New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) Parliament on Tuesday passed the juvenile justice bill, a day after members cutting across party lines agreed that the important legislation should be taken up immediately. However, members of Left parties…
Washington, Dec 22 (IANS) A war of words between Republican and Democratic presidential frontrunners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton has intensified over her charge that he has become a recruiting tool for ISIS. Trump demanded…
New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea opposing the release of a juvenile convict in the December 16 gang-rape case, saying he cannot be kept in a juvenile home…
New Delhi: Union Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs, and Information and Broadcasting Arun Jaitley addresses during the Sardar Patel Memorial Lecture – 2015 organised by All India Radio in New Delhi, on Oct 26, 2015….
Washington, Dec 20 (IANS) As Democratic presidential contenders sparred at their last debate of the year, frontrunner Hillary Clinton suggested that her Republican rival Donald Trump’s rhetoric against Muslims was becoming a potent and powerful…
Beijing, Dec 20 (IANS) The finale of the 2015 Miss World contest came to a conclusion with Miss Spain Mireia Lalaguna Royo claiming the crown in Sanya, a coastal resort city in south China’s Hainan…
New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday appeared before a trial court which granted them bail in the National Herald case. They appeared before Metropolitan Magistrate…
Washington, Dec 19 (IANS) US President Barack Obama intensified his criticism of Republicans for refusing to admit global warming is occurring. “Keep in mind that right now, the American Republican Party is the only major…
Film: “Bajirao Mastani” Language: Hindi Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali Cast: Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, Priyanka Chopra, Tanvi Azmi, Mahesh Manjrekar and Milind Soman Rating: **** Reviewer: Troy Ribeiro Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s “Bajirao Mastani”, based on the…
Washington, Dec 17 (PTI) A leading American foreign policy journal today alleged that India is building a top-secret nuclear city to produce thermos nuclear weapons which would upgrade the country as a nuclear power and unsettle its two major…
New York, Dec 17 (IANS) Pope Francis’ “first selfie” that made rounds of social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram early this week is actually a fake, a media report has said. “The photo, in…
Washington, Dec 17 (IANS) In a historic move, America’s central bank, the US Federal Reserve, for the first time in nearly a decade raised its key interest rate from a range of 0 percent to…
Washington, Dec 16 (IANS) Republican presidential candidates joined issue with frontrunner Donald Trump’s call to ban Muslims from coming to the US with Senator Ted Cruz citing the example of India to say all Muslims…
All Los Angeles Unified School District schools were closed Tuesday morning due to a bomb threat, LAUSD Superintendent Ramon Cortines announced at a Tuesday morning news conference. Cortines said that the threat was made to…
New Delhi: Security beefed-up outside Delhi Secretariat in the wake of CBI raids on 14 locations in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, including the office of the secretary to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwall; on Dec…
Washington, Dec 15 (IANS) US President Barack Obama on Monday said the fight against extremist group Islamic State “continues to be difficult”. “As I said before, ISIL (another acronym for IS) is dug in, including…
Canberra, Dec 14 (IANS) Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Monday overturned a decision by his predecessor to ban government investment in wind power. Earlier this year, the former prime minister announced a controversial ban…
Paris, Dec 13 (IANS) The historic Paris agreement on climate change was on Saturday adopted without any objection by the 196 parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) during the 21st…
New Delhi, Dec 12 (IANS) India on Saturday signed landmark agreements on civil nuclear energy and bullet train technology with Japan, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi described visit of his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe “truly…
Patna, Dec 11 (IANS) Former MP Mohammad Shahabuddin and three others were sentenced to a life imprisonment by a Bihar court on Friday for giving an acid bath to two brothers and murdering them 11…