Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday urged the opposition not to give a political colour to the government's bills for implementation of the women's reservation law and cautioned that they should be mindful that those who had opposed this in the past had suffered badly in elections.
Four children, aged between 10 and 13 years, drowned in a water-filled pit near a drain work site in Maharashtra’s Nanded on Thursday, police said.
The Supreme Court on Thursday sought the Centre's response on a PIL challenging the constitutional validity of certain provisions of the Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act, 1937, on the ground that those are allegedly discriminatory against women.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has asked Iran to ensure freedom and safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, a first such call issued by Beijing ever since Tehran started to put a squeeze on the critical waterway in the midst of its war with the US.
At least eight devotees, including five women, were killed and 10 others were injured after a Light Commercial Vehicle (LCV) collided with a tanker in Mantralayam of Kurnool district on Thursday, police said.
A representative body of Ulema (Islamic religious scholars) in Karnataka on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction over recent political developments surrounding the recently held Davanagere Assembly by-election and raised concerns about the representation of the minority community.
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain a plea seeking a direction to the Centre and others to frame guidelines for the display of the Ashoka Chakra on the national flag.
The opposition will boycott the election of the deputy chairman of the Rajya Sabha as a mark of protest against the Modi government not appointing a deputy speaker in the Lok Sabha for seven years, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said on Thursday.
In a major crackdown, the Bengaluru police on Thursday announced the arrest of 10 people allegedly involved in the sale of prohibited narcotic substances in parts of the city.
Opposition leaders from Kerala on Thursday reiterated their objections to the delimitation provisions in the Women's Reservation Amendment Bill set to be introduced in the Parliament, terming it as an "attack on democracy".
