The 19th Commonwealth Games are less than a week away but, contrary to assurances by the organising committee, government authorities and various agencies, the athletes’ village is far from being “liv

Uttar Pradesh's Shrawasti district has the maximum number of girls marrying below 18 years of age in the country while Bahraich of the same state comes second.

The Supreme Court on Monday slammed the CBI for dragging its feet in the disproportionate assets case involving Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati and wondered whether the probe agency and the BSP

The Supreme Court has held that courts do not have unfettered powers to pass a divorce decree under the Hindu Marriage Act even if consent has been given by the husband and wife for dissolution as it is subject to the fulfilling of certain conditions.

The architect of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, Mr L.K. Advani, on Saturday visited the Somnath temple in Gujarat to offer prayers. Mr Advani had taken out his contentious rath yatra from Somnath in 1990, triggering the Ram Janmabhoomi movement. Saturday was the anniversary of the senior BJP leader’s 1990 yatra.

India’s defending CWG bantamweight gold-medallist boxer Akhil Kumar was in for a rude shock as his bed collapsed moments after he checked into his room at the `1,350-crore Games Village here on Saturday.

In a bizarre demand, the British delegation to the Commonwealth Games on Saturday is understood to have demanded that due to security concerns Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s vehicle should also be checked, along with other VIP vehicles, when they enter Games venues.

The Central government on Saturday announced an eight-point initiative to restore peace in the Kashmir Valley after the unrest that began in June this year. This, among others, will include an attempt to de-scale the presence of security forces, the constitution of a group of interlocutors to hold a “sustained dialogue” with all shades of Valley life and the release of about 245 persons detained for stone-pelting.

Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia has decided to head the three-judge bench that will on September 28 hear the petition for deferring the Allahabad high court judgment in the Ayodhya title suit and giving the parties a last chance for a negotiated settlement.