India

New Delhi, Jul 18 (PTI) The Supreme Court today said women have the constitutional right to enter Sabarimala temple in Kerala and pray like men without being discriminated against.

A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, which is hearing a petition challenging the decision of the Devaswom board banning entry of women of age group 10-50 years, said that even if there was no law, the women cannot be discriminated against with regard to offering prayer in a temple.

PTI; New Delhi, Jul 17 : The Supreme Court today asked Parliament to consider enacting a new law to effectively deal with incidents of mob lynching, saying "horrendous acts of mobocracy" cannot be allowed to become a new norm.

A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra also passed a slew of directions to provide "preventive, remedial and punitive measures" to deal with offences like mob violence and cow vigilantism.

PTI; Balasore (Odisha), Jul 16 : Supersonic cruise missile BrahMos was today successfully test fired from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur.

The missile was launched at about 10.15 am from the launch complex three of the ITR and successfully flew in its pre-set trajectory meeting its mission objectives, Defence Research and Development (DRDO) sources said.

PTI; Sambhal (UP), July 16 : Two of the five people accused of burning a woman alive after raping her in Rajpura area of Sambhal district have been arrested, the police said today.

The woman was allegedly burnt alive inside a temple premises after she was raped by the five people in her house on Saturday.

Superintendent of Police R M Bharadwaj said, "The prime accused in the case, Aram Singh and Bhona alias Kunwar Pal, have been arrested. Both of them are being interrogated."

New Delhi, July 14 : India’s trade deficit widened to its highest in more than five years in June, the trade ministry said on Friday.

The deficit is claimed to have been caused by a surge in oil imports despite an increase in merchandise exports.

The trade deficit widened to $16.6 billion that surged 56.61 percent to $12.73 billion. In May the trade deficit stood at $14.62 billion the Ministry of Commerce and Industry said in a statement. India’s gold imports fell 2.8 percent year-on-year to $2.39 billion in June from a year ago, the statement said.

PTI; New Delhi, Jul 12 : Accusing the government of fusing "neo-liberalism" and "Hindutva" in education, the CPI(M) today called upon students, teachers and people in general to oppose the Centre's education policies.

PTI; Kolkata, July 12 : CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury today said that law should be allowed to take its own course in the case of alleged child racket by Missionaries of Charity (MoC).

New Delhi, July 12 : Retail inflation rate accelerated to a five-month high of 5.0 percent in June, government data showed on Thursday, driven by higher fuel prices and a depreciating rupee.

June was the eighth straight month in which inflation was higher than the central bank's medium-term target of 4 percent. Economists polled by news agency Reuters had forecast June's annual increase in the consumer price index at 5.30 percent, compared with May's 4.87 percent. 

Kuldeep Singh Sengar has been charged for raping a teenager whose complains were ignored by police until she tried to set herself alight.

Her father, who kept pursuing her case, was detained by police and severely beaten. He later died from his injuries.

In April, nearly a year after her assault, the girl tried to set herself on fire outside the home of Uttar Pradesh’s chief minister Yogi Adityanath.

The sense of impunity enjoyed by Sengar, a powerful Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) MLA, and his brother, sparked protests across India demanding justice.

Ministry of Human Resources has decided to give Institute of eminence (IoE) award to Jio Institute, which does not exists.

The Jio institute will be owned by the Reliance Foundation, and will start in 3 years time. It has been learnt that The Government of India will provide 1000 crores funding to this privately held institute.

In a statement issued on July 10, Students Federation of India called it a “daylight robbery of public resource”.