Karnataka.
A person was killed, and 67 others were injured on Monday when an overloaded private bus turned turtle in the Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.
BJP leader Manikanta Rathod has been deported by the Kalaburagi police to Shivamogga district for year.
The Indian Air Force scrambled fighter jets to intercept a civilian Mahan Air flight from Tehran headed for Guangzhou in China on Monday morning after a bomb threat, people familiar with the development said.
An old factory collapsed while it was being demolished here on Monday, leaving a labourer dead and three injured, police said.
Navaratri celebration was soured up in a village near Bhopal on Sunday, with people of two communities indulging in a fight with each other
The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Monday inducted the first fleet of indigenously-built Light Combat Helicopter (LCH), which has been developed primarily for mountain warfare after a requirement for it was felt during the Kargil war in 1999.
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday said all members of the congress party wish to take on the BJP rather than each other.
Canadian authorities have denied any vandalism at a recently unveiled park named 'Shri Bhagavad Gita' in Brampton city and clarified that the reported blank sign was left during the repair work, hours after India condemned the incident and urged the city administration to take prompt action.
