Adding a new dimension to the policing in the Bastar division, Chhattisgarh has recruited nine transgender people in ‘Bastar Fighters’ special unit, to be deployed in the insurgency-hit region.
Read MoreShould the ban continue, India cannot host the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup which is scheduled to commence on October 11 later this year. Luckily for India, FIFA has not yet announced an alternative host, providing the country with some hope.
Read MoreTerrorists lobbed grenades and escaped security forces’ cordon in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Wednesday. Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in the Kutpora area of Shopian Tuesday night following information about the presence of militants there, they said.
Read MoreTej Pratap Yadav, the elder brother of Bihar Deputy CM Tejashwi, got the environment, forest and climate change portfolio in the state’s cabinet expansion on Tuesday. Tej Pratap had handled the health portfolio during his curtailed ministerial stint in the first Mahagathbandhan government in 2015. That berth was kept by Tejashwi this time around.
Read MoreIn Talaq-e-Hasan, ‘talaq’ is pronounced once a month, over a period of three months and if cohabitation does not resume during this period, the divorce gets formalised after the third utterance in the third month.
Read MoreElon Musk, the world’s richest person, tweeted on Wednesday that he was joking when he said that he was going to buy English soccer club Manchester United.
Read MoreExternal affairs minister S Jaishankar who is in Thailand to attend the 9th India-Thailand Joint Commission Meeting defended India’s crude oil imports from Russia by terming it the “best deal” for the country. Addressing the Indian community in Bangkok, he discussed the surge in energy prices across the world due to the Russia-Ukraine war.
Read MoreHusband comparing his wife to other women and repeatedly taunting her that she does not meet his expectations amount to cruelty and is a ground for divorce, the Kerala High Court said in a judgment on August 4.
Read MoreReiterating that only good school education and healthcare facilities can make India the number one country in the world, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday offered Delhi government’s “expertise” in bringing revolutionary changes in the two sectors.
Read MoreAfghanistan, counter-terrorism, defence and food and energy security in the aftermath of the Ukraine conflict are among the regional and global issues Doval is likely to discuss in his meetings with Russian authorities, including his counterpart Nikolai Patrushev, during his two-day visit to the Russian capital.
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