New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) A court here on Saturday issued summons to environmentalist R.K. Pachauri, accused of sexually harassing a colleague, after taking cognisance of a charge-sheet against him and holding there is enough…
Manila, May 14 (IANS) LGBT activists on Saturday gathered in Philippines’ Quezon city for a memorial to raise awareness of the HIV virus spreading in the country. They gathered at the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial,…
New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) A court here on Saturday took cognisance of a charge-sheet filed against environmentalist R.K. Pachauri, accused of sexually harassing a colleague, and said there is enough material to proceed against…
New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) A court here on Saturday took cognisance of a charge-sheet filed against environmentalist R.K. Pachauri, accused of sexually harassing a colleague in The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). Metropolitan Magistrate…
Jerusalem, May 14 (IANS/EFE) Hundreds of Israeli women took part here on Friday in a SlutWalk procession, protesting rape and sexism and advocating for gender equality. Though women have often gone topless at other SlutWalk…
Actor Salman Khan. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court will hear, after its summer break, the Maharashtra government’s plea challenging the December 2015 Bombay High Court verdict acquitting Bollywood star…
The Supreme Court of India (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday asked the central government to ensure that the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) was implemented across…
Geneva, May 13 (IANS/AKI) Around 1,000 migrants and refugees including from Syria and Iraq were due to arrive in Italy on Friday after being rescued in the southern Mediterranean, the UN said. The people of…
Geneva, May 13 (IANS) A total of 188,075 refugees and migrants reached Europe by sea in the first five months of 2016 — more than twice the 91,860 arrivals in the same period in 2015,…
New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the constitutional validity of India’s criminal defamation law that was contested by Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and BJP…
Bhubaneswar, May 13 (IANS) The Odisha assembly on Friday witnessed an unusual scene when opposition MLAs belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Tribes fell at Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s feet and begged for the implementation…
New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Friday granted interim bail, till July 31, to Jharkhand Ispat Pvt. Ltd. directors R.S. Rungta and R.C. Rungta, who had been convicted and sentenced to…
New York, May 13 (IANS) Nepals leading political parties should not bargain away justice for victims of serious human rights abuses as part of an agreement to form a new coalition government, the International Commission…
Washington, May 13 (IANS) The Obama administration has told schools to allow transgender students to use the toilets that match their chosen gender identity. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said it would protect transgender students from…
New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) The CBI on Friday told a special court hearing coal block allocation case allegedly involving former parliamentarian Naveen Jindal and others, that it wants to record the statement of New…
Copenhagen, May 13 (IANS) Denmark announced it will remove “transgender” from the country’s official list of mental illnesses, saying it has run out of patience waiting for the World Health Organization to make the change….
New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Friday stayed all disciplinary action, including rustication orders, against JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya and others, on the condition that…
Mumbai, May 13 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday gave a clean chit to Malegaon blast key accused Sadhvi Pragnya Singh Thakur and five others and dropped terror charges against them thus paving…
Kolkata, May 13 (IANS) Trinamool Congress leader Tapas Mallik, prime accused in the lynching of a 24-year-old student in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, was arrested and remanded to custody on Friday, police said….
Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur. (File Photo: IANS) Mumbai, May 13 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday gave a clean chit and removed Sadhvi Pragnya Singh Thakur and five others from the list of…