India on Friday sought an unimpeded consular access to Kulbhushan Jadhav, death row prisoner in Pakistan. This comes a day after the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) declared that it was evaluating Pakistan’s proposal to grant diplomatic access to him. Pakistan was asked yesterday...

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has said that the lower house will adopt paperless mode from the next session, a move which, he claimed, will save crores of rupees to the exchequer. House members will be asked about their preference between hardcopy and e-copy, accordingly, the use of papers...

Indian journalist Ravish Kumar has been awarded the 2019 Ramon Magsaysay Award for “harnessing journalism to give voice to the voiceless”. He is among five individuals who were declared winners of the award. Kumar, 44, who is NDTV India’s senior executive editor is one of India’s...

President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday, August 1 gave his assent to the Triple Talaq bill, which makes giving instant oral triple talaq a criminal offense with provisions of jail term of up to three years. The Act will replace an ordinance promulgated on February 21 this year to the same...

Talented India opener Prithvi Shaw was banned from all forms of cricket for a period of eight months after failing a dope test, the BCCI said. A BCCI release said Shaw had "inadvertently ingested a prohibited substance, which can be commonly found in cough syrups". Shaw's suspension...