In an event marking the start of the 16th Kerala Legislative Assembly, newly elected legislators swore their oaths on May 21. The oath-taki...

T.N. Cabinet Expansion Updates: Tamil Nadu's new government has expanded its cabinet. Twenty-three more MLAs joined the State Cabinet. This...

Kerala Governor Rajendra Arlekar has approved the portfolio allocation for the new UDF government, led by Chief Minister V. D. Satheesan. S...

Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary has secured crucial ministries. He will oversee Home, General Administration, and Cabinet Secretariat...

The Punjab government is considering new rules to resume traditional bullock cart races at the Kila Raipur sports event in Ludhiana. The 20...

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a Tamil Nadu law allowing the bull-taming sport 'Jallikattu' and said that the Prevention of Cruelty t...

A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Justice K M Joseph said though cruelty may be involved in the sport people do not take part in th...

The apex court is considering five questions referred to it by a two-judge bench of the top court in February 2018. Referring the issue to ...

The top court had earlier said that the petitions challenging the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Tamil Nadu Amendment) Act, 2017, needed...

A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice R F Nariman framed five questions to be adjudicated on by the Constitution bench.

The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Maharashtra Amendment) Bill would regularise the bullock race, a popular sport in rural Maharashtra w...

Kambala Committees and various Kannada outfits had recently held protests against the ban and demanded it be allowed.

The top court had not permitted the sport on the grounds that it involved extreme cruelty to animals and caused severe injuries and deaths.

Tamil Nadu was brought to a standstill by a shutdown on the fifth day of the protest by students, youths and other sections demanding immed...

Sorabjee also discouraged the ongoing protests demanding lifting of ban on bull taming sport, saying the emotions cannot override rule of l...

Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi said the state government has the power to enact a law to treat Jallikattu as a traditional sport, but cauti...

The animal rights body also claimed that certain native breeds of bulls became extinct because of "white revolution" and "cross-breeding pr...