Ramallah, April 9 (IANS) The Palestinian father of a 17-year-old activist jailed for slapping and shoving a heavily armed Israeli soldier said on Monday that his daughter was psychologically and physically threatened by Israeli interrogators….
New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday informed by the Central government that it has proposed to set up a Special Task Force (STF) to monitor issues relating to unauthorised constructions in…
New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to Manish Bhandari – the oxygen supplier to a hospital in Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur where a large number of children died in 2017….
New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) The ED on Monday carried out searches at Vadodara-based Diamond Power Infrastructure Ltd (DPIL) and its directors who are accused of defrauding a consortium of 11 banks of a Rs…
New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday refused to interfere with the panchayat elections in West Bengal, rejecting a BJP plea for rescheduling them so that its candidates could file their nomination…
San Francisco, April 9 (IANS) In yet another bid to prevent fake news and foreign interference in upcoming elections globally including in India, Facebook on Monday announced a new initiative to help provide credible research…
Shimla, April 9 (IANS) Twenty-nine persons, including 26 students, were killed on Monday when a private school bus fell into a gorge in Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh, police said. Superintendent of Police Santosh Patyal…
Mumbai, April 9 (IANS) The CBI continued questioning Rajiv Kochhar, brother-in-law of ICICI Bank MD and CEO Chanda Kochhar, for the fifth consecutive day on Monday along with NuPower Renewables Pvt Ltd director Mahesh Chandra…
Mumbai, April 9 (IANS) The key Indian equity indices rose on Monday in line with their international peers after signs emerged over easing of recent global trade protectionist measures. According to market analysts, other global…
Seoul, April 9 (IANS) Prosecutors indicted former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Monday over a string of corruption charges, including taking millions of dollars in bribes, making him the country’s fourth former leader to…
Lucknow, April 9 (IANS) A day after a girl tried to set herself on fire outside the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister’s residence, alleging police inaction in her gang rape by a BJP MLA, her father…
New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government of being anti-Dalit and said his party will defeat the BJP in 2019 Lok Sabha elections….
Shimla, April 9 (IANS) At least nine children from a private school in Himachal Pradesh were killed when their school bus skidded off the road and fell into a 100-feet-deep gorge in Kangra district on…
Lucknow, April 9 (IANS) The BJP government in Uttar Pradesh on Monday installed a statue of Babasaheb B.R. Ambedkar in a Budaun village painted saffron, unlike the usual blue. The statue of the architect of…
Ranchi, April 9 (IANS) A special CBI court in Ranchi on Monday convicted 37 people and acquitted five in one of the cases related to the fodder scam. The case (number RC 45A/96) related to…
Mumbai, April 9 (IANS) A leading Mumbai law firm may face action by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the possession of some unauthorised documents pertaining to the ongoing probe in the…
Budapest, April 9 (IANS) Hungary’s right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a strong Eurosceptic who campaigned on an anti-immigration platform, has claimed a landslide victory in the country’s general elections. The 54-year-old will serve a third…
Dhaka, April 9 (IANS) Bangladesh and India signed an agreement here on Monday on their proposed 129.5 km oil pipeline aimed at pumping Indian oil to Bangladesh with a capacity of 1 million tonnes per…
New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) The Union Home Ministry has asked all the state governments to be extra vigilant to avoid any violence and loss of life and property amid calls on social media for…
Thiruvananthapuram, April 9 (IANS) Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Issac has persuaded other southern states to join hands against the terms of reference of the 15th Finance Commission (FC) that are seen as hampering the prospects…