Ahmedabad: Union social justice minister Ramdas Athawale on Saturday said his party supports one-child policy as the population growth in the country needs to be controlled for ensuring development.

New Delhi: Senior BJP leader and Union Minister of Minority Affairs, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Friday appealed to the Taliban to “spare the Muslims of India”, his statement came in the wake of the Taliban’s recent statement adding that it has the right to raise its voice for Muslims of Kashmir.

Reigning world champion Pramod Bhagat on Saturday claimed a historic gold medal in men's singles SL3 class while Manoj Sarkar bagged the bronze as India stamped their prowess at the Tokyo Paralympics here.

New Delhi: A weekly magazine associated with the RSS, the parent body of BJP, has accused India’s largest IT Company Infosys of deliberately trying to destabilize the country’s economy. It has also accused the company of working at the behest of anti-national forces including China and ISI.

The ruling Congress in Rajasthan has won 231 panchayat samiti seats and the opposition BJP 185 out of a total of 1,564 in six districts where polling was held in three phases.

The Election Commission on Saturday announced holding bypolls on September 30 in one assembly constituency of Odisha and three of West Bengal, including the Bhabanipur seat where Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee intends to contest.

A fire broke out on the top floor of a seven-storey residential building in suburban Borivali on Saturday and a fireman was injured during the firefighting operation there, an official said.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has argued in a court that the five accused in the 2013 murder case of rationalist Dr Narendra Dabholkar be tried under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) for striking "terror among a section of people".