The Anglo-Saxon brotherhood and its global endgameAfter World War II, the Anglo-Saxon brotherhood set the rules for the world order to preserve its neo-colonial hegemony. But the rise of As...
05 Apr, 2024, 08.17 PM IST
Vladimir Putin's critics: dead, jailed, exiledProminent critics of Putin, including Navalny, Nemtsov, Politkovskaya, Kara-Murza, Yashin, Chanysheva, Fadeyeva, Khodorkovsky, and Kassyano...
17 Feb, 2024, 05.09 PM IST
Navy embraces kurta-pyjama as part of 'Indianisation' driveThe Indian Navy has officially allowed officers and sailors to wear kurta-pyjamas in officers' messes and sailors' institutes, aligning wit...
14 Feb, 2024, 11.36 AM IST
Supreme Court to deliver judgment on same-sex marriages shortlyIndia's Supreme Court will announce its verdict on legal recognition of same-sex marriages on Tuesday. If granted, it will be a significant...
17 Oct, 2023, 10.50 AM IST
Same-sex marriage case: Supreme Court refers matter to 5-judge bench, hearing from April 18In a historic verdict in 2018, the Supreme Court had decrimalised homosexuality by scrapping a colonial-era ban on gay sex. The current cas...
13 Mar, 2023, 05.39 PM IST
India's Matrimony.com launches app catering to LGBTQIA+ communityThe company is looking at an addressable market of about 11 million to 13 million for the app, Rainbowluv, it said in a statement, although...
06 Sep, 2022, 05.58 PM IST
UK imposes export bar on 1-million pound colonial era Mughal dagger, scabbard"This beautiful example of a Mughal dagger and scabbard has a lot to teach us about both the British in India and the nature of diplomatic ...
21 Jul, 2021, 06.55 AM IST
Pakistan says four soldiers killed in ambush by Afghan militantsThe soldiers were working on fencing along the border in the Zhob district, an area of Pakistan's Balochistan province, the military said i...
06 May, 2021, 03.03 PM IST
Sec 377 decriminalised: Aamir Khan hails 'historic day', Preity Zinta calls for freedom to loveVoices across India's cultural spectrum have welcomed the apex court's decision.
06 Sep, 2018, 03.45 PM IST
Amnesty International criticises India's sedition lawIn its annual human rights report, the UK-based NGO said, "Human rights activists and journalists (in India) faced intimidation and attacks...
22 Feb, 2017, 11.13 AM IST
International rights group demands 'Comrade' S Kovan's releaseAn international rights group demanded the repealing of a colonial-era law that was enforced to arrest a folk singer on writing songs criti...
03 Nov, 2015, 03.44 PM IST
HC seeks Mufti government's view on cow slaughter; NC to bring bill to scrap beef ban law in J&KThe J&K high court has asked the state government to give its opinion on a petition seeking to scrap the legal provisions criminalising sla...
17 Sep, 2015, 05.35 AM IST
BMC cuts meat ban in Mumbai from four to two days; Chhattisgarh joins banwagonThe move is a huge climb down for the right-wing BJP whose corporators were pushing for the ban, and many even wanted the ban to be extende...
12 Sep, 2015, 05.54 AM IST
CPI(M) criticizes J&K HC beef ban directiveCPI(M) today the Jammu and Kashmir High Court's directive banning beef in the state, saying the order was devoid of any regard for sensitiv...
11 Sep, 2015, 04.54 PM IST
A bitter pill to swallow for some, others welcome gutka banThe paan shops of the city can accommodate conversations of all kinds between quick smoke breaks and a leisurely coating of the betel leaf.
30 Mar, 2015, 11.02 AM IST
Calling judges lord, lordship, your honour not mandatory: SCJudges should be addressed in courts in a respectful and dignified manner and it is not compulsory to call them "my lord", "your lordship" ...
06 Jan, 2014, 07.36 PM IST
My Lord/Your Lordships sign of slavery, should be banned: Supreme Court toldA PIL was filed today by a 75-year-old lawyer seeking the apex court's direction to strictly prohibit the use of My Lord or Your Lordships ...
11 Nov, 2013, 06.31 PM IST