India

New Delhi, Jan 6: After creating a furore with his India-Bharat remark on increasing rapes in the country, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat has once again kicked up a controversy by saying that women must restrict themselves to household work. In a speech in Indore, Bhagwat said that a husband and a wife are bound by a social contract where the wife has to take care of the household

New Delhi, Jan 6: Domestic consumers may have to wait longer for the cap on subsidised LPG cylinders to be raised from six to nine. The Petroleum Ministry has been pressing for a relaxation, but the Finance Ministry has expressed serious reservations. “Lack of revenue and a wide fiscal deficit may not make it possible this year to extend such subsidies,” a senior official in the Finance Ministry

New Delhi, Jan 5: Budget carrier SpiceJet will connect Mysore and Pondicherry with Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru from mid of this month. SpiceJet will also connect Mysore to Chennai via Bengaluru and Pondicherry to Bengaluru with direct flights, the airline said in a statement. The airline is also connecting Mysore with Mumbai and Delhi while Pondicherry will be connected to Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad

Hyderabad, Jan 5: The Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) sees a conspiracy by the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh to target its leader Akbaruddin Owaisi by slapping serious charges of waging war against the nation. Police in Hyderabad, Adilabad and Nizamabad districts, during the last two days, registered three cases against Owaisi for allegedly making hate speeches last month. The courts in

Bijapur, Jan 5: Amid the threat by B S Yeddyurappa to topple the BJP Government in Karnataka, JDS today said it was ready to support a Congress no-confidence motion against the Jagadish Shettar Ministry. "JDS is ready to support no-confidence motion if the Congress moves it against the BJP Government in the state," party supremo and former prime minister H D Deve Gowda told reporters here. JDS had

Ballia (UP), Jan 5: The brother of the 23-year-old Delhi gang rape victim today said delay in providing medical assistance to his sister led to complications which perhaps led to her death. "She told me that after the incident that she had asked passersby for help but to no avail and it was only after the highway patrol alerted the police that she was rushed to hospital but it had taken almost two

New Delhi, Jan 5: Tehran on Friday sought to allay New Delhi’s concerns over security of the proposed pipeline for bringing natural gas from Iran to India through Pakistan, stating that it was capable of protecting its energy supplies to the countries in the region. A skeptical New Delhi, however, refrained from committing itself afresh to the ambitious project, but stated that issues like

New Delhi, Jan 5: Women's groups have criticised RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's view on rape in "India" and "Bharat" for being regressive. But data shows that not only are Bhagwat's views regressive, they're also plain wrong. While the National Crime Records Bureau does not split registered cases of sexual assault by rural and urban areas, Mrinal Satish, an associate professor of law at Delhi's

Bangalore, Jan 4: Contrary to his earlier assertions of a decisive move Friday to pull down the BJP government in Karnataka, the party's former leader B.S. Yeddyurappa deferred the plan to Jan 15. "We will take a final decision Jan 15 as it is an auspicious day," Yeddyurappa told reporters after the first meeting of the working committee of his new party, the Karnataka Janata Party (KJP). The

Hyderabad, Jan 4: Vishwa Hindu Parishad international working President ParveenTogadia has been brought to notice for his communal speeches in his last December visit to Hyderabad. A complaint was filed against him by in the 7th metropolitan magistrate by Advocate Ghulam Rabbani against the press conference of Praveen Togadia last December. VHP president in his press conference on the issue of