Lesbians: butch, unkempt and tomboyish. Gay: Effeminate, stylish and well-groomed. These are some of the popular perceptions that were peddled by society in the last few decades.
Meet Niyog, the first ever Indian to have completed the gruelling Fjällräven Polar Arctic Expedition – one of the toughest tests of human stamina, endurance and fortitude – in April 2018.
The National Development Council (NDC), a NITI Aayog body, grants the Special Category Status (SCS) to states that are disadvantaged as compared to the others.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat called Rahul Gandhi a "jumla" and said that the Congress president was not taken seriously in the country.
The new CM of the North Eastern state said that Meghalaya faces challenges in connectivity, roads, social welfare and problems faced by the youth.
According to a study by the think-tank, Observer Research Foundation (ORF), ad-hoc measures taken by state and central government have been ineffective as questions of privacy and trespassing; air traffic, terrorist threat management, and legal liability have not been addressed properly.
In the wake of the Nirav Modi-PNB scam, a diamond merchant tells News18 the dubious manner in which businessmen inflate their balance sheets by distributing diamond consignments around the globe.
With superstars Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan having announced their political foray, News18 analyses the close-knit history behind Tamil Nadu’s two biggest obsessions – films and politics.
As a fallout, the 2017 Himachal Pradesh elections might be the final political stretch for a few names that have been synonymous with hill state for decades.
As the old guard moves out, Rahul Gandhi, too, brings with him a hand-picked group of individuals who might help him run the show.
PM Narendra had claimed at an election rally in Gujarat that Congress leaders held a “secret meeting” with current and former Pakistani officials following which Mani Shankar Aiyar made the "neech" remark against him.
Delhi University student union elections are fought with all the rigour and seriousness of the senior league. Around 1.3 lakh regular students, nearly a 1.15 of which are undergraduates coming from different parts of the country are a microcosm of India's diversity.
Section 377 prohibits ‘unnatural sex’ or carnal intercourse against the order of nature. It is a colonial-era law (1861) that prohibits non-penovaginal intercourse and makes it a punishable offence
"I think they're very serious about it. I think they want to do it," he said in a prerecorded interview on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" programme.
A Malian military source confirmed the incident, which came two days after a deadly attack on the headquarters of a five-nation African force in Mali.
The firm is also recalling 6,397 bottles of 80 mg on account of "presence of foreign substance: A product complaint was received for a defective tablet with an embedded foreign object observed in a bottle," regulator USFDA said.
Amid rising instances of white-collar crimes and banking frauds, President Kovind said there is a fine line between intelligent tax planning, tax dodging and tax evasion, and chartered accountants are the custodians of that fine line.
So far, 15 villagers have been detained in connection with the incident. Videos of villagers brutally beating the motionless, bleeding bodies of the five individuals have also surfaced.
Every step taken by the BJP government, starting from the GST Constitution Amendment Bill, with regard to the tax was deeply flawed, Chidambaram alleged.
The incident happened on Thursday at the 'Janata Darbar' of the CM here when the principal of a government school in the Nagaon area of Uttarkashi district made a transfer request.
The VID feature aims at strengthening the privacy and security of Aadhaar data, given increasing concerns over collection of personal and demographic details of individuals.
Investigators believed that the consignments – neatly packed in 27 packets – was smuggled in from China and Myanmar and was meant for big cities in India and Bangladesh.
In her complaint, the victim says that she had gone with two of her seniors – Siva Reddy and Krishna Vamsi – to a birthday party in February 2017. There, the men spiked her drink and raped her. They also recorded the act.
At a panchayat meeting, the Dalit man was assaulted, made to lick his own spit and the women in his family were threatened with rape because his son married a Muslim girl from the same village.
The JanaSena leader has raised issues like businesses being dominated by non-locals, the culture and language of Uttarandhra being ridiculed, migration, local entrepreneurship, land grabbing and tribal welfare among others.
Shah said it was disheartening that the “Congress’ politics over Vande Mataram” divided India. The BJP president further added that the song united people from Kashmir to Kanyakumari as it was never religious nor political.
Punjab police constable Harshdeep Singh, placed at the Sohna police station, allegedly snatched a woman’s chain on June 25. The police arrested him on Wednesday from Mohali’s Phase 7 area.