Karachi, May 19 (ANI): Religious discrimination and acts like forced conversion of Hindu girls in Pakistan should be declared as crimes against humanity and legal action should be taken to curb it, speakers at a consultation on minority rights have said.

Bhubaneshwar , May 18 (ANI): The Information and Broadcasting Minister , Manish Tewari, has blamed the opposition for the Governments inability to pass the Food Security Bill, which would have helped the country's poor. He was speaking during his visit to Odisha.

Washington, May 18 (ANI): President Barack Obama has spoken of the importance of fathers to their sons on Friday after a young man he met at a community center in Baltimore mentioned wanting to provide for his sons.

Islamabad, May 16 (ANI): The brother of slain Pakistani minister Shahbaz Bhatti will speak in front of Pope Francis and some 120,000 members of new Catholic religious movements on Saturday, the Vatican has said.

Seoni, May 14 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh Assembly Deputy Speaker and senior Congress leader Harvansh Singh died of cardiac arrest here today. He was 63.

London, May 9 (ANI): Ahead of the forthcoming elections, none of Pakistan's leading political parties are set to achieve a majority in the National Assembly, a recent survey on Pakistan's electoral politics has revealed.

London, May 8 (ANI): Plants appear to help each other grow with soothing microscopic sounds, a new study has found.

New Delhi, May 7 (ANI): Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar unveiled a statue of former Andhra Pradesh chief minister and Founder of Telugu Desam Party N T Rama Rao in Parliament on Tuesday.

New Delhi, May 7 (ANI): Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar unveiled the statue of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) founder N T Rama Rao in Parliament on Tuesday.

Johannesburg, May 7 (ANI): The South African cricket team is reportedly set to helped with the mental aspect of their game by an adventurer and motivational speaker as they prepare for the ICC Champions Trophy in England in June.

New Delhi, May 2 (ANI): Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Thursday rejected an opposition demand for removing P.C. Chacko, as the chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) that is probing various aspects of the 2G Spectrum allocation scandal.

London, May 2 (ANI): A new survey has found that management-speak and all-staff emails have become some of the biggest office bugbears.

New Delhi, May 1 (ANI): Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Wednesday termed the Bharatiya Janata Party's decision not to attend any meeting convened by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar or Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath for the rest of the session as another sad development in the Indian democracy.

New Delhi, May 1 (ANI): The Speaker and several Members of the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly called on President Pranab Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Wednesday.

Pune (Maharashtra), May 1 (ANI): In a first of its kind corporate HR meet on social media, Linked in Director and Head Talent Solutions for Linked In India, Irfan Abdulla addressed senior HR professionals from the Pune industry at the ASM Group on April 29 here.

Beijing, Apr. 30 (Xinhua-ANI): Bangladesh for the first time is going to get a woman speaker for its parliament as the ruling Awami League Parliamentary Party has unanimously nominated State Minister of Women and Child Affairs Dr. Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury for the post of speaker of parliament Monday evening.

London, Apr 28 (ANI): Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has admitted that his foreign players do not understand him when he speaks because of his strong Scottish accent, although he added that he too, has difficulty in pronouncing some of their names.

New Delhi, April 26 (ANI): The chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee that is looking into the 2G Scam, P C Chacko, on Friday said that he will be meeting the Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar to seek guidance on when to convene the next meeting of the JPC.

New Delhi, Apr. 25 (ANI): With the opposition members demanding his ouster from the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) that is looking the 2G spectrum allocation scam, panel chairperson and Congressman P.C. Chacko on Thursday said it is Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar's discretion and she has to take a decision on it.

New Delhi, Apr. 25 (ANI): Minister of State in Prime Minister's Office (PMO) V. Narayanasamy on Thursday lashed out at the opposition members of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), which is looking the 2G spectrum allocation scam, for demanding the removal of panel chairperson P.C. Chacko, saying it is unwarranted, unnecessary and politically motivated.

New Delhi, Apr. 25 (ANI): Opposition members of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) that is looking the 2G spectrum allocation scam, have submitted a memorandum to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar expressing no confidence against panel chairperson P.C. Chacko.

Washington, Apr. 25 (ANI): Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's paid speaking circuit has begun.

Washington, April 25 (ANI): Deep male voices and high-pitched female voices are perceived as more attractive because listeners gauge the speaker's body size from the frequency of their voice, according to a new research.

Washington, Apr. 21 (ANI): The surviving suspect of the Boston Marathon bombings may not be able to talk after he suffered an injury to his throat, a federal official has said.

Washington, Apr 18 (ANI): Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has pointed out that gender equality cannot be achieved unless men equally participate in the discussion.