State of the Nation

The Supreme Court Bar Association president described the top court’s decision to hold a hearing on Tuesday as 'astonishing'

The four suspects have been booked under various sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Sahebganj senior superintendent of police Jayant Kant said. A police team is trying to catch the men.

WhatsApps new privacy terms give it the right to share user data, including location, phone number, contacts list and usage pattern, with Facebook and its units such as Instagram and Messenger.

The first arrest under the new anti-cattle slaughter law in Karnataka was made by police officials in Sringeri in Chikkamagaluru district of Karnataka. The police arrested Abhidali, the driver of a Tata Eicher vehicle going from Davangere to Mangaluru via Sringeri. A first information report was...

Assamese women’s groups insist that trafficking is a far bigger problem

Indore police chief Vijay Khatri praises Hindu vigilantes for being 'active & alert', tells us ‘it didn’t really matter’ if comic Munawar Faruqui and five friends—in jail with bail refused—made no jokes about Hinduism. Police base case on rehearsal jokes vigilantes claim they overheard KUNAL...

In a state revenue department order on Tuesday, the government constituted five surveillance teams — each led by a government school teacher and accompanied by two civil defence volunteers — to check the spread of bird flu in Delhi.

In November this year, when the PM visited his home turf, 50 houses were razed to beautify the region. Now, barely ten meters away in the Khidkiya Ghat area over 500 people have been rendered homeless in the name of development.