Strasbourg (France), April 13 (IANS) The European Court of Human Rights has strongly criticised Russia for failing to take action to prevent the 2004 Beslan school siege in which 330 people died in a Chechen…
New York, April 13 (IANS) Sheila Abdus-Salaam, the first-ever female Muslim judge in US history and the first African-American woman to serve on New Yorks highest court, was found dead in the Hudson River, police…
Dhaka, April 13 (IANS) The High Court on Thursday stayed the trial against opposition leader and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia in four separate vandalism and arson cases. The court also issued four separate rulings asking…
New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Haji Ali Dargah Trust to remove all encroachment around the shrine in Mumbai by May 8. Accepting the trust’s offer to undertake removal…
New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) The Art of Living (AoL) on Thursday said an expert committee report that quantifies the damage to Yamuna’s floodplains and ecology due to an AoL event is “unscientific and biased”….
New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) One of the accused in the Leave Travel Concession (LTC) fraud case against Rajya Sabha member Anil Kumar Sahani moved an application on Thursday in a court here, seeking to…
Washington, April 13 (IANS) A man dragged off an “overbooked” United Airlines flight in an incident which shocked the world has launched legal action against the passenger carrier. Dr David Dao, 69, refused to give…
Bhubaneswar, April 13 (IANS) In a bid to avoid closure of liquor shops in the state in the wake of a Supreme Court order, the Odisha government has renamed the state highways passing through cities…
Kuala Lumpur, April 13 (IANS) Two women accused in the murder of Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, were made scapegoats, a Malaysian advocate said on Thursday Advocate Gooi Soon Seng,…
New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) There is a need to make Aadhaar ecosystem more cyber secure and address its privacy and data protection nuances, cyber experts said on Thursday. “There is a need for addressing…
New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the Centre and the Election Commission on a plea by the BSP that EVMs should be used in polls along with the…
New York, April 13 (IANS) Even as uncertainty continues to mount over H-1B visa regulations promised by US President Donald Trump, a new study has found that foreign computer scientists granted such visas have helped…
New York, April 13 (IANS) Sheila Abdus-Salaam, an associate judge on New York States highest court and the first Muslim judge in the US, was found dead in the Hudson River, city authorities said. Officers…
Moscow, April 13 (IANS) Russia and the US on Wednesday agreed to keep on fighting international terrorism and continue discussions on Syrian conflict settlement, despite turbulent bilateral relations and a string of pending disputes between…
United Nations, April 13 (IANS) Russia on Wednesday vetoed a UN resolution that would have required Bashar al-Assad’s government to co-operate with international inquiries into last week’s chemical attack in Syria. It was the eighth…
Moscow, April 13 (IANS) Russia’s Foreign Minister said on Wednesday that both Russia and the United States supported an investigation into the chemical weapons attack in northern Syria. Sergey Lavrov said during a joint press…
New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) Most states of the country are not “serious” about implementing the act meant to protect street vendors’ rights and top defaulters include Gujarat and Nagaland, a leading think-tank said in…
Rome, April 12 (IANS/AKI) Italy’s lower house of parliament on Wednesday gave final approval to a decree to accelerate asylum procedures in Italy and the expulsion of migrants whose applications are rejected. Members of parliament…
Rome, April 12 (IANS/AKI) Police in southern Italy on Wednesday said they arrested five people and smashed an alleged Pakistani-Afghan led cell that aided illegal immigrants by pretending to give them shelter. Police in the…
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the implementation of the Supreme Court’s judgement on the Target Plus Scheme (TPS) for exporters under the Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) during 2004-09, said…