Written By Sidharth Pandey

Senior BJP leaders attending the funeral of a soldier killed in the Monday encounter with terrorists in Pulwama were accused of insensitive behaviour by relatives of the army man.

A "mystery fever" has claimed 84 lives across six districts of Uttar Pradesh in the last six weeks, forcing the Yogi Adityanath government to sound a high alert. While Bareilly district in the west reported 24 casualties, the highest among affected areas, 23 succumbed to the ailment in adjoining Budaun district.

The country's top green court today issued a strong warning to the Karnataka government and the civic authorities of state capital Bengaluru for failing to control the pollution in the frothing, fuming Bellandur lake. The state had been given a month's deadline to clean up the lake, which gets over on May 19, but has failed to finish the job.

Thousands of visitors and tourists arriving in the hill town of Nainital are in for surprise. The lake, from which the town gets its name, has gone down by 18 feet from its levels in October, which has exposed large gravel banks along its perimeters at various points.

After protests from several states, the Union Environment Ministry is examining changing the definition of cattle in its new rules to exclude buffaloes from a ban on sale for slaughter at animal markets, sources have said. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Kerala's Pinarayi Vijayan called the order an attack on state powers and said th...

It's nothing less than a paradigm shift in the way that cases are filed and fought in Indian courts. Starting July 3 when a majority of the judges and lawyers return after summer vacation to the Supreme Court, they will encounter a brand new system of filing and fighting cases in India's top courts.

A day after the National Green Tribunal lashed out for the sloppy manner in which earth excavated during a road widening project to Gangotri was disposed, the Uttarakhand government on Thursday conceded that there were slippages and promised to take corrective action.

To deal with complaints about elections being vulnerable to rigged voting machines, the Election Commission has called a meeting on the 12th of this month with the leaders of all major parties. After that, a hackathon will be held in the last week of May that will give techies and others a shot at proving that electronic voting machines or EVMs can...

The Rs 12,000 crore all-weather road project for Uttarakhand's Char Dham religious circuit launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi could hit a green hurdle. The National Green Tribunal on Wednesday gave the Uttarakhand Government a tongue-lashing and asked the state why it should not stop the construction after complaints that contractors were tak...

The National Green Tribunal on Tuesday issued a notice to the centre and the Uttarakhand government seeking their response as to why proper regulations and policy have not been framed regarding helicopter service to the Kedarnath shrine.

The 100 kilometre-stretch in Uttarakhand between Uttarkashi to Gangotri is one of the most picturesque drives in India. Snow clad mountains, dozens of streams and waterfalls dot the landscape as one travels higher up towards Gangotri which is where the road ends. Eighteen kilometres beyond that, trekkers can make their way to the Gaumukh glacier wh...

Starting today, hundreds of pubs, five-star hotels and other watering holes within 500 metres from the National Highways will either go dry, or shut shop. The Supreme Court yesterday upheld its December 15, 2016, decision to shut down liquor vends along the highways, but made it clear that other places that serve alcohol, too, would have to take th...

On a day when India formally asked Pakistan to help locate two Muslim clerics of Delhi's Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia Dargah, who have been missing in the neighbouring country since Thursday, the clerics' family told NDTV that they were probably in the custody of Pakistan's intelligence agencies.

The baffling question of why Delhi's air pollution continues to break records has drawn many replies from experts that range from burning of farm waste and construction dust to trucks entering the national capital. NDTV has uncovered a big contributor of the smoke that pulls down Delhi's air quality, makes the capital's air among the world's most p...

As a hotter-than-normal summer looms ahead, there is some good news for lovers of camping and recreational sports - camping along the river Ganga near Rishikesh is allowed once again. The National Green Tribunal has lifted a 2-year-old ban today, accepting the Uttarakhand government's proposal to allow camping in 25 selected areas. But the camp sit...

Senior BJP leaders attending the funeral of a soldier killed in the Monday encounter with terrorists in Pulwama were accused of insensitive behaviour by relatives of the army man.

A "mystery fever" has claimed 84 lives across six districts of Uttar Pradesh in the last six weeks, forcing the Yogi Adityanath government to sound a high alert. While Bareilly district in the west reported 24 casualties, the highest among affected areas, 23 succumbed to the ailment in adjoining Budaun district.

The country's top green court today issued a strong warning to the Karnataka government and the civic authorities of state capital Bengaluru for failing to control the pollution in the frothing, fuming Bellandur lake. The state had been given a month's deadline to clean up the lake, which gets over on May 19, but has failed to finish the job.

Thousands of visitors and tourists arriving in the hill town of Nainital are in for surprise. The lake, from which the town gets its name, has gone down by 18 feet from its levels in October, which has exposed large gravel banks along its perimeters at various points.

After protests from several states, the Union Environment Ministry is examining changing the definition of cattle in its new rules to exclude buffaloes from a ban on sale for slaughter at animal markets, sources have said. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Kerala's Pinarayi Vijayan called the order an attack on state powers and said th...

It's nothing less than a paradigm shift in the way that cases are filed and fought in Indian courts. Starting July 3 when a majority of the judges and lawyers return after summer vacation to the Supreme Court, they will encounter a brand new system of filing and fighting cases in India's top courts.

A day after the National Green Tribunal lashed out for the sloppy manner in which earth excavated during a road widening project to Gangotri was disposed, the Uttarakhand government on Thursday conceded that there were slippages and promised to take corrective action.

To deal with complaints about elections being vulnerable to rigged voting machines, the Election Commission has called a meeting on the 12th of this month with the leaders of all major parties. After that, a hackathon will be held in the last week of May that will give techies and others a shot at proving that electronic voting machines or EVMs can...

The Rs 12,000 crore all-weather road project for Uttarakhand's Char Dham religious circuit launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi could hit a green hurdle. The National Green Tribunal on Wednesday gave the Uttarakhand Government a tongue-lashing and asked the state why it should not stop the construction after complaints that contractors were tak...

The National Green Tribunal on Tuesday issued a notice to the centre and the Uttarakhand government seeking their response as to why proper regulations and policy have not been framed regarding helicopter service to the Kedarnath shrine.

The 100 kilometre-stretch in Uttarakhand between Uttarkashi to Gangotri is one of the most picturesque drives in India. Snow clad mountains, dozens of streams and waterfalls dot the landscape as one travels higher up towards Gangotri which is where the road ends. Eighteen kilometres beyond that, trekkers can make their way to the Gaumukh glacier wh...

Starting today, hundreds of pubs, five-star hotels and other watering holes within 500 metres from the National Highways will either go dry, or shut shop. The Supreme Court yesterday upheld its December 15, 2016, decision to shut down liquor vends along the highways, but made it clear that other places that serve alcohol, too, would have to take th...

On a day when India formally asked Pakistan to help locate two Muslim clerics of Delhi's Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia Dargah, who have been missing in the neighbouring country since Thursday, the clerics' family told NDTV that they were probably in the custody of Pakistan's intelligence agencies.

The baffling question of why Delhi's air pollution continues to break records has drawn many replies from experts that range from burning of farm waste and construction dust to trucks entering the national capital. NDTV has uncovered a big contributor of the smoke that pulls down Delhi's air quality, makes the capital's air among the world's most p...

As a hotter-than-normal summer looms ahead, there is some good news for lovers of camping and recreational sports - camping along the river Ganga near Rishikesh is allowed once again. The National Green Tribunal has lifted a 2-year-old ban today, accepting the Uttarakhand government's proposal to allow camping in 25 selected areas. But the camp sit...