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India’s public health record suffered repeated blows last week. The WHO obesity report in The Lancet gave India the dubious honour of being the most malnutritioned country in the world, beating those in Sub-Saharan Africa.

There exists a long list of cases which were under constant media glare and the trial court judgments were quite often overturned or modified by the superior courts.

Sherin Mathews vanished last Saturday after her father Wesley Mathews told police he left her outside at 3 a.m. as punishment for not drinking her milk.

The question that still remains unanswered is: Who killed Aarushi and Hemraj?

The direction came on Saturday while disposing of the plea filed by Delhi University law student Nithin Chandran, through advocate Aditya Parolia against indiscriminate wastage of paper during student body elections

Lanba also said, that the Indian Navy, as the lead agency entrusted with the overall responsibility of maritime security post 26/11, had gained significant success in weaving together a working protocol between different government agencies in order to re...

Garbage dumping at the site was banned after a portion of the waste dump collapsed, killing two persons last month.

"There is a long list of people from various walks of life who were paid tributes at the RSS meeting. It also includes the name of Gauri Lankesh," RSS Prachar Pramukh Manmohan Vaidya told PTI.

Following the assault, the Haryana Police booked the victim for allegedly smuggling beef, but a case against the self-styled cow vigilantes was yet to be filed.

Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) president Prayar Gopalakrishnan said he would not let Sabarimala become another Thailand.

A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra asked the government to constitute an experts committee to create such firewalls.

A bench led by Justice Ranjan Gogoi refused to entertain a petition filed by Nitesh Gupta, who contended in his plea that he did not get sufficient opportunity to explain before a decision was taken to sack him.

The Allahabad High Court has acquitted Rajesh and Nupur Talwar of the charges of murdering their daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj in 2008.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday had lowered India’s growth projection to 6.7 % in 2017, 0.5 percentage points less than its previous two forecasts in April and July.

Ritabrata Banerjee, on the other hand, had also lodged a complaint with the Balurghat police that the woman was blackmailing and pressurizing him to pay her.

The move will benefit 7.58 lakh teachers and academic staff equivalent to them in 106 universities and colleges funded by the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the HRD ministry. More than 300 state-funded universities and 12,912 government and privat...