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Life sentence can be a ground for granting divorce: HC

The Karnataka High Court has ruled that life sentence can be a ground to grant divorce.

Rejecting a Miscellaneous First Appeal by a husband serving life in a murder case, a division bench, headed by

Modi depicted as Lord Krishna in BJP advertisement

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Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has been depicted as Lord Krishna in a BJP advertisement published in a local newspaper today.

The advertisement, which is sure to kick up a controversy, has bee

Didi’s new move, end of Marx, Engels in WB textbooks?

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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels - founders of Marxism - may be out of history syllabus in government schools in West Bengal following a recommendation by a state education panel.

Modi depicted as Lord Krishna in BJP ad, Cong fumes

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Kicking up a controversy, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has been depicted as Lord Krishna in a BJP advertisement published in a vernacular newspaper today.

The advertisement put up by BJP's Am

UP govt bans burgers, chips, colas from school premises

Children used to feasting on burgers, chips, colas and Maggi noodles will now be in distress.

The UP government has sent a letter to all schools - ICSE, CBSE as well as UP Board-- to ban sale of junk

Women wear hijab in support of hate victim

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One million women worldwide have posted their pictures on Facebook wearing the hijab to show their support for an Iraqi immigrant in the US who was brutally murdered.

Mother-of-five Shaima Alawadi wa

Colombian girl world's youngest mother?

A 10-year-old Colombian girl has sparked outrage after becoming one of the world's youngest mothers by giving birth to a healthy daughter, it has been reported.

The girl, a member of the northern ind

Team to probe students' alleged refusal of mid-day meal cooked by 'dalit cooks'

A three-member high-level team was set up to inquire into alleged refusal by about 500 students of a school in Hazaribagh district to take mid-day meals because the food was prepared by 'dalit cooks'.

Karunanidhi loved Tamil but funded English books, says minister

School education minister N. R. Sivapathi on Tuesday alleged that the previous DMK government had spent only Rs 55 lakh on Tamil books of the allotted Rs 89 crore. “A sum of Rs 87 crore was spent on b

From chemistry to tech, Vedas have it all

The Mahabharata and the Ramayana recount many examples that indicate our ancestors had knowledge of nuclear energy thousands of years ago, according to a paper presented in the ongoing national confer

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.