Author: PTI

A section of students of University of Hyderabad Monday staged protests against the removal of a temporary structure erected to commemorate the death anniversary of Rohit Vemula, a research scholar who committed suicide on 17 January 2016 on the HCU campus. “

Amid a furore, the ruling AIADMK Monday accepted a challenge thrown by arch rival DMK in the Tamilnadu Assembly over criticism of the Central government.

In a daring daylight highway heist, a 10-member gang drove away a car with nearly Rs 1 crore worth ornaments of a Kerala-based jewellery after waylaying the vehicle near here, police said.

The ruling AIADMK was allegedly adopting various tactics to put pressure on her to join the party to strengthen it, Deepa, niece of former chief minister J Jayalalithaa, informed the Madras High Court Monday.

The Karnataka-Goa income tax director-general B R Balakrishnan Monday said the role played by the I-T department in the run-up to the Karnataka assembly elections was significant.

The Telangana Forest Department has nabbed two people for allegedly trying to sell two snakes through social media platforms, officials said Monday.

In a major move ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, the Union Cabinet Monday cleared a 10 per cent quota in government jobs and education for “economically weaker” sections, meeting a key demand of upper castes, a staunch BJP support base which has shown signs of a drift from the party.

Hours after he was sentenced to three years rigorous imprisonment by a special court here in a two-decades old riot case, Tamilnadu minister P Balakrishna Reddy Monday resigned from the K Palaniswami cabinet.

he Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to Reliance Communication Ltd (RCom) Chairman Anil Dhirubhai Ambani and others on a contempt petition filed by Ericsson India over non-payment of its dues. A bench headed by Justice R F Nariman sought a response from Ambani and others in four weeks.