"After baby Saraswati @ Sherin Mathews' case, have requested minister for women and child development for a thorough investigation into the adoption process," External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted on Friday.
When a university allows a small group of students to prevent classes being held; when the professor selected to hold those classes gives up and goes back to his hometown; what conclusion can be drawn, asks Jyoti Punwani.
Both India and Pakistan have announced that stretches would be developed in their respective areas.
Shyamji Krishna Verma had wanted his ashes brought to India after Independence.
Besides, less than 200 applications have been received by the authorities challenging the inclusion of the names of suspected illegal immigrants in the NRC, a list of Assam's residents, two months after a window was opened for claims and objections.
President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday awarded Shaurya Chakras to the officers who took part in the daring surgical strike across the Line of Control last year.
Modi flagged off the first batch of pilgrims led by Akal Takhat Jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib through the corridor, which was thrown open days ahead of the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev on November 12.
On compilation of six crucial documents, it was found that around two lakh of them from one crore were forged.
K Sasikiran registered his third consecutive win to join R R Laxman at the top after the sixth round.
Ramesh tied with Alexander Fominyh and Marat Dzhumaev but was declared winner on the basis of better progressive score.
IT-savvy Andhra Pradesh has topped the list of states with maximum number of hot e-governance projects, followed by Madhya Pradesh, as per the latest DataQuest magazine ranking.
The govt asserted the Centre has no role in the preparation of the draft list.
The CBI has booked officers and employees of the shelter home.
The 19-day 'Jhanda Ooncha Rahe Hamara' campaigan will end on Martyrs Day on January 30, Indore collector Mohammad Suleiman, the brain behind the campaign alongwith Seva Sourabh, a non-government organisation, said.
The Congress president, however, expressed 'disappointment' at the Gujarat poll results.
The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said he was betrayed by the BJP-RSS leadership.
The separatist had applied for a passport to allow him to visit his ailing daughter in Saudi Arabia.
Tata Motors' successful B segment car Indica is to hit the British roads very shortly under an export agreement with MG Rovers, United Kingdom.
With local militancy gaining ground in the Valley, S P Vaid, a highly-decorated police officer who helped tackle the recent unrest in the region, was on Wednesday appointed the new Director General of Police of Jammu and Kashmir.
It was a picture of unity at Mahboobnagar where Bharatiya Janata Party prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and Telugu Desam Party Chandrababu Naidu shared the stage.
'I am more concerned about my future, my family's future. The fate of the Ram temple is neither going to affect my career, nor would I let it be affected'
The UP CM didn't deign to attend the actor's nomination.
Beware of fake cow vigilantes, says PM Modi
Siva Sankar looks at S P Balasubrahmanyam's fantastic repertoire.
24, Akbar Road has been the Congress party headquarters since 1978.
The Army, which has about 1,200 Labradors and German Shepherds, has selected 36 canines to march down the Rajpath with their handlers.
The new age e-passports are expected to be rolled out in the country by 2016, a top official said on Monday.
'A few people have begun to dictate what the country should wear, think, see, go about its lives. That is the real Indian bak****.'
The Congress chief said if his party is elected to power, its government would spend 6 per cent of the GDP on education.
The BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the country needed a servantand not a ruler. Calling him a sevak, Modi said that if voted to power he would serve the country.
In an apparent backlash to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's comments that cow vigilantes were trying to create tension in the society and that they should be exposed and punished, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad has said that the prime minister will have to pay a price in the 2019 national election.
'China would rather tie us down; and bleed us as much as it can so that we aren't able to lift our heads to face them.'
In fresh escalation of political violence in poll-bound Kerala, a 28-year-old Youth Congress worker was hacked to death allegedly by Democratic Youth Federation of India workers at Evoor in Alapuzha on Tuesday even as the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Communist Party of India - Marxist workers clashed in Thiruvananthapuram district leaving at least 30 injured.
The 10-day extravaganza is on in Mumbai as it hosts its most favourite deity. Rediff.com takes a look at the city's rich and famous Ganpati mandals.
Pravin Gaikwad, the state coordinator of Maratha Kranti Morcha, has two rare qualities: he has an unparalleled connect with people from his community and, at the same time, underpins his ideology on a strong analytical base.
'When Modi was CM, Gujarat won 128 seats.' 'Now he is PM. Modiji is revered by people in Gujarat.' 'So as PM he will get 150 seats,'
'What the Congress needs now is an ideological and social contrast to the BJP.' 'The Congress stable of princelings cannot do it,' argues Mohan Guruswamy.
Once owned by underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, an eatery on the narrow Pakmodia Street in South Mumbai, a green sedan and tenancy rights to a property in suburban Matunga will on Wednesday go under the hammer in Mumbai.
The mood was full of gaiety and devotion, with chants of 'Ganpati Bappa Morya' reverberating across Maharashtra.
The government and MMRDA are keen to develop the 22-km link, which will connect Sewri on the island city to Nhava Seva in Navi Mumbai, on an engineering, procurement and construction basis and not on the build-operate transfer model, considering past experience.
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