Ahmedabad, March 4 (IANS) Senior Gujarat minister Vasuben Trivedi on Friday ruled out conceding the Patel comunity’s demands for reservation in government jobs and educational institutions in the state. Trivedi, considered Chief Minister Anandiben Patel’s…
Hyderabad, March 4 (IANS) The son of a Andhra Pradesh minister has been embroiled in a controversy after he was accused of harassing a woman here. A woman on Friday lodged a complaint with Banjara…
Jakarta, March 4 (IANS) Dozen of people were injured as a ferry sank in Indonesia’s Bali strait on Friday. At least 48 people were rescued while search for the remaining passengers continued, Xinhua quoted spokesman…
Brasilia, March 4 (IANS) Brazilian police on Friday searched the home of former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a probe into a corruption scheme, the media reported. Federal police officer Jose Cyrispiniano said…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a notice to the Madhya Pradesh government over alleged police insensitivity and medical negligence towards a victim of a road accident in…
Harare, March 4 (IANS) At least 30 people were killed and 36 injured in a collision between two buses on Harare-Bulawayo Highway in Zimbabwe, the media reported on Friday. One bus suffered a tyre-burst and…
Gurgaon, March 4 (IANS) At about 1.15 a.m. on Friday, Shipra Malik, who went missing on Monday from her home in Noida, knocked on the door of a villager in Haryana and told him she…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed a plea filed by a former woman research analyst who has accused environmentalist R.K. Pachauri of sexual harassment to cancel the bail granted…
Kuala Lumpur, March 4 (IANS) More next-of-kin of those on board the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 are filing suits as the deadline for legal action against the carrier approaches. The Montreal Convention stipulates that…
Islamabad, March 4 (IANS) A 50-year-old Pakistani man committed suicide after he bet a month’s salary on a cricket match between Pakistan and Bangladesh which his country lost. Muhammad Shafiq, a junior clerk in the…
Hyderabad, March 3 (IANS) An Australian woman was found dead under suspicious circumstances on Thursday, police said. The body of Margret Linda, 53 was lying on a bed in the flat in Toli Chowki area…
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Friday will pass an order on a plea filed by a former woman research analyst who has accused environmentalist R.K. Pachauri of sexual harassment to…
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) A court here will consider on Friday a charge sheet filed by Delhi Police against five accused in a case of alleged supply of sensitive documents to Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence,…
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) The Delhi government on Thursday suspended a senior education department official on the charge of corruption and also registered a police complaint against him, an official statement said. “On the…
JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar. (File Photo: IANS) By Archana Rao and Rajnish Singh New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested for sedition 20 days ago, was released from the Tihar…
Bhubaneswar, March 3 (IANS) The CBI has interrogated a senior police officer of Odisha in connection with Seashore chit fund scam in which lakhs of investors were allegedly duped of money totalling about Rs.1,500 crore,…
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) “No direct link” has been found between Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar and anti-India sloganeering on the campus on February 9, a magisterial report said. The…
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar reached the JNU here on Thursday evening, 20 days after he was arrested there on charges of sedition. Kanhaiya Kumar entered the sprawling Jawaharlal Nehru…
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said the Centre has to decide on the release of those convicted in the Rajiv Gandhi…
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday denied in the Rajya Sabha that his ministerial colleague Ram Shankar Katheria made an inflammatory speech in Agra in Uttar Pradesh, and stressed…