India

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

New Delhi, Nov 19: Stepping up probe into the Panama Papers, the Income Tax Department has slapped criminal charges under the new anti-black money Act and launched fresh assessment of stashed offshore income against more than six Indian entities in the list, official sources said. They said the department has detected undisclosed assets and stashed funds located in foreign countries in case of

New Delhi, Nov 19: More than 200 central and state government websites publicly displayed details such as names and addresses of some Aadhaar beneficiaries, the Unique Identification Authority of India has said. The Aadhaar issuing body added, in response to an RTI query, that it took note of the breach and got the data removed from those websites. It did not specify when the breach took place. It

New Delhi, Nov 19: Decks are set to be cleared for Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's elevation as the next chief, with the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting on Monday to approve the schedule for the party president's election. Party sources have said that Rahul will be elected as the national president of the grand old party before the Gujarat Assembly elections, which starts on

Mumbai, Nov 18: A Patna-bound GoAir flight with 174 passengers on board on Saturday returned to New Delhi following a bird strike soon after it took off from the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport, the airline said. The Airbus A320 neo plane suffered the bird hit when it was on the climb, forcing the pilot to discontinue the journey and return to New Delhi for an inspection of the plane

Kochi, Nov 18: The NDA government should not be "lured into false belief" that the economy is out of the wood, former prime minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday, reacting to the Moody's upgradation of India's sovereign credit rating. The US-based agency upped India's rating to Baa2 from Baa3 and changed its rating outlook to "stable" from "positive", saying the reforms will help stabilise