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Bengaluru, Oct 19: Nandini M, a city-based software engineer, who prefers to be identified as an “animal rights activist” hit the headlines earlier this week after she was allegedly attacked by a mob under the limits of Talaghattapura police station. The woman had claimed that she was attacked and her car was damaged by a mob after she lodged a formal complaint with the jurisdictional police

Agartala, Oct 19: Tripura governorTathagata Roy has created yet another controversy by claiming azaan, or Muslim call to prayer, caused noise pollution. Roy was in news last week for his comments equating the Supreme Court ban on sale of firecrackers in Delhi to a communal conspiracy. "Every Diwali fights start over noise pollution from crackers. A few days in a year. But no fight about Azaan over

Agartala, Oct 19: Tripura governorTathagata Roy has created yet another controversy by claiming azaan, or Muslim call to prayer, caused noise pollution. Roy was in news last week for his comments equating the Supreme Court ban on sale of firecrackers in Delhi to a communal conspiracy. "Every Diwali fights start over noise pollution from crackers. A few days in a year. But no fight about Azaan over

Washington, Oct 19: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in his first major India-policy speech set the tone of bilateral relationship between India and the US for 100 years, a State Department official said, observing that the talk had many audiences, including China. "China's obviously an audience of the speech. But this is a speech, obviously, which we hope all countries in the Indo- Pacific region

Balasore, Oct 18: At least six people were killed and nine others seriously injured in an explosion at an illegal firecracker factory in Odisha’s Balasore district this evening, ahead of Diwali. It is apprehended that the number of casualties could go up as people are likely to be trapped under the debris of the house and rescue work is being hampered by rains triggered by a marked low pressure in

Mumbai, Oct 18: Campaigners are using social media and lobbying for special laws to annul child marriages in India, which has one of the world's highest rates of women married as children. Kriti Bharti, founder of Saarthi Trust, has helped nullify more than 30 child marriages in the western state of Rajasthan, and recently used Facebook posts as evidence in court in a state where these marriages

Chennai, Oct 18: Apologising for supporting demonetisation, actor Kamal Hassan said he will again salute Prime Minister Narendra Modi if he also accepts that the note ban was a mistake. In an article in the Tamil magazine Anandavikatan, the actor said accepting and correcting mistakes is a marker for great leaders which Mahatma Gandhi was able to do. Hassan said Modi should not be stubborn in

US President Donald Trump's third attempt to ban travel to the US from several countries has been blocked by a federal judge in Hawaii, just hours before the executive order was to go into full effect. Judge Derrick Watson has found that Trump's order "plainly discriminates based on nationality" and fails to show that people coming from the listed countries would be" detrimental" to US national

Udupi, Oct 18: Strongly opposing the separation of Lingayat community from Hindu religion, Paryaya Pejawar Mutt chief pontiff Vishwesha Teertha Swami said that worshipping Hindu god Shiva is part of Lingayat-Veerashaiva tradition. Speaking to media persons on the eve of Diwali, the seer said that in his opinion though there were two traditions (Lingayat and Veerashaiva) in the Lingayat community

Udupi, Oct 18: Strongly opposing the separation of Lingayat community from Hindu religion, Paryaya Pejawar Mutt chief pontiff Vishwesha Teertha Swami said that worshipping Hindu god Shiva is part of Lingayat-Veerashaiva tradition. Speaking to media persons on the eve of Diwali, the seer said that in his opinion though there were two traditions (Lingayat and Veerashaiva) in the Lingayat community