A Delhi Suburb Village Has No ATM, Dispensary Or Primary School But A CCTV Camera Installed At Every House

A little more than an hour’s drive from the city’s bustling crowd and traffic takes you to a small village, bordering Haryana, with not more than 9,000 voters. Green fields, narrow kuccha roads, make Dichaon Kalan seem like just another village in north India.

Like most of its rural counterparts, the village has no ATM, bank, dispensary, or a departmental store even a primary school. But this is where the similarities end. Each and every house has a CCTV camera installed on its gates.

Jamiat Demands Ban On RSS For 'Provoking Communal Activities', RSS Stressed The Need Of Casteless Society

Launching a broadside against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Hindutva organisations, Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind has demanded that Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) be banned for its alleged involvement in several communal activities, including demolition of Babri Masjid, ghar wapsi and campaign for a Hindu Rashtra. 

At Jamiat’s general body meeting held at Lucknow in UP, it was stated the prime minister’s “tacit support to such hate-mongers of the right-wing organisations associated with the RSS” indicated that he was pampering them to continue terrorise one particular community. 

History Is Proof 'Hindus Never Had Any Beef With Beef'

Professor Kancha Ilaiah burst into popular consciousness with his bestseller Why I Am Not a Hindu—A Sudra Critique of Hindutva Philosophy, Culture and Political Economy.

The director of the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy at Maulana Azad National Urdu University—a prominent central university in Hyderabad—Ilaiah peels away the layers of meanings shrouding the ban imposed on cattle slaughter in some Indian states.

How Private Enterprise Is Changing Non-Cricket Sports?

India Inc has entered the country's sporting arena, and is changing the way the nation plays.

There was a time, not too long ago, when it was taken for granted that an aspiring sportsperson in India would have to do any or all of the following: 

• Secure a job in a public sector company, or a large private sector one, for a regular income.
• Scramble for corporate sponsorship to be able to compete at international or even national tournaments.

Edit: Dominating The Discourse Among Beef-Eating Elitists

Religious discrimination is the latest buffet of our cuisine commandos, who have a beef with majority sensibilities. This has led to delirious debates on the sanctity of secularism. 

The malady of their imagination interprets any law they deem to be a threat to minority culture as a threat to freedom of faith and caste apartheid. As the Communalism vs Secularism debate reaches idiosyncratic heights, the vertigo over the choice of meat to be eaten in India is spinning out of control. 

Shocking: Leopards Killed By Poisoned Goat Meat In Aravalli Hills As Villagers Fear Rise Of 'Poaching Racket'

A shocking video showing a goat tied to a tree to lure local leopards in the Aravalli Hills in Gurgoan has gone viral.

Mail Today has seen this video and two similar ones that show a leopard eating the goat. All three videos had been shot from the same angle and show two similar trees to which the goat was tied.

'Beef Ban' In Maharashtra: How Politicians Manipulate 'Hindu Sentiments' Around 'Cow Slaughter'?

Beef has been banned completely in Maharashtra. The Union government has given its assent to the Maharashtra Animal Preservation (Amendment) Bill, almost two decades after the state assembly had passed it under the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party government in 1995.

Maharashtra had always banned the slaughter of cows but allowed the slaughter of bulls, bullocks and water buffalo. The new act will ban the slaughter of all cattle with the exception of water buffaloes.

Power Dynamics: AAP Crisis Isn't A Battle Of Ideas: A Clear Sign Of Irreconcilable Differences Between Friends

Unless there is a last-minute compromise, Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav are likely to head for the exit.

It is tempting to interpret the squabbling in the Aam Aadmi Party as a clash of ideas, a manifestation of the battle the purists are waging against the pragmatists. But in politics, even in its most idealistic expression, ideas often are a cloak that conceals the vaulting ambitions of its practitioners, their inherent desire to impose their will on others.

'Modi's Suit' Drama: A Conman Tries To Dupe The 'Owner'

A conman from Haryana allegedly made a bid to dupe Dharmanandan Diamonds, the company owned by Laljibhai Patel who won the auction for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pinstriped suit, of over 4 crore by trying to get a duplicate cheque encashed.

On February 20, Laljibhai's winning bid of 4.31 core had won him the possession of the suit in a high profile auction in Surat. And the amount was to be used for the Clean Ganga campaign.

Focus: Will 'Aam Aadmi Party' Deliver The True 'Swaraj'?

The initial euphoria over its emphatic electoral win over, the focus is now on realities within which the AAP will have to deliver on its promises. INNLIVE explores if the party can realise its vision of ‘swaraj,’ living up to the true ideals of decentralisation.

Ever since the AAP's win in Delhi, there have been a spate of articles on right wing websites, questioning the rationale of issues that form the core of the AAP's political ideologies.

'Swine Flu Treatment' Burns Hole In Patients' Pocket, Exposes Chinks In Medical Sector In Delhi

Ritu Aggarwal, sitting outside the swine flu ward of Safdarjung Hospital is worried. Her husband Mahesh has been admitted there and the prevailing conditions are unsatisfactory.

“I’ve spent around Rs 15,000 in my hometown in Uttar Pradesh but they lack the facilities to treat swine flu.  They told us to go to Delhi. The government should make swine flu medicines available in the other states too.”

The Delhi Health Services issued show cause notices to two private labs for overcharging more than the specified limit of Rs 4,500 fixed by the government for swine flu tests.

Black Magic, Lucky Numbers And A 'Cursed' Congress Office: Inside The Superstitions Our 'Netas' Can't Live!

That superstition is integral to Karnataka politics has been proved yet again, with the Janata Dal (Secular) allegedly performing black magic to invoke a curse on the ruling Congress before handing over the party head office it had occupied in the heart of the city for the last three decades to India’s Grand Old Party. 

When Congress party workers entered the premises, they were horrified to find lemon, chilly, vermilion and unknown materials wrapped in red cloth. It is claimed they were scared to enter the building till it was “purified”. 

Congress Crisis Deepens As Its Support Base Crumbles

Decimated in Delhi, the party draws solace from humiliation heaped on Modi.

Once it became clear that the Congress was all set for a wipe-out in the Delhi assembly polls, a group of party workers gathered outside the party office headquarters on Tuesday morning to demand that Priyanka Gandhi Vadra play a more active role in politics.

The all-too familiar slogans, “Priyanka lao, Congress bachao” were again raised, similar to the demand made after the party was routed in last year’s Lok Sabha election and subsequently in the Maharashtra and Haryana assembly polls.

Delhi Elections 2015: Why BJP May Not Win Delhi Polls?

It could not have got murkier than this and it could not have been more entertaining. The Delhi election campaign has all the masala associated with a ‘C’ grade Bollywood thriller — gimmicks, midnight exposés, political chicanery and below-the-belt attacks.

If certain poll surveys are to be believed, then the Aam Aadmi Party can easily be expected to cross the magic figure of 36 in the 70-member Delhi Assembly and stake claim to form a government in the city-state.

Focus: Why India’s Nuclear Power Output Is Surging?

With Prime Minister Modi setting an ambitious goal of tripling nuclear power over the next decade, an analysis by IndiaSpend reveals that India’s nuclear-power sector is in the best shape it has ever been to deliver that target.

India is on course to double its nuclear power generation capacity to more than 10,000 mega watts (MW) over the next five years.

Investigation: The Unending Saga Of 'Forest' Fake PhDs

A INNLIVE investigation reveals how India’s premier institute for forestry research bent rules to grant doctorates to several forest service officers. The entire investigation runs on the information flowed over the series of visits conducted by the INNLIVE teams in various places and the main campus in Dehradun.

A corrupt clique of Indian Forest Service (IFS) officers has cankered one of India’s proud institutions, the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE), which has an illustrious history to match its heritage building in Dehradun, Uttarakhand.

Producing Degrees, Not Brilliance: Just A ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ Scheme Won’t Be Enough

Women’s empowerment has suddenly become the most talked about socio-cultural issue in the South Asia region. A case in point would be the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ scheme that was recently launched in Haryana by the Prime Minister. The Government scheme aims to educate girl children and work towards providing better welfare services for women in the country.

Education as the Means and the End
There is a general consensus about the fact that for many young girls and women living in a country like India, which is imbibed in deep patriarchal practices, education is an important tool for achieving the goal of empowerment.

Exclusive: Kiran Bedi May 'Loose', Kejriwal May 'Win' Delhi

The BJP has tried all tricks in the book to win Delhi, from announcing regularisation of slum colonies to paradropping Kiran Bedi in the state unit to making political capital of the Obama visit, but nothing seems to be working for it at the moment. 

Not long ago, the consensus among poll observers was that Delhi would be a cake-walk for the party what with its spectacular performance in assembly elections in other states. Only a couple of weeks ago, everyone accepted AAP was a strong challenger but that BJP had the edge with the Congress nowhere in the picture. How things have changed!

Punjab Food Scam: Only 87 Vehicles Out Of 3,300 Trucks Transported Rice Were Traced, Where Are The 'Missing'!

In Punjab, state government agencies can transport paddy by 3,232 trucks that are actually invisible. Crores of rupees can be paid to the transporters for moving the food stock to the Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns . It has now come to light that in the state, the FCI hired four top nodal state government agencies that transported paddy by 3,232 trucks that don't exist; and in certain cases even by "trucks" that actually looked like scooters and motor cycles, or were too rickety even to move.

Will Jaitley, Shah Help 'Srini' To Retain Grip Over BCCI?

The Supreme Court has laid down the law for N Srinivasan saying that he can't contest any BCCI polls unless he gives up his ownership of IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings, but does that mean it's all over for the BCCI president who has resisted all calls to vacate his seat so far? Not just yet.

In its verdict the apex court said,"We make it clear that the disqualification for contesting elections applicable to those who are holding any commercial interest in BCCI events shall hold good and continue till such time the person concerned holds such commercial interest or till the Committee considers and awards suitable punishment to those liable for the same; whichever is later."