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Atrocities reported against SCs in Gujarat saw a rise to the tune of 31% — from 1,009 cases in 2015 to 1,321 in 2016.

The NITI Aayog CEO said that to boost tourism, India must focus on cleanliness. "You can't have garbage and filth and say that we have great heritage sites," Amitabh Kant said.

The 12,000 newly created posts will be expected to accommodate 10,323 primary teachers, whose appointments had already been quashed by the SC in March this year.

Kaushik breathed his last at his residence in Mahasamund town this afternoon due to age-related ailments, his family members said.

Zakia Jafri is the widow of Ehsan Jafri, a former Congress MP, who was among 68 people killed when a mob set his house in Gulberg Society on fire on February 28, 2002, a day after the Godhra train burning incident.

According to the report, 65% policymakers in India felt that men and women had become more equal in the last five years, but a plurality (46%) also felt that gender issues received too little attention in state policy.

The UPSC Main 2017 Civil Services exam is scheduled to begin from October 28, 2017 till November 3, 2017. The e-Admit cards will be available till November 3, 2017.

The Indian Army is retaliating effectively and the firing is still on along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, a Defence Spokesman said.

The trio, aged 16-18 years, were allegedly in an inebriated state and were run over near Bidadi, about 30 km from Bengaluru, said police.

A Dalit was lynched by the upper caste Patel community for watching people do the garba, the traditional Gujarati dance, on Saturday last week, while another was beaten up on Sunday in the Gandhinagar district by Rajputs for sporting a moustache.

"I have always found Rashtrapati ji to be sensitive towards the aspirations of 125 crore Indians, especially the poor and marginalised," the Prime Minister said in a statement.

Addressing the officers and personnel of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), the defence minister, who is on a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir, said the construction of bridges and roads at such high-altitude terrain was nothing short of a miracle.

Shraddha and her father worked at the Labour Welfare Board on the Elphinstone road. They would travel to the office together from their house in distant Vitthalwadi in neighbouring Thane district.

The National Security Committee in a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was informed that the premier handed over a dossier documenting "the systematic human rights violations by India" in Kashmir to Guterres during the UN General Asse...

The stampede took place around 10.40 am when the overbridge linking the Elphinstone and Parel stations became overcrowded as people scurried to take shelter from a heavy downpour.

The stampede occurred at 10:46 am along the narrow footover bridge leading to the exit of the station on the western railway of the Mumbai local train services.