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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said the Centre's ban on sale and purchase of cattle from animal markets for slaughter has nothing to do with state legislations on animal slaughtering.

While Mahesh Chand Sharma, the 'Peacock judge' who became a national sensation for saying that the national bird procreates asexually, claims that cows are dying in India, the livestock census says otherwise.

The National Green Tribunal on Wednesday took Karnataka government and its civic authorities to task over foam spilling over into the streets in Bengaluru near the Varthur lake, causing massive traffic jams.

Indian Police Service (IPS) officers may soon have to specialise in at least one policing domain like counter-insurgency, terror funding or cyber crime to get promotion to the senior ranks.

The Rajasthan High Court has suggested making cow the national animal of India and increasing punishment for cow slaughter to life imprisonment, as debate rages on curbs placed by the Centre on sale of cattle for slaughter.

A PhD scholar was brutally thrashed on Tuesday by some right-wing students after he organised a beef Fest on the campus of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras.

India's military preparedness is the best deterrent, which will guarantee peace in the region, and it must significantly ramp up defence production keeping in mind geo-political dynamics, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley said on Tuesday.

Girls outperformed boys in the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Class 12 examinations, the results of which were declared on Tuesday.

The result for Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examination or class 12 of Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) announced on May 30 at 1 pm at mahresult.nic.in.

The result of Higher Secondary School Leaving Certificate (HSSLC) Class 12 Assam Higher Secondary Education Council (AHSEC) was declared on May 30 at 10 am.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday moved the Delhi High Court seeking quashing of summons issued by a trial court in a complaint case alleging that he gave false information to the poll panel in his affidavit in the run up to the 2013 assembly...

As expected, Twitterati poked fun at the age-old comparisons with the mythical ‘Sharmaji’s son’ and even Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was not spared.

The Rachakonda Police on Saturday said they have arrested a man for allegedly killing his son-in-law who belonged to another caste.

A 19-year-old woman was allegedly raped by her three brothers-in-law at the "behest" of her husband at their house in Dahod district last Saturday, police said on Saturday.

In a first, the West Bengal government is mulling a fixed fee structure for all private schools across the state. The decision will include suggestions from all stakeholders involved, including owners of these institutes and other trusts.

A bill has been re-introduced in the House of Representatives to exempt foreign-born persons with American PhDs in science, technology, engineering or mathematics from the limits on the number of employment-based green cards and H-1B visas awarded annuall...