India

Mumbai, Nov 8: Five years after a fatal Delhi bus rape, more Indian women are reporting attacks but are often humiliated by police and medics or intimidated to withdraw cases, activists said on Wednesday. A study by Human Rights Watch (HRW) found the outlawed "two-finger test" - which involves a doctor inserting fingers into a rape victim's vagina to determine if she is sexually active - being

New Delhi, Nov 7: Former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday trained guns at each other over the demonetisation. After Manmohan Singh launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government in Ahmedabad, Gujarat; Jaitley criticised the Congress and Manmohan Singh in New Delhi. On November 8, 2016

New Delhi, Nov 7: The BJP on Monday left its leaders Jayant Sinha and Ravindra Kishore Sinha to defend themselves on news reports that mentioned the duo in the latest leaked Paradise Papers. The papers showed that the rich and the famous used two global companies to move their money abroad. A news report stated that Minister of State Jayant Sinha worked as managing director (India) of Omidyar

New Delhi, Nov 7: Former finance minister P Chidambaram on Monday suggested that the media ask the government for the release of his reply to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, who had reportedly asked him to look into the allegations of harassment of private firm First Global, the financiers of Tehelka. Tehelka magazine had "exposed" alleged corruption in defence deals during the Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Lucknow, Nov 7: Children continue to die at the BRD Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur, the native city of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. As many as 55 children have died at the hospital in the past four days, according to official sources. Of these, 29 died in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) alone. Sources said the children died of encephalitis and other diseases

New Delhi, Nov 6: The Income Tax Department has picked 20,572 tax returns for "detailed scrutiny" suspecting discrepancies in incomes before and after demonetisation, official sources said today. Separately, they said, the department has identified one lakh "high risk" cases of alleged tax evasion for detailed investigation. According to the sources, 20,572 tax returns have been selected for

New Delhi, Nov 6: A transgender, who had undergone sex change three years ago, today moved the Supreme Court challenging Air India's decision to deny her a job as a cabin crew. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud issued notice and sought responses from Air India and Civil Aviation Ministry in four weeks. She claimed that to pursue her dreams, she had

Lucknow, Nov 6: Recent remarks by a few artistes against Hindutva extremism and terrorism seem to have sparked a political storm as now Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath has jumped into the discourse and branded individuals talking about intolerance and Hindu terrorism as anti-nationals. “Those who market their intellectual wisdom for making money talk about intolerance in the country

Chennai, Nov 6: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said editorial freedom must be used wisely in public interest and the media should make an "extra effort" to maintain credibility. "The freedom to write does not include the freedom to be factually incorrect," the Prime Minister said in Chennai, addressing a function to mark the 75th anniversary of Tamil newspaper Daily Thanthi at the Madras

Beijing, Nov 6: China on Monday objected to Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's first visit to Arunachal Pradesh, saying her tour of the "disputed area" is not conducive to the peace and tranquillity in the region. On Sunday, Sitharaman visited forward army posts in remote Anjaw district of Arunachal Pradesh bordering China to take stock of the defence preparedness. "As to Indian Defence