Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi on Friday welcomed the Supreme Court's verdict to open the gates of the Sabarimala Temple in Kerala to women of all ages, saying that temples cannot be run like clubs.

Indians should let go the colonial mindset and greet people with 'namaskar' rather than with 'good morning', 'good afternoon' and 'good evening', Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu said on Friday.

After BJP’s high drama in the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the Congress and the JDS alliance has retained its position in the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP).

Thousands of medicine stores and retail businesses remained closed in Odisha as they joined a nationwide strike on Friday.

In a 2:1 majority judgement, the Supreme Court on Friday refused to interfere in the arrest of five activists in the Bhima Koregaon case in Maharashtra. It also declined to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT), allowing Pune police to go ahead with its probe.

Police in Bihar on Friday seized 12 AK-47 rifles during a search operation in Munger district, a senior official said.

Facebook has admitted that the phone numbers that its users provide for security purposes are being used to target them with ads, the media reported.

Mangaluru: As per the nationwide chemists’ strike call given by All India Organisation of Chemists & Druggists (AIOCD) against online sale of medicine through e-pharmacies, maximum medicine stores remained closed today.