Maneka Gandhi

Varun, Maneka Gandhi dropped from BJP's national executive list after his Lakhimpur Kheri tweets

Besides 80 regular members, the executive will also have 50 special invitees and 179 permanent invitees.

Nagaland bans sale, consumption of dog meat in state; import and trading of dogs deemed illegal as well

Animal rights group FIAPO had written to the Nagaland state government urging it to impose a ban on the slaughter of dogs

Ferocity of Sabarimala protests proves Hinduism is taking on Abrahamic characteristics to tackle external threats

The issue of entry of menstruating women into the Sabarimala temple should never have been the cause for a debate on the touchstone of one-size-fits-all feminism.

Trees are not inanimate, passive species, but can smell, taste and actually signal stress when in distress

Unable to run away, plants deploy a complex vocabulary to signal distress, deter or poison enemies, and recruit animals to perform various services for them.

Bonsai does't enhance interior design, aquariums aren't aesthetic, breads kill birds: Stop inflicting pain on animals and trees

Bonsai trees are actually huge ones that are weakened and stunted constantly by cutting their roots, and not allowing them to grow.

Humans are not the ultimate beings on earth, there are many in animal, avian, marine spheres that have similar skills and feelings

The human is the ultimate cannibal: eating his own kind, humans in another form, again and again.

Lok Sabha updates: You are more answerable than ever, Speaker Om Birla tells Centre, assures Opposition he'll be unbiased

Lok Sabha LIVE updates: Speaker Om Birla, in his thank you note to the House, said that the Narendra Modi government, which will be serving its second term is more answerable to the people of India than ever. He thanked the prime minister, his party and all the other members of the House for putting their faith in him.

Virendra Kumar to be pro tem speaker of 17th Lok Sabha; seven-time MP has been a former ABVP convenor in Madhya Pradesh

BJP MP Virendra Kumar will be the pro tem speaker of the newly elected 17th Lok Sabha.

Voting begins in 59 seats for Phase 6 of Lok Sabha election: Sheila Dikshit, Akhilesh Yadav, Digvijaya Singh among prominent candidates

Polling began Sunday morning for 59 Lok Sabha seats in the sixth and penultimate phase of Lok Sabha polls, with Union ministers Radha Mohan Singh, Harsh Vardhan and Maneka Gandhi, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and Congress leaders Digvijaya Singh and Jyotiraditya Scindia among several prominent faces in the fray.

EC has come a long way in punishing netas for outrageous remarks; more bans handed out this year than in 2014

The Election Commission seems no more reluctant to dish out punishment after it was rapped on the knuckles by the Supreme Court in the presence of the CJI Ranjan Gogoi for not taking any action on erring leaders and not following-up on its own notices, served on any instance of MCC violation.