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Nov 8: The image of an elephant and her calf fleeing a mob of jeering men that sent them on fire has been awarded a Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Award. The image, titled Hell is Here, was captured by photographer Biplab Hazra in eastern India. Hazra was awarded Wildlife Photographer of the Year by Sanctuary Asia, India's leading wildlife and conservation magazine. Hazra's caption on the image

New Delhi, Nov 8: The Union government on Wednesday urged Delhi and the surrounding northern states to immediately tackle dangerous levels of pollution in the national capital that forced schools to close and sparked criticism of authorities. Thick smog swathed Delhi, where pollution readings in some places peaked at 500, the most severe level on the government’s air quality index measuring the

New Delhi, Nov 8: Congress leader P Chidambaram launched a scathing attack on the Centre and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on the anniversary of the note ban decision today, asking whether it was "ethical" to heap misery on millions of people. No one could deny that lives and jobs were lost due to the note ban, the former Union finance minister said on "demonetisation Black Day". A day after

New Delhi, Nov 8: The Enforcement Directorate today approached a Delhi court seeking to declare beleaguered businessman Vijay Mallya a proclaimed offender in a case of allegedly evading summons in a FERA violation matter. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Deepak Shehrawat is likely to take up the matter today itself. Special Public Prosecutor N K Matta, appearing for the ED, told the court that the

New Delhi, Nov 8: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday tweeted in support of demonetisation and asked the people to take a survey to tell him what they felt about the note ban. A year ago, the central government scrapped old notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000. What eventually came to be seen as the biggest decision taken by the Narendra Modi government, became the centre point of discussions in

New Delhi, Nov 8: Days after ace shuttler P V Sindhu complained about rude behaviour by IndiGo employees, the airline has more bad news in store as a video of its staff manhandling a passenger at the Delhi airport tarmac has gone viral. The incident took place on October 15 when Rajeev Katiyal landed in Delhi airport from Chennai and was waiting for the ferry bus taking passengers to the terminal

Mumbai, Nov 8: Five years after a fatal Delhi bus rape, more Indian women are reporting attacks but are often humiliated by police and medics or intimidated to withdraw cases, activists said on Wednesday. A study by Human Rights Watch (HRW) found the outlawed "two-finger test" - which involves a doctor inserting fingers into a rape victim's vagina to determine if she is sexually active - being

New Delhi, Nov 7: Former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday trained guns at each other over the demonetisation. After Manmohan Singh launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government in Ahmedabad, Gujarat; Jaitley criticised the Congress and Manmohan Singh in New Delhi. On November 8, 2016

New Delhi, Nov 7: The BJP on Monday left its leaders Jayant Sinha and Ravindra Kishore Sinha to defend themselves on news reports that mentioned the duo in the latest leaked Paradise Papers. The papers showed that the rich and the famous used two global companies to move their money abroad. A news report stated that Minister of State Jayant Sinha worked as managing director (India) of Omidyar

New Delhi, Nov 7: Former finance minister P Chidambaram on Monday suggested that the media ask the government for the release of his reply to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, who had reportedly asked him to look into the allegations of harassment of private firm First Global, the financiers of Tehelka. Tehelka magazine had "exposed" alleged corruption in defence deals during the Atal Bihari Vajpayee