(160513) — BRASILIA, May 13, 2016 (Xinhua) — Brazil’s suspended President Dilma Rousseff (C) makes a statement in the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, on May 12, 2016. The Brazilian Senate Thursday voted to continue…
WASHINGTON D.C., U.S. President Barack Obama. (Xinhua/Yin Bogu/IANS) Washington, May 26 (IANS) Texas and 10 other states will sue the Obama administration over a directive that forces states to adjust their policy to allow transgender…
Geneva, May 26 (IANS) Muslim school students in the Swiss canton of Basel cannot refuse to shake hands with their female teachers on religious grounds, otherwise their parents will face fines, local authorities have ruled….
Tehran, May 26 (IANS/AKI) As many as 17 prisoners were executed in Iran in the past two days for crimes including murder, rape and drugs trafficking, the Iran Human Rights (IHR) website reported on Wednesday….
New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday launches 20 Nirbhaya buses of Rajasthan State Transport Corporation with multiple safety measures to better protect women passengers. “Certain unfortunate…
New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) The draft rules of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015, proposing that children need to be reformed and reintegrated into society, were released on Wednesday by Women and Child Development Minister…
Ahmedabad, May 25 (IANS) An Ahmedabad special trial court is expected to pronounce its verdict on June 2 in the Gulberg Society attack case of 2002 Gujarat riots in which 69 people, including former Congress…
New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) Union Law Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda did not find anything wrong in veteran film star Amitabh Bachchan, whose name figures in the Panama Papers, being present during the celebrations on…
New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) Union Law Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda on Wednesday said there was no scientific data available to calculate the strength of judges in proportion to the population, indicating that it could…
New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) The central government has informed the Delhi high court that Quick Response Teams, additional sign boards and private security guards have been put in place to ensure safety of visitors…
New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) A Gujarat based student on Wednesday filed a caveat in the Supreme Court seeking to be heard in the event of any challenge to the ordinance exempting states from the…
New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) Even as the Narendra Modi government completes two years at the Centre, the opposition parties are mincing no words in criticising its performance. On Wednesday, the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) targeted…
New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) A court here on Wednesday set June 6 for delivering its verdict in the 2014 Danish woman’s gang rape case. Additional Sessions Judge Ramesh Kumar reserved the order after defence…
Shimla, May 25 (IANS) It’s startling but true! All 180 candidates who appeared for the clerical examination conducted by the Himachal Pradesh High Court for recruitment in subordinate courts have flunked, it was announced on…
New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday declined to admit a petition challenging the government decision to confer Padma Vibhushan on late industrialist Dhirubhai Ambani. A division bench of Chief Justice…
New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) Union Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Wednesday said she has formed no opinion on triple talaq as yet and would rather wait for consensus to emerge on…
Nagpur (Maharashtra), May 25 (IANS) Indian Mujahiddeen activist Mirza Himayat Baig, sentenced to life imprisonment for possessing explosives and forged documents, on Wednesday allegedly attacked murder convict Rajesh Daware, who is sentenced to death, in…
Jakarta, May 25 (IANS) International non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday that child labour is used in tobacco plantations in Indonesia, whose harvest supplies local and foreign tobacco companies. Children, some of…
Hyderabad, May 25 (IANS) A court hrere on Wednesday directed the GMR airport, Shamshabad, to furnish the latest address of Kingfisher chairman Vijay Mallya by June 6 to enable it issue him summons in a…
By Nishant Arora New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) When Facebook-owned mobile messaging service WhatsApp announced to turn on end-to-end encryption for its over one billion monthly active users last month, CEO Mark Zuckerberg hailed this…