Ranchi, Aug 16 (IANS) The Jharkhand Congress on Wednesday urged Governor Draupadi Murmu not to give her consent to the Anti-Conversion Bill and the amendment to the Land Acquisition Act 2013. “A party delegation met…
Chennai, Aug 16 (IANS) The Madras High Court on Wednesday reserved its order for August 23 on the maintainability of a petition of Karti Chidambaram, son of senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram, against a CBI…
New Delhi, Aug 16 (IANS) The Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) on Wednesday pulled up the BCCI by demanding the ouster of acting President C.K. Khanna, acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary and treasurer Anirudh Chaudhary…
New Delhi, Aug 16 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday appointed a panel comprising two of its former judges to examine the justification for closing 241 anti-Sikh riot cases probed by the Special Investigation Team….
Mumbai, Aug 16 (IANS) In a blow to the Maharashtra government, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday restrained the state from granting permission to hold bullock cart races till the authorities frame rules governing the…
New Delhi, Aug 16 (IANS) A court here on Wednesday issued production warrant against former media baron Indrani Mukerjea in a money laundering case allegedly involving Karti Chidambaram, son of former Union Minister P. Chidambaram….
New Delhi, Aug 16 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered an NIA probe supervised by retired apex court Justice R.V. Raveendran into a case of conversion of young Hindu woman from Kerala to Islam…
Nairobi, Aug 16 (IANS) The UN human rights chief has called on Kenyan leaders to act responsibly by calming the volatile political climate peacefully amid reports of police brutality that has led to deaths and…
Lucknow, Aug 16 (IANS) Social activist Nutan Thakur on Wednesday filed a PIL in the Allahabad High Court with regard to the death of over 60 children at a Gorakhpur hospital last week, seeking a…
Chandigarh, Aug 16 (IANS) The authorities in Punjab and Haryana on Wednesday asked the police in both states to be on alert ahead of a special CBI court’s verdict in an alleged rape of a…
Washington, Aug 16 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has again “blamed both sides” for the deadly violence at a white supremacist rally over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, that resulted in the death of a…
By Saket Suman Lunglei (Mizoram), Aug 16 (IANS) Even two months after flash floods caused by heavy rainfall wreaked havoc in many villages at Tlabung here in this district, the local communities are struggling to…
Washington, Aug 16 (IANS) The number of manufacturing council members who have quit following US President Donald Trump’s remarks about white supremacists has risen to six after a key American labour leader said he was…
Aurangabad (Maharashtra), Aug 16 (IANS) A city lawyer has filed a plea questioning the contents of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech, claiming it has violated constitutional provisions. In her complaint addressed to Chief…
New York, Aug 16 (IANS) Former US President Barack Obama’s tweet in response to the deadly violence in the Charlottesville, Virginia rally garnered 2.8 million ‘likes,’ making it the most-approved post in the Twitter’s history….
New Delhi, Aug 16 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a National Investigation Agency (NIA) probe into the conversion and marriage of a Hindu girl in Kerala in 2016. Justice R.V. Ravindran, a retired…
By Sahana Ghosh Kolkata, Aug 16 (IANS) Twenty-four-year-old Jiya was once forced to dance at gunpoint. Now the plucky transwoman from West Bengal is blazing a trail of success as a trainee in an operation…
By Arul Louis New York, Aug 16 (IANS) Some aspects of marriage laws for Hindus in Bangladesh mirror those for Muslims in India, according to a US government report. The International Religious Freedom Report for…
By Arul Louis New York, Aug 16 (IANS) A US government report on religious freedom lists attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh, Pakistan and elsewhere as well as restrictions on Sikhs in France and Denmark. The…
Cape Town, Aug 16 (IANS) South Africa’s Parliament refused to meet a delegation from the Israeli Knesset (parliament) in protest against Israel’s settlement building in the occupied Palestinian territories. This followed a decision of the…