India

Mumbai, Apr 8: Following the Shani Shingnapur temple’s announcement that both men and women will be allowed to enter the inner sanctum of the temple, Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis welcomed the decision and said religion never discriminates on the basis of caste or gender. “The state government has taken the same stand from the very beginning and we filed an affidavit in the High

Mumbai, Apr 8: Defying the temple authorities over 100 male devotees brazenly stormed into sanctum sanctorum of Shani temple in Shingnapur on the occasion of Gudi Padwa on Friday, according to reports. This incident is likely to escalate the ongoing stand-off between the Shani temple authorities and Bhoomata Brigade activists who had forced entry into the inner sanctum of the temple. Women

New Delhi, Apr 8: Would it be shocking if the industrialist Vijay Mallya's name crops up in the Panama Papers leak? As per The Times of India report, Vijay Mallya, who has bee declared as willful defaulter by banks in India, has also been named in the papers released by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists( ICIJ) among people who may have stashed away wealth in offshore

Washington, Apr 8: The US government is believed to have received about 250,000 petitions for H-1B visas –- the most sought after American work visas -– with a majority of them being from either Indian companies or having huge footprint in India. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services yesterday said it has reached the Congressional mandated cap for H-1B visas in the general category and also

New Delhi, Apr 8: Information received from anonymous individuals in Pakistan, after photos of the slain Pathankot terrorists were put up on the National Investigation Agency (NIA) website, was crucial in identifying four Pakistan terrorists who stormed the airbase, a senior government official said. The NIA had published the photographs of the deceased terrorists on its website last month

Mumbai, Apr 7: The Bombay High Court today declined to stay the IPL opening match on April 9 here as sought by a public interest litigation challenging use of large quantity of water for maintaining pitches despite the grave water crisis in Maharashtra due to drought. The PIL, filed by Loksatta Movement, sought shifting of IPL matches out of Maharashtra and wanted a stay on the matches scheduled

New Delhi, Apr 7: Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal and five other AAP leaders, who were summoned as accused in a criminal defamaiton case filed against them by Union Minister Arun Jaitley, were today granted bail by a Delhi court. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sumit Dass granted the relief to Kejriwal and AAP leaders Ashutosh, Sanjay Singh, Kumar Vishwas, Raghav Chadha and Deepak Bajpai, on a

New Delhi, Apr 7: The cost of studying at the prestigious IIT or Indian Institute of Technology will be more than doubled. A decision has been taken to raise the IIT fee from Rs. 90,000 to Rs. 2 lakh a year, officials in the education ministry said on Thursday. Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students, those with disabilities and students from extremely poor families may not need to pay fees

News Delhi, Apr 7: A consortium of banks led by State Bank of India today rejected the proposal in the current form offered by liquor baron Vijay Mallya and his companies to pay Rs 4,000 crore by September towards settlement of his loan before the Supreme Court, which directed him to disclose his total assets by April 21. The consortium also asked the Supreme Court that directions be passed to

Jammu, Apr 7: Several organisations including JKNPP, JPPF and Sri Ram Sena today called for Jammu bandh today in protest against the alleged police action on outstation students at NIT in Srinagar. "We unanimously decided to observe complete Bandh in Jammu on April 7," Jammu Province People's Forum (JPPF) Working President M S Katoch told reporters here today. Katoch appealed to all Jammuites to