Kolkata: BJP leader Siddharth Nath Singh shows videos from a sting operation conducted on Trinamool leaders during a press conference in Kolkata, on March 14, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Kolkata, March 16 (IANS) The Congress and…
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) A court here on Wednesday reserved for March 18 its order on a bail plea of JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, facing sedition charge. Delhi Police opposed the…
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) Describing BJP president Amit Shah and Samajwadi party leader Azam Khan as the most “dangerous politicians in the country,” historian and author Ramachandra Guha has cautioned that India needs to…
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitely (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) Government money by way of various subsidies and welfare schemes should reach the right hands, union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Wednesday….
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked Delhi’s civic bodies to pay sanitation workers their salaries for February before March 21. A division bench of Chief Justice G. Rohini and…
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) Janata Dal United (JD-U) president Sharad Yadav on Wednesday called for repealing the sedition law in the country, saying it may “divide the nation”. “Sedition law enforced in colonial era…
Actor Anupam Kher. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) Veteran Bollywood actor Anupam Kher on Wednesday said chanting “Bharat Mata Ki Jai” should be the “only definition” of nationalism for those living in…
Pyongyang, March 16 (IANS) US student Otto Frederick Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years of hard labour for anti-North Korea crimes, the Supreme Court of North Korea said on Wednesday. Warmbier, 21, was a student…
Shimla, March 16 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh High Court has rapped the central and the state government authorities on the misuse of oxytocin and directed for measures to regulate the manufacture, import and distribution of…
Rome, March 15 (IANS/AKI) Italy’s Supreme Court of Cassation on Tuesday threw out an appeal by Marcello Dell’Utri, a former top aide to ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi, confirming his seven-year jail term for complicity with the…
(Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked BJP leader Subramanian Swamy to implead other private airlines who would be affected in the likelihood of its cancelling the agreement between…
Patidar Anamat Sanghursh Samiti (PASS) leader Hardik Patel. (File Photo: IANS) Ahmedabad, March 15 (IANS) Quota agitation spearhead Hardik Patel was on Tuesday denied bail by the court of principal district and sessions judge of…
New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Directorate General of Civil Aviation to tell it if the scheduled private airlines were strictly adhering to policy of operating 10 percent of…
Islamabad, March 15 (IANS) Pakistan’s army chief General Raheel Sharif on Tuesday confirmed the death sentence for another 13 “hardcore terrorists” who were involved in heinous offences related to terrorism. The convicts, who belonged to…
New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that it will examine the plea for setting up of the National Court of Appeal with regional benches at Chennai, Mumbai and Kolkata to…
Mumbai, March 15 (IANS) A court on Tuesday sent former Maharashtra deputy chief minister Chhagan Bhujbal, who was arrested on corruption charges, to two days custody of the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The ED had interrogated…
(Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) The Supreme Court will hear, on April 29, a plea seeking quashing of the appointment of Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) K.V. Chowdary and Vigilance Commissioner (VC) T.M. Bhasin…
New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) The requirement to print pictorial health warnings on 50 percent of the two sides of the packs of tobacco products is “excessive” and will adversely impact tobacco farming and industry,…
New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) A court here on Tuesday extended, till March 29, the judicial custody of JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, facing sedition charges for allegedly raising “anti-India” slogans, court sources…
New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) A court here on Tuesday extended, till March 29, the judicial custody of JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, facing sedition charges for allegedly raising “anti-India” slogans, court sources…