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From depicting Gods eating meat to encouraging extra-marital affairs, do you remember these advertisements that caused a furore?

Telangana government has issued an order to officers of every department to grant special casual leave for women on the occasion of Women's Day

From the celebration of Basant Panchami at dargahs of Chisti saints, to the festival's connection with Holi, here are some lesser-known facts  

Several steps are required to holistically attain female empowerment. First, a woman must establish independence. Next, she must have the opportunity to generate wealth. Then, resources must exist for social and economic empowerment.

Rahaf Mohammed al- Qunun  said that she fled from her family during a holiday in Kuwait and boarded a flight to Thailand. However, when she reached Bangkok, her passport was confiscated by Saudi officials and she is now being held in the Miracle Transit Hotel at the airport.

Shops were seen open and buses were moving as usual in Bagalkot district in Karnataka. However, schools and colleges remained closed today.

Buses ran through the roads as usual in Koppal and Davanagere. Even hotels remained open in Davanagere.

Government-run buses and autorickshaws were seen travelling on road as usual. Private bus staffers have supported the strike despite owners not extending their support.

Seven members of a British Indian family were on a holiday in the Nordic island country when their SUV crashed off the bridge. Two women and a child died in accident and two children of the family are in critical condition. 
 

The Ganga may be the most celebrated and longest of the seven sacred rivers, but the Narmada at No 5 is the holiest as well as the oldest. There is enough evidence, both scriptural and scientific, to suggest it. The Matysa Purana clearly says the Ganga is sacred at Kankhala (Hardwar), the Saraswati at Kurukshetra, but the Narmada is sacred all along its banks, be it forest or places inhabited

Responses to two RTI queries and a CIC statement flies on the face of Rahul Gandhi's holier-than-thou attitude that egged him on to mock Prime Minister Narendra Modi whose regime had merely updated a 2009 order issued by the UPA government led by the Congress