India flags mental health, lifestyle diseases as new BRICS priorities | India News

NEW DELHI: India has proposed a stronger focus on mental health and healthy lifestyles under its BRICS chairship on Wednesday, as it hosted the first Health Working Group meeting for…

ICMR rings the belly alarm: India’s waistline on the run | India News

NEW DELHI: In a bid to tackle growing obesity in India, the ICMR has launched a nationwide exercise to find out what actually works to reduce weight and related health…

Expanding permanent category with veto critical to real reform of UNSC: India | India News

Photo credit: PTI UNITED NATIONS: India has asserted that any reform of the United Nations Security Council not accompanied by expansion in the permanent category with veto would perpetuate existing…

Can courts ban public appearance of naked sadhus of Digambar sect?, asks TDB | India News

NEW DELHI: The Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) on Wednesday asked a nine-judge bench of SC hearing the Sabarimala reference if despite the Constitution’s making every religious denomination subject to ‘public…

Delimitation bill in Parliament: What’s different this time and why it’s kicking up a row | India News

Govt will move a Constitutional (Amendment) Bill and Delimitation Bill in Parliament Thursday. The delimitation exercise is being closely watched as govt is keen to reserve 33% seats for women…

33 years after ignominious exit, SC orders honourable farewell for former IAF pilot | India News

NEW DELHI: Noting that it is the honour which is the most important thing for a defence personnel, Supreme Court on Wednesday directed that a septuagenarian former Indian Air Force…

Former Reliance ADAG execs Jhunjhunwala, Bapna arrested by ED | India News

Enforcement Directorate late Wednesday arrested Amitabh Jhunjhunwala in Mumbai in an ongoing money laundering investigation against entities of the Anil Ambani group, including Reliance Home Finance and Reliance Commercial Finance.…

A year on & 3 months after FIR, UP cleric held in fake nikah, halala gang-rape case | India News

NEW DELHI: A cleric has been arrested in the Amroha triple talaq and halala case nearly three months after the matter first came into focus, with the survivor alleging that…

Women’S Empowerment: ‘Respect for women is respect for nation’: PM Modi on women’s reservation bill ahead of special Parliament session | India News

File photo: PM Modi (Picture credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday wrote about women’s empowerment ahead of the special session of Parliament, sharing a video and…