Here's a recap of events that occurred in India in the past 24 hours.
When it comes to rewarding top- performing employees, many large corporates are giving out expensive gifts such as latest iPhones, Mercs, flats and jewellery
Security forces on Wednesday apprehended four suspected Naxalites from a village in West Midnapore and recovered a weapon from them.According to sources, the troops of Central Reserve Police Force nabbed the four from Jaamthor village of the district after a search operation.Two of them have been identified as Manoranjan Mahato and Sudarshan Mahto.All four have been handed over to the police and a country made pistol has been recovered from them.
Eighty women from India's first all-girls running club -- Runner Girls India -- will participate in the Mumbai Marathon this Sunday. Naina Lal, who co-founded the club in 2007 and runs it in Bengaluru, tells Abhishek Mande what it's all about.
Take the case of Sudarshan Reddy, irrigation minister in the Andhra Pradesh government. He hails from the Bodan constituency in Nizamabad district and was supposed to return to his home constituency on Saturday. However, he advised against it due to the protests outside his house.
The Supreme Court asked the Chhattisgarh government some searching questions on disbanding the Salwa Judum, the anti-Naxal vigilante group accused of human rights violation in Maoist-hit tribal districts of the state, on Wednesday.
A Bench of Justices B Sudarshan Reddy and S S Nijjar dismissed the appeal filed by Natwar Singh and his son Jagat Singh for supply of certain documents and directed the authorities to expedite the inquiry, initiated in 2006 but delayed due to dilatory tactis of the father-son duo.
The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the death sentence of the three accused in connection with the Akshardham temple attack case of September 24, 2002 in which 34 persons, including two National Security Guard commandos were killed.
Parliament was on Thursday paralysed for the second day with the Opposition storming the Well in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, demanding the ouster of Telecom Minister A Raja, while Congress members denounced the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh for K S Sudarshan's anti-Sonia Gandhi remarks.In the Lok Sabha, Bharatiya Janata Party members rushed to the Well, raising slogans against Raja. They were joined by All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and Shiv Sena members.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Centre to ensure that all schools and hostels of educational institutions occupied by the Army and paramilitary forces are vacated within two months. An order to this effect was passed by a bench comprising Justice B Sudarshan Reddy and Justice S S Nijjar during the hearing of the issue relating to the trafficking of 76 children from Manipur and Assam to Tamil Nadu.
Appearances can be deceptive. He is short, dark-complexioned, a dropout from a polytechnic college -- and also the mastermind behind the deadliest Naxal attack that killed 75 CRPF men on Tuesday.
There has been an upsurge in hiring of Non-Resident Indians and expats by companies in the country in the past two years, thanks to improved infrastructure and competitive compensation levels, experts say.
President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday night cut short his visit to Odhisa and returned to the capital after his wife Suvra was hospitalised following illness.
Naxalism has taken the nation by storm. The dossier put out by the Ministry of Home Affairs has several names of most wanted Naxalites in it, and interestingly 99 per cent of the leaders who figure in that list are from the Andhra Pradesh region, which gives an indication as how strong or dedicated the movement is in this part of southern India, investigates Vicky Nanjappa.
Renowned artist Sudarshan Patnaik immortalised 'King of Pop' Michael Jackson in sand on the scenic beaches of Puri town.
Three stockmarket experts give their best picks for the New Year.
Prima facie, the derailment was caused by a rail fracture.
The intention of the government is to cap prices of drugs that are essential and which the public widely uses.
The government said that "in exercise of extraordinary powers in public interest, conferred by paragraph 19 of the DPCO, 2013", the ceiling prices of 21 key formulations had been increased. These formulations include common medicines like BCG vaccines, penicillin, malaria and leprosy medicines (Dapsone), life-saving drugs like Furosemide (used to treat fluid build-up due to heart failure, liver scarring, or kidney disease), vitamin C, some common antibiotics, and anti-allergy medicines.
Nearly half of the India Inc's professionals in chief executive role hail from the country's elite institutes -- IIT and IIM, a study says.
"The underlining theme with which we have been working till now is that we trust the taxpayers and from purely an enforcement agency, we are shifting our focus to being a service-oriented department," says CBDT chairman Pramod Chandra Mody.
Why has Mumbai's cyber police taken no action against these WhatsApp groups who everyday, commit offences under the Indian Penal Code? The police cannot be unaware of their existence, observes Shruthi Marathe.
Extending 'wholehearted support to the government' and calling upon the country to rise as one man to defeat the terrorists' intentions, RSS chief K S Sudarshan paid homage to Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare, noted encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar, and Additional Commissioner Ashok Kamte Ashok Kamte -- who were killed in the terrorist attack.
With allegations being made against various Hindu outfits in the wake of the Malegaon blast, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat today said his organisation was a "disciplined force and not a militant outfit".
The RBI has been repeatedly cautioning everyone about the usage of cryptocurrencies, flagging a slew of concerns.
Now you can enjoy Egg Rice, Chicken Sandwiches and tasty Rice Rotis with Coconut Chutney at work.
In the midst of a debate over Mohammad Ali Jinnah's role in Partition, former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangha chief K S Sudarshan has said that the Pakistan founder had "many facets" and that at one stage, he was with Lokmanya Tilak and was committed to a unified India.
Modi, who was in Delhi to campaign for the Bharatiya Janata Party in the assembly election, went to the RSS office before kick-starting his road show and public meetings, sources said. Though RSS chief R Sudarshan was not part of the meeting, Modi held long discussions with other senior functionaries and discussed the arrest of the sadhvi and how to handle the issue.
'Even when I made 264, I was told I should have made 300. People's expectations are high. Even if you make 300, they expect 350,' said the India opener ahead of Thursday's World Cup semi-final against Australia in Sydney.
The Mumbai SEZ Ltd, promoted jointly by industrialist Mukesh Ambani and his confidant Anand Jain, runs the risk of being scrapped after the Supreme Court on Friday refused to stay the land acquisition process that otherwise has to conclude by June 8.
Advani met RSS chief K Sudarshan and VHP leaders Ashok Singhal and Parveen Togadia to discuss current political situation in the country. At least 15 top leaders of the RSS and the VHP were also present.
How did Sudarshan Shetty, curator of the Kochi Muziris Biennale, decide what gets to be part of the show and what doesn't?
Federal officials have said this is unlikely to happen.
NASA in its space missions has documented the existence of a bridge on two occasions. The latest one was through Shuttle Radar Topography Mission aboard space shuttle Endeavour launched in February 2000.
A jawan of the Border Security Force was killed and a farmer injured on Wednesday when Bangladesh Rifles troopers opened fire on them at Mirsultanpur village on the border in West Bengal's Malda district.BSF sources said a hail of bullets hit the 40-year-old border guard, Sudarshan K G, as the BDR resorted to unprovoked fire at 5.20 am, when he went to the border to relieve himself.The jawan of the 123 battalion died of his wounds on the way to Malda Sadar Hospital.
The meeting is being held purportedly to discuss ways and means of raising the issues of Hinduism and the Ram Temple at Ayodhya in the coming weeks.
Narendra Modi is expected to have a 45-member council of ministers who will take oath along with him on Monday evening. The council of ministers is expected to have 23 Cabinet ministers, 10 ministers of state with independent charge and 11 ministers of state, according to sources.
Political opposition in the US to outsourcing has had many IT service providers in India on tenterhooks for the last three years fearing a policy level decision against it.
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