The authorities have made elaborate security arrangements for holding a peaceful ‘Janmashtami’ celebration on Monday, which will also be observed as the death anniversary of slain VHP leader Swami Laxamanananda Saraswati.

Political parties in Jammu and Kashmir may make poll promises they deem fit but if any of them advocates for stone pelters, terrorists and those who take funds from Pakistan in their manifesto, strict action will be taken by the Centre, the BJP said on Sunday.

In the wake of many women actors narrating their horrific sexual assault experiences in the cinema industry, the Kerala government on Sunday formed a special team to probe the atrocities faced by them.

The BJP on Sunday hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the decision to bring a unified pension scheme for central government employees and hit out at the Congress, asking why it has not implemented its promise of bringing back the old pension scheme in Himachal Pradesh and other states where it is in power.

Of the 18,179 adoptions recorded since 2019, only 1,404 involved children with special needs even as the absolute numbers of adoptions saw an increase over the next five years, according to official data.

A Muslim food delivery agent working for Zomato was allegedly assaulted and held captive by four men in Lucknow’s Gomti Nagar area on Tuesday. The victim, Mohammad Aslam, claims he was targeted because of his religious identity.

Dotted with palatial bungalows and sprawling campuses, a cluster of three villages stands out as an outlier in Madhya Pradesh’s Rajgarh district on economic prosperity. Just that it is powered by activities on the wrong side of the law.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said his government has done more for women in the last 10 years than was done by all the previous regimes since Independence.