Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma has lashed out at animal rights supporters who opposed the Supreme Court’s order directing the Delhi administration to move stray dogs to shelters in view of rising bite cases and rabies deaths.

 Two senior doctors have written to the National Medical Commission (NMC) urging the inclusion of “Medical Law and Ethics” as a separate subject in both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. They argued that the fast-changing healthcare environment and the rising number of medico-legal cases in India demand a structured approach to teaching law and ethics in medical training.

An Air India flight bound for Delhi from Cochin International Airport (CIAL) was forced to abort take-off late Sunday night due to a technical issue.

The President of India, Droupadi Murmu, will visit Mysuru on September 1 to  attend the diamond jubilee of the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH) at Manasagangotri.

The Supreme Court on Monday raised questions over the appointment of Professor Naima Khatoon as the first woman Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, noting that her husband, Professor Mohd. Gulrez, who was then officiating VC, attended the Executive Council meeting that shortlisted her name.

With the opposition not participating in a special discussion in Parliament on India's first astronaut aboard the International Space Station, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor lauded Subhanshu Shukla's feat on Monday and said all Indians are proud of his recent mission that will help serve as a powerful symbol of India's ambitions in human spaceflight.

Several opposition MPs of INDIA bloc parties held a protest in the Parliament House complex on Monday against the Election Commission's voter roll revision in Bihar.

A protection wall constructed by the MMRDA collapsed amid heavy rains, damaging seven shanties in the eastern suburbs here, a civic official said on Monday.