During the one-day session, called exclusively to discuss the cattle ban notification, members of ruling CPI(M)-led LDF and Congress-headed UDF opposition-held that it was not only an "intrusion" into state's rights but also an "infringement" on the rights of people on choice of their food habits
Labour Party candidate Preet Kaur Gill won her Birmingham Edgbaston seat by polling 24,124 votes, defeating ruling Conservative party rival Caroline Squire by 6,917 votes
Soon after Suresh Prabhu took over as the Railway Minister in the Narendra Modi government, he initiated to set up a department to work exclusively on social media interaction in July 2015. The Ministry’s Twitter handle has logged 3.78 lakh tweets so far
In a panel discussion on "Regional Perspectives on the US Strategy in Afghanistan, Pakistani envoy Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry said Haqqani and the Taliban are not Pakistan's friends
Three men allegedly gang-raped a woman after throwing her nine-month-old daughter off an auto-rickshaw, causing her death, in Gurgaon
Raja Chari, a 39-year-old lieutenant colonel in the US Air Force, was selected after NASA received a record-breaking 18,300 applications to join the future of space exploration
Ian Toothill, who has been told he has just months to live, was diagnosed with bowel cancer in June 2015 and told in early 2016 that he had beaten the disease, but later found out it had returned
The HRD Ministry has asked the University Grants Commission (UGC) to issue necessary advisory to all higher educational institutions