Bomb hoax at Delhi High Court
New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) Police searched the Delhi High Court complex on Thursday after an anonymous caller warned a bomb will explode in the premises. It turned out to be a hoax, police said….
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Irom Sharmila gets married in Kodaikanal
Chennai, Aug 17 (IANS) Civil rights activist Irom Chanu Sharmila on Thursday married her lover Desmond Coutinho in Kodaikanal in Tamil Nadu. The low-key ceremony was held in the sub-registrar’s office in the hill station…
Facebook shuts down chat platform used to ‘harass’ employees
San Francisco, Aug 17 (IANS) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shut down an anonymous online chat platform in late 2016 after it was increasingly used to talk about the US presidential candidates and ‘harass’ the company’s…
Meghalaya HC issues notice over parliamentary secretaries
Shillong, Aug 17 (IANS) The Meghalaya High Court has issued a notice to the state government for a final hearing on the matter of the posts of parliamentary secretaries. A division bench of Chief Justice…
Spain rescues 600 migrants in one day
Madrid, Aug 17 (IANS) The Spanish Coast Guard has said it rescued 600 migrants crossing from Morocco in a 24-hour period amid a spike in the number of arrivals, the media reported. The rescued migrants…
Gujarat Police officers Amin and Barot to quit
New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) Gujarat Police officers N.K. Amin and Tarun Barot – both facing criminal cases involving alleged fake encounters – on Thursday informed the Supreme Court that they will quit the state…
Venezuela orders arrest of ex-attorney general’s husband
Caracas, Aug 17 (IANS) The Venezuelan Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of Congressman German Ferrer, the husband of former Attorney General Luisa Ortega. The Public Ministry accuses Ferrer of being part of an extortion…
Australian far-right leader wears burqa to Senate
Canberra, Aug 17 (IANS) Australian far-right leader Pauline Hanson on Thursday wore a burqa to the Senate in behalf of her One Nation party’s efforts to ban the garment in the country, the media reported….
Spanish daily’s website unblocked in China
Beijing, Aug 17 (IANS) The website of Spanish daily El Pais, which was blocked in China for three and a half years, is again accessible, authorities said on Thursday. The newspaper’s website could not be…
Twitter suspends neo-Nazi news website account
Los Angeles, Aug 17 (IANS) Twitter has suspended the account of The Daily Stormer, an American neo-Nazi and white supremacist news and commentary website. The San Francisco-based social networking giant joined a list of other…
Nadella, Cook, Zuckerberg slam Charlottesville violence
San Francisco, Aug 17 (IANS) Breaking their silence over the violence at a white supremacist rally in the US, Microsoft’s Indian-born CEO Satya Nadella, Apple’s Tim Cook and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg have condemned the incident…
Israel cancels Al Jazeera reporter’s press credentials
Jerusalem, Aug 17 (IANS) Israeli authorities have cancelled the press credentials of an Al Jazeera reporter, after he said his journalism was part of the Palestinian “resistance”. Communications Minister Ayoub Kara approved the move on…
Pakistan begins documentation of unregistered Afghans: Officials
Islamabad, Aug 17 (IANS) Pakistan started documentation of around 1 million unregistered Afghan refugees, Pakistani and Afghan officials said. Pakistani officials on Wednesday said that documentation of the un-registered Afghans will enable the authorities to…
Dera chief case: Punjab, Haryana seek central forces
New Delhi/Chandigarh, Aug 16 (IANS) With a CBI court likely to pronounce soon the verdict in a rape case against Dera Sacha Sauda sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, police in Punjab and Haryana were…
Done no wrong in actress kidnapping case, says Kerala MLA
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 16 (IANS) Kerala legislator P.C. George on Wednesday said he had done or said nothing wrong in the case of a kidnapped popular Malayalam actress and accused Kerala Women’s Commission (KWC) chief of…
HC questions AAI on allowing Amit Shah’s airport meeting
Panaji, Aug 16 (IANS) The Panaji bench of the Bombay High Court on Wednesday questioned the Airports Authority of India over its decision to allow a public meeting of BJP president Amit Shah on the…
HC quashes DGCA notification on excess baggage fee
New Delhi, Aug 16 (IANS) Delhi High Court on Wednesday quashed a circular issued by the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) by which Rs 100 per kg fee was fixed for excess checked-in baggage…
SC seeks details of flat buyers of Unitech’s Gurugram project
New Delhi, Aug 16 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed Delhi Police to furnish details of the number of flat buyers of Unitech’s project in Gurugram who had approached it for registering cases and…
Cine employees on strike, shoots go on amid tight security
Mumbai, Aug 16 (IANS) An indefinite strike by cine employees has affected the smooth functioning of the film and television industries. However, several producers and actors continued to shoot amid tight police security. The strike…
Philippines police kill 32 drug suspects in raids
Manila, Aug 16 (IANS) At least 32 suspected drug dealers were killed in shootouts across one province in the Philippines in a bloody 24 hours for the country’s war on drugs, the police said. Police…