New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) The enrolment of 306 Indian students in a US university — created as part of the US Homeland Security Investigation’s (HSI) enforcement action — has been terminated on charges of…
New York, May 4 (IANS) Pakistani authorities used draconian laws and excessive force to prevent tenant farmers in Punjab from protesting for land rights, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday. Farmers in Okara district had…
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday said more judges were being appointed across the country. The minister said this in the Rajya Sabha. He said the government was serious on…
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) The central government on Wednesday sought a day’s time to seriously consider the Supreme Court’s suggestion to go for a floor test in the Uttarakhand assembly. The apex court bench…
Islamabad, May 4 (IANS) A Pakistani court has granted bail to the five accused who were arrested on blasphemy charges on the complaint of a Sikh youth for publicly disgracing his turban. Mahinder Pall Singh…
Canberra, May 4 (IANS) A boat carrying asylum seekers was intercepted off the coast of Australia’s remote Cocos Islands territory, sources said on Wednesday. The vessel was spotted by a ferry passing by the remote…
Brasilia, May 4 (IANS) The suspension of WhatsApp in Brazil was scrapped, hours after an appellate court upheld a 72-hour nationwide shutdown of the messaging service. Sergipe State Court magistrate Ricardo Mucio Santana de Abreu…
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) Lok Sabha has passed the much talked about Compensatory Afforestation Fund bill, 2015 that seeks to establish setting up of a National Compensatory Afforestation Fund and also a State Compensatory…
New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Medical Council of India to respond to a batch of applications by various state governments and associations of private medical colleges seeking to…
Gurgaon: Diesel cab owners block traffic on NH8 to protest against Supreme Court ban on diesel vehicles in Gurgaon on May 2, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) Commuters in Delhi continued to…
New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission on Tuesday issued a notice to the Kerala government over the alleged rape and murder of a Dalit law student. Taking suo motu cognizance of…
New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) The Delhi government on Tuesday asked for suggestions from taxi unions before presenting its detailed phase-out plan for diesel cabs before the Supreme Court on Thursday. “We called a meeting…
(Photo: IANS) New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) The Supreme Court said on Tuesday the Indian cricket board’s constitution is unworthy of providing transparency, objectivity and accountability, and added the values can only be attained by…
Islamabad, May 3 (IANS) Pakistan’s Army Chief General Raheel Sharif confirmed the death sentence on Tuesday to 11 “hardcore terrorists” who were handed the capital punishment by military courts for committing heinous offences relating to…
Rome, May 3 (IANS/AKI) One of two Italian marines facing trial for the killing of two Indian fishermen will return home “in a few weeks”, Italian Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti said on Tuesday. Salvatore Girone…
Kolkata, May 3 (IANS) The Election Commission has arranged wheelchairs in each of the 4,000 ‘polling premises’, or the combined area of the polling station and the immediate vicinity, in West Bengal’s East Midnapore district…
Gurgaon: Diesel cab owners block traffic on NH8 to protest against Supreme Court ban on diesel vehicles in Gurgaon on May 2, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) The Delhi government on Tuesday…
Ahmedabad, May 3 (IANS) A special CBI court on Tuesday allowed Gujarat Police’s in-charge Director General of Police P.P. Pandey and IPS officer G.L. Singhal, both accused in the Ishrat Jahan case, to travel abroad….
Ahmedabad, May 3 (IANS) Jailed Patidar reservation spearhead Hardik Patel on Tuesday gave an undertaking to the Gujarat High Court that if granted bail he would not indulge in any activity to incite violence. The…
Washington, May 3 (IANS) Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson has lost its second legal battle in a row over its talcum powder which allegedly causes cancer. The company must now pay $55 million to a…