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Row over cancellation of circular extending SBC quota to Muslims

Mumbai, Feb. 19 -- A row has erupted after the Mahayuti government on Tuesday issued an order cancelling a 2014 circular which granted Muslims 5% reservation benefits under the Special Backward Class ... Read More


HC allows 16-year-old to end 31-week pregnancy

Mumbai, Feb. 19 -- The Bombay High Court on Tuesday permitted a 16-year-old girl to medically terminate her 31-week pregnancy, observing that she was unwilling to carry it to term. A division bench of... Read More


9 trade deals to benefit farmers, fisherfolk: Goyal

MUMBAI, Feb. 19 -- Union minister of commerce and industry Piyush Goyal on Tuesday declared that India would become the third-largest economy in the world by 2027-28, and would add around $26 trillion... Read More


india's Top rifle shooters for Lakshya Cup this weekend

Mumbai, Feb. 19 -- Some of India's top-ranked air rifle shooters will compete at the 16th RR Lakshya Cup, to be held at Lakshya Shooting Club in Panvel, Navi Mumbai, on February 21 and 22. Confirmed p... Read More


3 BEST bus accidents reported in 24 hours; two collisions, one blaze

MUMBAI, Feb. 19 -- Within a span of less than 24 hours, three separate incidents involving Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) buses were reported, one on Tuesday night and two others on... Read More


$25 mn to aid clean energy shift

Mumbai, Feb. 19 -- The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet on Wednesday launched the India Grids of the Future Accelerator (IGFA) platform through which it will deploy up to $25 million in th... Read More


City's tulip gardens go local: 50,000 indigenous bulbs bloom this spring

New Delhi, Feb. 19 -- This year, the Tulip bloom in New Delhi incorporates 50,000 locally grown Tulips as part of the indigenisation of the Tulip cycle and reducing the import bill, officials said. Th... Read More


I want those small, small partnerships to click, says Surya

Ahmedabad, Feb. 19 -- Ahead of the Super Eights, India pretty much got the perfect warm-up in their last league game of the ICC T20 World Cup at Ahmedabad on Wednesday. India chose to bat first, the b... Read More


HC: Ejaculation without penetration is not rape

Raipur, Feb. 19 -- The Chhattisgarh high court has held that ejaculation without penetration does not attract the offence of rape but constitutes attempt to rape, as it converted a man's conviction fr... Read More


BJP MLA Bishnu Prasad Sharma joins TMC ahead of West Bengal Assembly polls

India, Feb. 19 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator from Darjeeling district's Kurseong constituency Bishnu Prasad Sharma on Thursday joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC), saying only the ruling ... Read More