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President has already rejected 30 mercy petitions

As President, Pranab Mukherjee recently rejected the mercy petitions of rapists and murderers of a four-year-old, as well as the rapists and murderers of a Pune techie. Mukherjee had thus rejected ...

Toilets on highways a fundamental right, says Himachal High Court

While almost 10 million toilets were constructed between 2006-07 and 2010-11 across the country under the Total Sanitation Campaign, most of them remain dormant, used mostly for storage. At the same t...

Fodder scam: Lalu appears before CBI court

This is not new to him, he has been there, done that. And he is not worried. Former Bihar CM Lalu Prasad Yadav, whose Rashtriya Janata Dal is majority partner in the Bihar government, flew to Ranchi o...

Presidential election: No consensus candidate yet

While the BJP’s three-member committee—comprising Union ministers Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley and M Venkaiah Naidu—to select a candidate for President met Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on June 16 to try...

IT Sector Still Unsafe for Women on Night Shift

A recent statement by a firm that its responsibility ends with the woman logging out reveals the dark underbelly of the industry ~By Lilly PaulAccording to the International Labour Organisation, In...

Trump allies blame media for baseball practice attack

~By Matt Gertz President Donald Trump’s most loyal conservative and “alt-right” media allies are blaming the mainstream press’s Trump coverage for Wednesday’s attack on a Republican congressional b...

CBI Hastens a Rejoinder to scathing NYT Editorial on CBI raids on NDTV

The following is a letter from the spokesman of the CBI, R K Gaur, a rejoinder to a New York Times editorial which castigated the CBI raids on NDTV owners Prannoy and Radhika Roy’s residence and on ND...

WHO moves India to category 2 on Zika risk list

US advise to pregnant women to not travel to India stays On May 24, under its new Zika virus classification, the WHO moved India to category 2, which constitutes an “Area either with evidence of vi...

FB Using Artificial Intelligence to Counter Terror

Facebook has announced that it want its site to be “a hostile place for terrorists.” Facebook and other social media organisations have been under huge attack of late from several quarters, saying tha...

Errant Kasauli hoteliers move SC

Two hotels in Kasauli, in the Solan district of Himachal Pradesh, had been ordered by the National Green Tribunal to demolish all illegal floors as well as pay fines for disobeying all norms and manip...

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