BBC recently announced a list of 100 ‘inspiring and influential’ women from around the world for 2020. The list include the 81-year-old Indian Bilkis Bano who was the lead protester at the Shaheen Bagh where she protested against the Anti-Citizenship Amendment Act.

Mumbai: Floral tributes were paid on Thursday to the martyrs who laid down their lives while fighting terrorists who attacked Mumbai on November 26, 2008.

Aurangabad: Taking a swipe at the BJP over a draft ordinance passed by the Uttar Pradesh government amid uproar over inter-faith marriages, AIMIM MP Imtiaz Jaleel on Wednesday dared the saffron party to "set an example and act" against its leaders Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Shahnawaz Hussain.

Suri (WB): West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh on Wednesday alleged that saffron party workers on their way to attend a rally in Birbhum district were attacked by Trinamool Congress activists, and asked his partymen to carry bamboo sticks while coming out on the street to "strike back when needed".

Severe cyclone 'Nivar' would intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm and it is likely to cross the coast between Tamil Nadu and Puducherry before dawn on Thursday, the India Meteorological Department said.

As the storage level touched 3,000 million cubic feet in the Chembarambakkam reservoir as against it full capacity of 3,645 Mcft, authorities on Wednesday began releasing about 1,000 cusecs into the Adyar river as a precautionary measure.

 Callers will soon be required to add '0' prefix for making calls from landlines to mobile phones in the country, with the telecom department asking telcos to make necessary arrangements by January 1 to implement the new system.

 Lalu Prasad is trying to poach NDA MLAs in Bihar in a bid to topple the Nitish Kumar government and help the Grand Alliance helmed by his RJD achieve power in the state, senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi claimed on Tuesday.