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Pune Metro sees 21.4% rise in ridership on first day of Ganeshotsav

India, Sept. 16 -- Pune Metro recorded a sharp rise in ridership on the first day of Ganeshotsav this year, with 2,62,671 passengers using the service on Monday. The figure was 46,297 higher than the ... Read More


Home ministry to brief JPC on FCRA bill in first meet on Friday

India, Sept. 16 -- The Union home ministry will brief a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on September 18 on the proposed amendments to the foreign contributions bill, after stiff objections from se... Read More


Centre, NMC tell Delhi HC queer partners can be recognised for medical decisions if authorised by patient

New Delhi, Sept. 16 -- The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the National Medical Commission (NMC) have told the Delhi High Court that there is no medical or ethical rationale for exclud... Read More


"Will continue to follow our own religious practices": SP leader ST Hasan slams UCC move; calls it threat to communal harmony

Moradabad, Sept. 16 -- Samajwadi Party (SP) leader ST Hasan on Wednesday criticised the proposed Uniform Civil Code (UCC), cautioning that contentious topics are being brought to the forefront as elec... Read More


Migrant labourer convicted of sodomising, killing 5-yr-old boy in Hoshiarpur

Hoshiarpur, Sept. 16 -- A special fast-track court operating under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act has convicted a migrant worker for the abduction, sexual assault and murd... Read More


Man carrying rRs.r40 lakh to bank robbed in Kalyan

India, Sept. 16 -- A trader carrying Rs.40 lakh in cash to a bank was allegedly ambushed by four masked men on two motorcycles in a busy Kalyan market on Tuesday afternoon. The suspects rammed their m... Read More


PM Modi and Awakening Atma Shakti

New Delhi, Sept. 16 -- In his famous treatise "Swadeshi Samaj", written in the heyday of the Swadeshi era, Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore spoke of awakening our "Atmashakti", or "Self-Power", for achievi... Read More


Docs protest in Muktsar over FIR against colleague

BATHINDA, Sept. 16 -- Private medical practitioners in Muktsar observed a strike on Tuesday against the registration of a case of alleged criminal negligence against a doctor. They demanded cancellat... Read More


4 years after man's hit-and-run death, tribunal lets mother's claim proceed

India, Sept. 16 -- A motor accident claims tribunal (MACT) on Tuesday allowed a compensation claim filed by the mother of a man crushed to death by a truck in Malad in 2022 to proceed, despite the ins... Read More


HC issues notice to state over order mandating court's intervention in post-24-week MTP cases

India, Sept. 16 -- The Bombay High Court has sought a response from the Maharashtra government on a public interest litigation (PIL) challenging a government resolution (GR) directing rape survivors, ... Read More