India

Jul 31: West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh said the National Register of Citizens (NRC) will be published, on the lines of the one in Assam, if the saffron party was voted to power in the state. Supporting the publication of the complete draft of the NRC in Assam, he said some politicians were "shedding crocodile tears" as they were wary that their "vote-bank" politics would come to an end

Guwahati/New Delhi, Jul 31: A massive Supreme Court-monitored exercise to identify genuine Indian nationals living in Assam on Monday excluded over 40 lakh people from the final draft list, triggering a political slugfest. The Opposition alleged that it was BJP’s “game plan” to divide the people for electoral gains. The issue rocked both houses of Parliament after which Home Minister Rajnath Singh

New Delhi, Jul 30: The Supreme Court on Monday while hearing the writ petition filed against the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) questioned the practice and said that a lady cannot be made available to her husband like a cattle. The petition filed in the top court has sought issuance of orders to impose a complete ban on the practice of Female Genital Mutilation throughout India and

New Delhi, Jul 30: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said that illegal agents have started using asylum seeking as a way for trafficking people from India to other countries. She said Punjab, Haryana and Gujarat report the highest number of such cases where agents trade people to other countries and they seek asylum on political grounds in those countries. "The illegal agents take Rs 20-25

Jammu/Pathankot, Jul 30: The eight-year-old girl from Kathua, who was gang-raped and killed, was overdosed with a cocktail of sedatives through her captivity, "rendering her incapacitated" to resist sexual assault and murder, states the supplementary charge sheet filed by Jammu and Kashmir's Crime Branch on Monday. The charge sheet filed in the Pathankot sessions court sums up the investigation of

Jammu and Kashmir, July 30: Reminiscing "golden times" under former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti on Monday asserted that she "suffered" by joining hands with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under the current Narendra Modi-led central government. Addressing party workers and supporters at the 19th Foundation Day celebration of the

Mumbai, Jul 30: The Bombay High Court has admitted the discharged application of Sadhvi Pragya Singh and Sameer Kulkarni, two of the accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case. The move comes a week after the court admitted the discharge application of main accused Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit. "Colonel Purohit's discharge plea has already been accepted by the Bombay High Court. Today, the plea

New Delhi, Jul 30: A Delhi court on Monday summoned RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, his wife Rabri Devi and son Tejashwi Yadav and others as accused in the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) scam. Special Judge Arvind Kumar directed them to appear before the court on August 31 in a case related to alleged irregularities in granting operational contract of two IRCTC hotels to a

Guwahati, Jul 30: The much-anticipated second and final draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) was published on Monday with 2.9 crore names out of the total 3.29 crore applicants in Assam, Registrar General of India Sailesh said here. The names of 40.07 lakh applicants did not find a place in the historic document, touted to be a proof of Assamese identity. The first draft of the NRC was

New Delhi, Jul 30: The Congress questioned the remark of Narendra Modi that he does not mind standing next to businessmen, asking whether the industrialists the prime minister was referring to were the ones accused in bank scams. PM Modi attacked opposition parties for dubbing industrialists as "chor" (thief) and "luterey" (looters), saying "We are not those who are scared of standing next to