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Canadian PM Justin Trudeau says legalised marijuana will keep youth safe

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau said the government will draw the line when it comes to legalising illicit drugs in the country.

Mar 3, 2017

Kerala crisis: In God's own country, there is no end to BJP/RSS and CPM feud

A CPM office was also set on fire on Thursday night after an RSS office was bombed that injured three RSS workers.

Mar 3, 2017

Maharashtra: 10 things we know about Mathew Roy, the whistleblower 'sahayak' from Kerala found dead in Nashik

Lance Naik Mathew Roy had been seen in a video walking his senior's dog and taking his children to school, and later complaining about it.

Mar 3, 2017

Indus Waters Treaty: India set to attend Permanent Indus Commission meeting in Lahore in March

Amid tension between the two neighbours after PM Modi's threat to block the flow of water into Pakistan, India will be attending the commission's meeting.

Mar 3, 2017

World Wildlife Day 2017: When is it, why is it celebrated and what is the theme this year? [VIDEO]

Find out how World Wildlife Day came to be celebrated, and what the theme for this year is.

Mar 3, 2017

China should pay more attention to India's growth in manufacturing sector, says Beijing-based Global Times

While pointing out the flaws in the Indian manufacturing sector, the editorial in Global Times also commended India for growing.

Mar 3, 2017

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions recuses himself from campaign probes

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions removed himself from any investigations into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election because he said he was involved with President Donald Trumps campaign. Let me be clear, I never had meetings with Russian operatives or Russian intermediaries about the Trump campaign and the idea that I was part of a continuing exchange of information during the campaign between Trump surrogates and intermediaries for the Russia government is totally false ... and that is the question I responded to, he said.

Mar 3, 2017

Bengaluru steel flyover may be people's victory, but public pressure can lead to disastrous results too

Two important industrial plans in Singur and Nandigram in West Bengal were cancelled after people resisted, leaving the state's economic prospects shattered.

Mar 3, 2017

Supreme Court-appointed SIT says Rs 70,000 crore black money unearthed; but is Rs 559 per Indian enough?

The recovered amount is much lesser than what would ensure putting Rs 15 lakh in the account of each Indian — something that Narendra Modi had promised in the run-up to the 2014 LS polls.

Mar 3, 2017

India news LIVE updates: West Bengal state assembly passes Clinical Establishments (Registration, Regulation and Transparency) Bill

To ensure transparent functioning of clinical establishments, the state assembly of WB has passed the Clinical Establishments (Registration, Regulation and Transparency) Bill.

Mar 3, 2017

Kerala Budget 2017 Highlights: FM Thomas Isaac's 8th budget ends in anti-climax

Kerala finance minister T.M. Thomas Isaac presents the 68th state budget in the Assembly.

Mar 3, 2017

Watch: Brown is the new Black? Indian woman harassed on New York train by African-American man [VIDEO]

An African-American man hurled racial slurs at Ekta Desai, who later tried to lodge a complaint with the relevant authorities, but failed.

Mar 3, 2017

Manipur Assembly Elections 2017: Phase 1 complete details and interesting facts

Thirty-eight constituencies out of the 60-member Legislative Assembly will go to polls in Phase 1 of Manipur Assembly Election 2017 on Saturday, March 4.

Mar 3, 2017

Kerala: 4 hurt as bomb thrown at RSS headquarters in Kozhikode; is Left-wing extremism on rise in state?

While four were hurt after a bomb was thrown at the RSS headquarters in Kozhikode, there have been several incidents of RSS and BJP men being attacked by CPI-M cadres in Kerala.

Mar 3, 2017

Watch outrageous sexist speech by Polish MEP Janusz Korwin-Mikke

A Polish MEP sparked outrage on 1 March when he claimed women must earn less than men in the workplace because they are weaker, smaller and less intelligent. Speaking at a debate about the gender pay gap in Europe Janusz Korwin-Mikke, a conservative and Eurosceptic politician from Warsaw, bizarrely pointed out that there are no women in the worlds top 100 chess players to make his case.

Mar 2, 2017