Kollam (Kerala), April 10 (IANS) The Kerala government on Sunday ordered a judicial probe into a temple fire tragedy here and announced Rs.10 lakh compensation to families of each of the dead. Chief Minister Oommen…
By Anurag Dey Kolkata, April 10 (IANS) Once unknown beyond their immediate circles of family, friends and colleagues, they became crusaders due to difficulties and sorrow they experienced at a personal level. They all are…
Bhind (Madhya Pradesh), April 10 (IANS) The death of a young man here in police custody, allegedly because he was tortured, triggered public outcry on Sunday and caused the authorities to order a judicial inquiry….
By Firoz Bakht Ahmed It’s a common trend that where social, political and religious systems fail, the judiciary steps in – as in the case of the entry of women to the Shani Shingnapur temple….
NAY PYI TAW, March 11, 2016 (Xinhua) — Leader of Myanmar National League for Democracy (NLD) Aung San Suu Kyi arrives to attend a session of the House of Representatives (Lower House) in Nay Pyi…
Panaji, April 10 (IANS) Tourists planning to arrive in Goa on Monday are likely to be stranded at arrival points, with over 15,000 tourist taxis and auto rickshaws threatening to go off roads. The North…
Brussels, April 10 (IANS) Paris attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini who was arrested on Friday in Brussels has confessed to investigators that he is “the man in the hat” caught in the Brussels airport security cameras…
Hyderabad, April 9 (IANS) Legal services authorities across the country disposed of 2.2 crore cases including 1.61 crore cases in pre-litigation stage in the last one year, Chief Justice of India Justice T.S. Thakur said…
New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) A court here on Saturday, sent to one day police custody, the father of a minor who killed a 33-year-old business consultant after hitting him with his speeding Mercedes car…
Dhaka, April 9 (IANS) Slain online Bangladeshi activist Nazimuddin Samad went into hiding at for some days after getting death threats for writing against religious extremism. His friends said Nazim, 27, went into hiding at…
Beijing, April 9 (IANS) The Economist and Time have joined the list of foreign news websites including The New York Times, The Independent and the BBC currently blocked in mainland China. The sites appear to…
Athens, April 9 (IANS) Five people drowned on Saturday as a boat carrying migrants and refugees from Turkey capsized off a Greek island. The boat capsized off the northeast coast of the island of Samos,…
London, April 9 (IANS) England’s children’s commissioner has asked the French government to help children who are alone in Calais’s refugee camp to reach relatives in Britain. Anne Longfield has written to French authorities to…
Dhaka, April 9 (IANS) Bangladesh police on Saturday said they are yet to find any blogs written by murdered online activist Nazimuddin Samad, but have found a diary he maintained since 2009. An Al Qaeda…
Hyderabad, April 9 (IANS) Chief Justice of India Justice T.S. Thakur said on Saturday the process of appointing judges must go on while improving the system, as the delay in appointments will deprive people of…
Ahmednagar: Women worship at Shani Shingnapur temple in Ahmednagar of Maharashtra on April 8, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Ahmednagar (Maharashtra), April 9 (IANS) A day after the Shri Shaneshwar Devasthan (Shani Shingnapur Temple) Trust’s historic vote…
By Sarwar Kashani New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) India, despite its strategic interests, has not been forthcoming in support to the Balochistan freedom movement, says a prominent author-activist from the restive western Pakistani province, rebutting…
London, April 9 (IANS) Prosecutors in El Salvador have raided the offices of Mossack Fonseca, the Panamian law firm at the centre of the global data leak for allegedly facilitating people to open offices in…
New Delhi: Union Minister of State for Science and Technology and Earth Science, YS Chowdary addresses at the inauguration of the India Electronics Expo – 2016, organised by the Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion…
New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) A number of academicians, writers, students and activists on Friday vowed at the Pratirodh forum here to keep resistance alive till there was complete freedom to think and speak freely….