India

The Central Bureau of Film Certification and its chief Pahlaj Nihalani has found itself in the eye of the storm after refusing to certify Lipstick Under My Burqa. However, this not the CBFC has become embroiled in controversy since Nihalani took over.

Union External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday condemned the killing of an Indian immigrant engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla in a crowded Austin's Bar and Grill in Olathe of Kansas in the United States on Wednesday night.

With no access to clean drinking water, students of a primary school in Jharkhand's Dumka district have been drinking water from a drain for the last 14 years.

Vijay Mallya, the one-time billionaire who co-owns the Force India Formula One team, said on Wednesday Indian authorities had no grounds to extradite him from Britain and he would not be leaving.

The Telangana Joint Action Committee on Wednesday started an agitation against the state government over unemployment and agrarian distress. Here are some facts behind the protests

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Tuesday said it has to be seen whether terror mastermind Hafiz Saeed's house arrest was the result of "real wise thinking" on the part of Pakistan or simply because things had started "burning under their feet".

The Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned the source of money in the bank accounts of social activist Teesta Setalvad and others which were frozen by Ahmedabad police in 2015 after allegations of misappropriation.

Special Investigation Team of the Gurugram police has arrested four persons for duping over 5,000 people for operating the fraudulent scheme in Badshahpur area of the district.

The train, which was coming from Kanpur, collided with the goods train after the driver apparently overshot the signal, railway sources said.

So far, 61.5 lakh people have been barred from purchasing plane tickets and 22 lakh cannot travel by high-speed trains. Around 71,000 defaulters cannot serve as corporate representatives or executives.

Former Chief Justice of India TS Thakur once agreed to fast-track the hearing of a case, after he overheard the lawyer in question alluding to one of Ghalib's couplets during the court proceedings.

India can look forward to the moon to fulfil its energy requirements, to go by the words of ISRO scientist.

On January 27, the SC had ordered status quo on the probe by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) against Uber over predatory pricing allegations by Meru Cabs and had sought response from CCI in the matter.

India and China will hold their first Strategic Dialogue on February 22 in Beijing.

SC had asked all the parties to frame their respective set of questions and accordingly the Central government submitted its list in the court.

In a letter to Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, the mastermind of 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack, in which 166 people died, said: "A memorandum issued on January 30, 2017 placing 38 individuals should be withdrawn forthwith."