Former Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has accused Opposition leaders of misleading people on the issue of reservation.
The Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday released the final voter turnout data for the first two legs of the seven-phase Lok Sabha elections, showing a turnout of over 66 per cent in both phases.
Commenting on reservations for Muslims, BJP President J.P. Nadda said on Tuesday that B.R. Ambedkar said there is no place for reservation based on religious lines.
Odisha continued to reel under severe heat wave conditions as the mercury touched 46 degrees Celsius in two cities of the state on Tuesday, while 15 places recorded 44 degrees or higher, a senior India Meteorological Department official said.
The lawyer for a residential school survivor leading a proposed class-action lawsuit against the Catholic Church and one of its priests says legal action is a fallback to get everyone to come together and resolve the issue.
British Columbia has secured eight new sites for its BC Builds program, in which land owned by the province, non-profits or community groups is pre-zoned to build middle-income rental housing.