Bhubaneswar, July 13 (IANS) A panel probing Odisha’s chit fund scam has identified more than one lakh small depositors who lost their money to chit fund companies in the state. The Justice M.M. Das Commission…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday was told that just as the statue of Bamiyan Buddha was destroyed by the Afghan Taliban, similarly the Hindu Taliban razed the Babri Masjid in…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) India on Friday rubbished as “baseless” the UN report written from “comfort zones” on alleged rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir. Reacting to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres backing the call…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) A day after the Delhi government restored its panel of advocates in the Delhi High Court and Supreme Court, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia alleged that IAS officers were refusing…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Friday asked Delhi Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash to appear before the Delhi Assembly committee. Justice Vibhu Bakhru warned the Chief Secretary and two other bureaucrats…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) A special court on Friday ordered framing of an additional charge of abetment of bribery against industrialist and senior Congress leader Naveen Jindal and others in a coal block allocation…
Islamabad, July 13 (IANS) Pakistan’s Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Friday confirmed the death sentence of another 12 “hardcore terrorists”, involved in heinous offences related to attacking the armed forces, law enforcement personnel,…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday disposed of BJP leader Subramanian Swamy’s plea seeking a court monitored SIT probe into the death of Sunanda Pushkar, observing that a charge-sheet has already…
By Subhash K. Jha Mumbai, July 13 (IANS) Film celebrities like Onir, Celina Jaitly, Nandita Das and Apurva Asrani want the “archaic” Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code to be repealed, and the LGBT…
Jaipur, July 13 (IANS) Police have launched a hunt for 10 village heads in Rajasthan who ostracized a minor and made her stay away from her home reportedly for breaking a bird’s eggs in Bundi…
Thiruvalla (Kerala) July 13 (IANS) One of the four accused Kerala priests, Father Johnson V. Mathew, named in a sexual abuse case of a parishioner, was arrested from a place near here, said police on…
By Arul Louis United Nations, July 13 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has backed Human Rights High Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein’s call for an international investigation into human rights situation in Jammu and Kashmir…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday disposed of BJP leader Subramanian Swamy’s plea seeking a court monitored SIT probe into the death of Sunanda Pushkar, observing that a charge-sheet has already…
London, July 13 (IANS) Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz, both sentenced to long jail terms in Avenfield properties corruption case, are due to return home from London on Friday…
Canberra, July 13 (IANS) Australia’s migrants intake has hit the lowest level in 11 years, a report revealed on Friday. According to the Department of Home Affairs report, the number of people allowed into Australia…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) With the new weapon of choice to intimidate publishers being the legal injunction, industry stakeholders contend that they have escaped the heavy hand of direct political intimidation…
London, July 13 (IANS) Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz were on their way on Friday from London to Pakistan, where they face immediate arrest in the Avenfield properties case….
By Devdutt Pattanaik The key to understanding Karmic faiths is to look at stories, for it is through stories that the common folk understood their faith. In Hinduism, we find many stories where God transforms…
Washington, July 13 (IANS) Fifty-eight immigrant children under the age of five have been reunited with their parents after being separated at the US border, officials said in a filing. The filing on Thursday night…
San Francisco, July 13 (IANS) The number of women employees at Facebook has increased five times over five years and there has been a modest growth in the proportion of Asian, Black and Hispanic employees…