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Thoubal, Aug 24: A recreational park, situated in the small hamlet of Khangabok village of Thoubal District in Manipur is promoting the message of communal harmony in the state. The park, which is set up by educationalist Kh. Menjor Mangang, is a multi-dimensional research centre (MMRC) tourist cum recreation park that provides comfort to the people who look to relax and desire for an absolutely

Chhatarpur (MP), Aug 24: A Hindu man and his family here have embraced Islam after allegedly facing social boycott for over 28 years since he married a Muslim woman. Vinod Prakash Khare (51), a resident of Rajnagar town in the district in Bundelkhand region, said he had married a Muslim woman nearly 28 years back. Post the marriage, his wife was assigned a Hindu name. However, their alliance was

Chhatarpur (MP), Aug 24: A Hindu man and his family here have embraced Islam after allegedly facing social boycott for over 28 years since he married a Muslim woman. Vinod Prakash Khare (51), a resident of Rajnagar town in the district in Bundelkhand region, said he had married a Muslim woman nearly 28 years back. Post the marriage, his wife was assigned a Hindu name. However, their alliance was

New Delhi, Aug 24: In a landmark judgement that will impact the lives of all 134 crore Indians and may give a massive jolt to government's Aadhaar push, a nine-judge Supreme Court bench today said Right to Privacy is a Fundamental right. Delivering a unanimous verdict, Supreme Court overruled eight-judge bench judgment in MP Sharma case and six-judge bench judgment in Kharak Singh case -- both of

New Delhi, Aug 23: The Union Cabinet has increased the creamy layer ceiling for the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category to ₹8 lakh per annum from the existing ₹6 lakh for Central government jobs, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said in New Delh on Wednesday. Briefing reporters on the decisions taken by the Union Cabinet, he said those in the OBC category earning up to ₹8 lakh per annum would

Bengaluru, Aug 23: The Karnataka government today said it will come out with an "Electric vehicle and energy storage policy" soon with an intention to make the state the electric vehicle capital of the country. "We will soon be coming out with an electric vehicle and energy storage policy. Today in many countries electric vehicles have come, it is going to be the future, but because of the battery

New Delhi, Aug 23: Railways minister Suresh Prabhu indicated on Wednesday that he's offered to resign after taking "moral responsibility" for two recent train accidents, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked "me to wait". Prabhu said he's "extremely pained" by the two train derailments in Uttar Pradesh, one on Tuesday and the other last week. In Tuesday's Kafiyat Express derailment, 70-plus

Los Angeles, Aug 23: A jury in United States has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay a record $417 million to a hospitalised woman who claimed in a lawsuit that the talc in the company’s iconic baby powder causes ovarian cancer when applied regularly for feminine hygiene. The verdict in the lawsuit brought by the California woman, Eva Echeverria, marks the largest sum awarded in a series of talcum

New Delhi, Aug 23: Representatives of the All India Muslim Women Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) and the All India Shia Personal Law Board have hailed the Supreme Court judgement on instant triple talaq as a victory for Islam and Muslim Personal Law in the country. In a statement issued here the AIMPLB said that the verdict was a also victory for the Board as the judgment "accorded protection to the

Bengaluru, Aug 23: The imminent entry of seven ticket-monger rebel JD(S) MLAs into the Congress has created a sense of insecurity among several Congress leaders in Karnataka. Senior leaders in the ruling party have commenced lobbying for ticket for their loyalists and kin for the 2018 Assembly elections. The JD(S) rebel legislators will officially join the Congress soon and they have been