The state police have called the scheduled rallies, support for which has been mainly garnered over social media platforms, as "illegal" and "unauthorised", and said they have taken necessary precautions to allay apprehensions about potential law and order situations during the march.
'We will be in India to witness that moment if it ever comes true.'
A quick look at the winners of the 96th Annual Academy Awards.
Superstar Rajinikanth needs a box-office hit after two successive flops in Kochchadaiyaan and Lingaa, both 2014. Yet, Kabali is being projected as if the fans need the film, and the Tamil film industry needs it even more, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
The proposed hike is in accordance with the accepted formula based on the recommendations of the 6th Pay Commission
By proposing the addition of six permanent members this year, it may appear that it was a major concession, but in actual fact, it will make no difference to the privilege of the permanent five as the new six will have no veto, ever! points out Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
Rijiju's meeting with Bandyopadhyay came against the backdrop of the Opposition alliance's decision to pull out its members from the panel of chairpersons that will assist Mahtab in conducting the proceedings of the Lok Sabha till the election of the Speaker on Wednesday.
Cristiano Ronaldo struck a late winner as Portugal came from a goal down to beat Scotland 2-1.
The increase is in accordance with the accepted formula, which is based on the recommendations of the 6th Central Pay Commission.
Prime Minister Narendra D Modi with Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, China's President Xi Jinping, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Donald Trump on Thursday became the first former United States president to be convicted of a felony as a grand jury in New York found him guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records.
'Hrishi-da often voiced his disenchantment with Bachchan's Angry Young Man persona -- the 'maara-maari', the growth of sidelocks; he even said directors were killing Amitabh the actor and turning him into a stuntman. Yet, as Jaya Bhaduri jovially pointed out, the seeds of that seething persona can be found in Anand and Namak Haraam.'
'He made people happy with his songs.' 'What matters is how many people you really make happy, how you connect and make them joyous and help them forget their problems.'
The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it clear that the Central Bureau of Investigation has not been prohibited from probing the disproportionate assets case against Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati and issued notices to the Centre, CBI and the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister on a plea to review its verdict that quashed the DA case.
The central staff will now get 65 per cent of the basic pay as DA as against 58 per cent since July 1, 2011.
The increase is in accordance with the accepted formula, which is based on the recommendations of the 6th Central Pay Commission, it said.
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The Central Bureau of Investigation has decided to wind up its probe in the disproportionate assets case against Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati after receiving legal opinion on the Supreme Court orders on the issue.
'Vasco da Gama himself indulged in some of the most heinous crimes. On October 1, 1502, he mercilessly ordered the killing of 700 innocent Malabar pilgrims. Half the pilgrims were women and children,' says historian J B P More.
French organisers turned Paris into an open-air Olympic playground where everyone was invited, with or without a ticket.
Union Cabinet, on Friday, may consider a three per cent hike in dearness allowance for central government employees following the rise in inflation.
The newly enacted Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, which replaces the British-era Indian Penal Code, has made sexual offences "gender neutral" for the victim and the perpetrator, according to official documents.
Thakur's tenure as chief minister is best remembered for implementation of the recommendations of the Mungeri Lal Commission, whereby quotas for backward classes were introduced in the state in 1978. This panel was the forerunner of the Mandal Commission. Both Mungeri Lal and B P Mandal were from Bihar, which has a long history of socialist struggles.
'Kamala likes south Indian food.' 'She likes a special rasam which her husband also likes, she likes coconut rice, she likes puri aloo...'
The Kya Kool Hai Hum Director was undergoing treatment for urinary infection at Kokilaben Hospital in Mumbai. On Wednesday, he suffered a cardiac arrest, his brother Sanjeev Sivan confirmed.
The court stays the ban on the controversial film.
The central government babus have been given a big hike in TA/DA (travel allowance/dearness allowance) as part of implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission, but it may be only illusory as ministries and departments will get no additional funds to foot their bills.
Central and state government employees would be entitled to five per cent additional dearness allowance of basic pay and 50 per cent DA from July 1, 2006 following proportionate increase in price index since January this year.
The paramilitary Rangers, which were called in to maintain law and order in the disputed region, came under attack while moving out of the region, the Dawn newspaper reported.
the Vatican has asked a senior cardinal to debunk the novel, which it believes was deliberately written to discredit the Roman Catholic Church through "absurd and vulgar lies".
'I sang... God knows how many songs I sang for him! Most definitely, 50-100 songs.'
Last month, the Security Council Committee enacted amendments to certain entries in its ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban, and arms embargo.
Italian academic Alessandro Vezzosi who studied hundreds of Leonardo's documents, drawings and notes says the eccentric inventor produced a material similar to plastic.
