The Bombay High Court on Friday pulled up the Pune administration over its order banning alcohol for the 10-day Ganesh festival, questioning why Pune alone had been singled out while other places, including Mumbai, were not covered by a similar restriction. After the court’s inte...
The Bombay High Court on Friday said it could not prevent Maratha reservation activist Manoj Jarange Patil from protesting, observing that the right to agitate is a fundamental right in a democracy and that the state should intervene through dialogue and by maintaining law and or...
Maharashtra may be following the Tukaram Mundhe-led state Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) ban on high sugar and high fat products in and around schools with a measure to also ensure healthier eating at government offices, meetings and events.
Kabir Rekhi was lighting a cigarette. Standing outside his office on Broad Street, just off Wall Street in New York, this India-born Ernst & Young executive had stepped out with his boss just before 9 a.m. on a perfectly everyday Tuesday morning.
A digital project born out of Kolkata’s Durga Puja is now set to enter a global conversation on religion, technology and artificial intelligence (AI). ThePujaApp, which has been documenting Kolkata’s Puja installations through virtual tours since 2013, has been invited to the int...
Fresh tensions have erupted in the Middle East, with Iran attacking 10 ships near the Strait of Hormuz after the US said it had bombed five Iranian crude vessels in the Gulf of Oman and near Kharg Island. The US attack came after Iranian forces had allegedly launched ballistic mi...
Displaced residents of a village in southern Lebanon watched from a nearby hill on Friday as Israeli drones dropped boxes carrying explosives on homes below, in what they said has become a daily scene since they fled weeks ago. Although fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed...
Former India cricketer Ajinkya Rahane has backed Sanju Samson to return to India’s top three for the upcoming T20I series against Afghanistan, while insisting that teenage sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi will get his opportunity in the international setup.
UK lawmakers on Friday voted down a bill that would have allowed terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose to end their lives. The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill was defeated by 286 votes to 270, bringing to a close a two-year debate in Parliament on assisted...
A short video of Russian Embassy Press Secretary Petr Sizov speaking in Hindi is making the rounds online after he expressed his hopes for the future of BRICS.
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Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has said India should push for BRICS to remain a forum that is “non-West, but not anti-West”, arguing that projecting the grouping as an anti-Western platform would not be in the country’s national interest.
Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Friday asked the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights to focus on the future and rehabilitation of children leaving child-care institutions, saying they should be linked to education, skills and jobs so they can become self-reliant. ...
He is a former bureaucrat who plays the guitar, sings at public functions and runs a cancer-care organisation. But Devasish Sharma is now making headlines for a very different reason. Eight days after taking voluntary retirement from the civil services while serving as Nagaon Dis...
A woman riding a scooter in Rishikesh was knocked off balance after a bull fleeing a roadside fight suddenly charged across the road and slammed into her, sending her scooter into a parked cab.
