India

NREGA has had a disproportionate impact on closing the rural wage gap. Starting with its stated goal of ensuring “no discrimination on the basis of gender in payment of wages”, studies have shown the positive impact of the pro women provisions in the Act.

A suspected IS operative was killed in the wee hours of Wednesday after an 11-hour-long anti-terror operation conducted by the Uttar Pradesh Police's Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) commandos.

The Centre on Tuesday clarified that no one will be deprived of the benefits of subsidy schemes for the want of Aadhaar number and other identity proofs will be accepted.

A page called Mangalore Muslims on Facebook said, 'Suhana you have tarnished the Muslim Community by singing in front of men.'

Auction of two plush properties of Vijay Mallya's defunct Kingfisher Airlines -- Kingfisher House in this metropolis and Kingfisher Villa in Goa -- proved to be a damp squib once again on Monday with not a single bid coming in.

"Motormouth" Samajwadi Party leader Abu Azmi is in the news once again, and for all the wrong reasons.

The temporary suspension of premium H1-B visa processing by the US administration would delay their issue to the Indian IT firms too but is not a major imperdiment, said industry's representative body Nasscom on Sunday.

Admitting to an instance of attempt to misuse bio-metric data, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Sunday said that the information on individuals enrolled by it is safe and secure.

China on Saturday warned India against allowing the Dalai Lama to visit Arunachal Pradesh, saying it would cause "serious damage" to the bilateral ties and peace in the "disputed" border region.

In a bid to bring more patients back to government hospitals, Kerala government has recommitted itself to distribute free medicines for non-communicable diseases, diabetes and hypertension, state health secretary Rajeev Sadanandan told News18 on Friday.

At a time when political discourse in Uttar Pradesh has shifted to cremation and burial grounds, one shamshan ghat (crematorium) stands out.

The Dalai Lama will be in the north eastern state from April 4 to 13 and Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju, among others, will meet him there.

An infant girl with her heart beating outside her body was born in a village in lower Assam's Dhubri district and has been kept at the intensive care unit in Gauhati Medical College.

Kuchibhotla's parents K. Madhusudhana Sastry and Parvata Vardhini and other family members received the body. After completing all formalities, the body was carried in an ambulance to his house at Bachupally on the city outskirts.

The United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), an umbrella body of nine unions in the sector, has called a one-day strike on February 28 to protest the government's "anti-people banking reforms" as well as to demand compensation for employees for extra work done...

Parag M Dhakate, Director, Corbett Tiger Park, removed from his post following controversy over shoot-at-sight orders to deal with poachers.