New York, Jan 7 (IANS) An Indian-origin man has been appointed as the top law enforcement officer of Bergen county in the US state of New Jersey, a media report said. Gurbir Grewal, 42, was…
Hyderabad, Jan 7 (IANS) The Andhra Pradesh government on Thursday said it will take strong action against anyone organising the traditional cock fight games during the Sankranti festival. The state government filed an affidavit in…
Singer Remo Fernandes at film DAVID music launch and live in concert at Hard Rock Cafe in Mumbai. (Photo: IANS) Panaji, Jan 7 (IANS) A Goa court on Thursday granted anticipatory bail to pop star…
New York, Jan 7 (IANS) In a significant ruling, a federal judge in San Francisco has declined to give a macaque monkey the right to his famous selfie in Indonesia in 2011. The People for…
Mumbai, Jan 7 (IANS) Filmmaker Sanjay Gupta on Thursday said there is no criminal charge against him or filmmaker Rakesh Roshan, with whom he has collaborated for the upcoming film “Kaabil”. According to some media…
Chicago, Jan 7 (AFP) A Texas state trooper involved in a controversial arrest of a black woman who was found dead in her jail cell was indicted on perjury charges, US prosecutors said. A dashcam…
Montreal, Jan 7 (AFP) TransCanada will sue the US government for USD 15 billion for blocking its controversial project for an oil pipeline linking Canada with the Gulf of Mexico, the firm has said. TransCanada…
Miami (US), Jan 7 (AFP) The chief justice of Alabama ruled that the state’s ban on same-sex marriages is legal and told probate judges there they had a “ministerial duty” to stop issuing licenses to…
Washington, Jan 6 (PTI) A US court today indicted a 30-year-old American national for allegedly using weapons of mass destruction against a US military base in Afghanistan. If convicted, Muhanad Mahmoud Al Farekh faces a…
Chennai, Jan 6 (IANS) Torn notebook recording deficiencies, lack of batch manufacturing records, use of unofficial notebooks, lack of audit trails on the operation of computer systems, product mix-ups due to manufacturing deficiencies are some…
Chennai, Jan 6 (IANS) The mother of one of the convicts in former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination on Wednesday petitioned Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa for her son’s release. Arputham Ammal submitted the…
Pathankot/Gurdaspur (Punjab), Jan 6 (IANS) NIA officials on Wednesday took Punjab Police officer Salwinder Singh with them to reconstruct the entire sequence of events of his ‘abduction’ by suspected Pakistani terrorists who later attacked the…
Mumbai: Actor Sanjay Dutt arrives at his Bandra residence after being released on 30 days furlough for his daughter`s nose surgery from Pune’s Yerwada Jail in Mumbai,on August 26, 2015. (Photo: IANS) Mumbai, Jan 6…
Mumbai, Jan 6 (IANS) A lawyer’s purported advice to Marathi litterateur Shripal Sabnis to go for “morning walks” has raked up a controversy with civil society interpreting it as a threat, as two prominent rationalists…
Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Jan 6 (IANS) Days after Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi said police would “shoot or hang” perpetrators of crimes against women on the spot if…
New Delhi, Jan 6 (IANS) The central government on Wednesday announced that it has collected Rs.2,428.4 crore worth of taxes and penalties after 644 declarations were made about possessing black money. According to the Ministry…
Patna, Jan 6 (IANS) A private company engaged in construction of Ganga Expressway in Patna has sought security following killing of two engineers in Darbhanga district last month, an official said on Wednesday. “We have…
Dhaka, Jan 6 (IANS) Bangladesh’s apex court on Wednesday upheld the death penalty awarded to Islamist party chief Motiur Rahman Nizami for war crimes during the country’s liberation struggle in 1971. A four-member bench of…
Beijing, Jan 6 (IANS) China’s first lawsuit on same-sex marriage rights has been accepted by a local court in Changsha, Hunan Province, marking a milestone for LGBT rights in the country, the media reported on…
New Delhi, Jan 6 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the Aam Aadmi Party government whether it can limit plying of even and odd-numbered vehicles in Delhi on alternative dates for “a week”…