India

New Delhi, Nov 22: The Centre has urged all states to ensure that every child with disability must get free education till he or she turns 18. Referring to the provisions of the Rights of Persons with Disability (RPwD) Act, the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has also asked the heads of the state education departments to ensure that all schools within their jurisdiction have inclusive

Ballia, Nov 22: The district administration here has ordered a magisterial probe into the incident of a woman being forced to take off her burqa in public at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's rally, officials said today. A video showing the woman being made to take off her black burqa minutes before the chief minister makes an appearance at the rally yesterday has gone viral. "The

Ahmedabad, Nov 22: Patidar leader Hardik Patel on Wednesday declared his support for the Congress in the upcoming Gujarat elections, saying the party had accepted the demand for reservation for the Patel community. The Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) leader told reporters here that the Congress will include the extension of reservation benefit to the Patel community in its election manifesto

Among 1,000 beggars who have been shifted to the ashrams ahead of Ivanka Trump’s three-day visit to Hyderabad for a high-profile entrepreneurship conference police have found two highly educated and rich women who can interact with authorities in fluent British and American English! Several women beggars from a dargah or shrine for a Muslim religious figure at Langar Houz on the outskirts of

Gorakhpur, Nov 21: 'Padmavati' director Sanjay Leela Bhansali is no less guilty than those issuing threats to actors involved in the film, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said today, accusing the film-maker of being "habitual of playing with public sentiments". The chief minister asserted that if there is any action, "it will be against both the sides" as he attacked Bhansali, further

New Delhi, Nov 21: The government has set up a ministerial committee to consider a legislation to put an end to instantaneous triple talaq, which is said to be still practiced by a few Muslims despite the Supreme Court striking it down. Instantaneous triple talaq is considered as un-Islamic by Islamic scholars. Government functionaries, who did not wish to be named, said that the Centre was

Bengaluru, Nov 21: Haryana’s senior BJP leader Suraj Pal Amu’s announcement of a bounty of Rs 10 crore for beheading Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone and director Sanjay Leela Bhansali has embarrassed the Karnataka unit of saffron party. Deepika is the daughter of badminton icon Prakash Padukone, who lives in Bengaluru. The Congress government in Karnataka has decided to provide police security

Bengaluru, Nov 20: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today asked his Haryana counterpart Manohar Lal Khattar to take "stringent action" against those threatening actress Deepika Padukone who is being targeted by fringe groups for her lead role in "Padmavati". Coming out in support of the actress, the state government said security would be provided to the actress whenever she is in Bengaluru

Mumbai, Nov 20: Maharashtra’s BJP leader and Water Conservation Minister Ram Shinde has landed himself in a controversy after a video clip purportedly showing him urinating on the roadside surfaced on social media. The incident occurred on a stretch of the Solapur-Barshi road when the water conservation minister was travelling in his car. When contacted, Shinde said that he urinated in the open as

Ahmedabad, Nov 20: The Congress tonight released its first list of 77 candidates in which sitting MLA Indranil Rajyaguru of Rajkot East seat has veen fielded to fight against BJP Chief Minister Vijay Rupani from Rajkot West seat. However, after the list was released, PAAS members expressed anger and started protesting in many parts of the state, claiming they were not given proper representation