New Delhi: JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar addresses media at JNU in New Delhi on March 4, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) Delhi Police on Wednesday told a court here that JNU students…
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) A court here on Wednesday reserved for March 18 its order on a bail plea of JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, facing sedition charge. Delhi Police opposed the…
London, March 16 (IANS) People buying rare plants through social media are placing the species at risk of extinction and the trade must be monitored, warn researchers. Using the orchid trade as a case study,…
Tehran, March 16 (IANS) At least three people were killed and hundreds injured in Chaharshanbeh Suri (fire festival) in Iran, an official said on Wednesday. The dead were from Tehran, Qazvin and Rasht cities, Xinhua…
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday protested Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan’s decision to refer the issue of a sting operation allegedly involving party leaders to the Ethics Committee of the…
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) The law on sedition is under review of the Law Commission and the home ministry has asked for a report on the issue as soon as possible, Minister of State…
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday witnessed acrimonious scenes during the zero hour over a sting operation in West Bengal as members from the Trinamool Congress and the Communist Party of…
Canberra, March 16 (IANS) Australian officials leading the search into missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on Wednesday expressed doubt that the debris found recently on the Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean is part of…
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Wednesday referred the matter related to a sting operation against certain Trinamool Congress leaders to the Ethics Committee for investigation. She made an announcement…
Pyongyang, March 16 (IANS) US student Otto Frederick Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years of hard labour for anti-North Korea crimes, the Supreme Court of North Korea said on Wednesday. Warmbier, 21, was a student…
Shimla, March 16 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh High Court has rapped the central and the state government authorities on the misuse of oxytocin and directed for measures to regulate the manufacture, import and distribution of…
Islamabad, March 16 (IANS) At least nine Pakistani fishermen were released by India as a goodwill gesture, Pakistani media reported. According to the Edhi Foundation, the Pakistani fishermen were handed over to Pakistan Rangers officials…
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday witnessed acrimonious scenes during the zero hour over a sting operation in West Bengal as members from the Trinamool Congress and the Communist Party of…
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday accused the BJP of shielding those “who raised anti-national slogans on the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus here. BJP is most anti-national of all….
Lucknow, March 16 (IANS) A student leader of a Meerut college has announced a reward of Rs.21,000 to anyone who cuts the tongue of AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi. Dushyant Tomar, a former president of the…
Quito, March 16 (IANS) A military aircraft crashed in the Ecuadorian province of Pastaza, killing all 22 people on board, officials said. The accident occurred on Tuesday when the soldiers were to conduct a parachuting…
Lucknow, March 16 (IANS) Rail traffic on the Delhi-Howrah line was restored on Wednesday after two wagons of a goods train that derailed in Uttar Pradesh were removed from the track , a railway official…
Quito, March 16 (IANS) A military aircraft crashed in the Ecuadorian province of Pastaza, killing all 22 soldiers on board, military sources said. Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa confirmed the crash on his official Twitter account…
Rome, March 15 (IANS/AKI) Italy’s Supreme Court of Cassation on Tuesday threw out an appeal by Marcello Dell’Utri, a former top aide to ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi, confirming his seven-year jail term for complicity with the…
Venice, March 16 (IANS/AKI) A teacher has been sacked from a technical high school in Italy for sending sexually explicit text messages to pupils, a media report said. The headmistress of the Musatti high school…