Shillong, June 17 (IANS) The Meghalaya High Court has ordered a CBI inquiry into an alleged recruitment scam of the police conducted by the Meghalaya Public Service Commission. Justice Sudip Ranjan Sen issued the order…
Brasilia, June 17 (IANS) Brazilian interim President Michel Temer has denied involvement in a corruption case that forced a third minister to step down. Temer on Thursday mounted a spirited defence against allegations by Sergio…
Sydney, June 17 (IANS) A man was arrested on Friday after he got out of his taxi and started climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Footage from a news helicopter showed the man sitting on one…
Washington, June 17 (IANS) Applying some physics to study how terrorist groups grow online, a team of researchers has developed a model to identify behavioural patterns among Islamic State (IS) supporters, providing law enforcement agencies…
Ahmedabad, June 17 (IANS) A special court here on Friday sentenced to life imprisonment 11 persons, of the 24 convicted for the Gulberg Society massacre of 2002. One of the convicts was sentenced to 10…
Quito, June 17 (IANS) Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa announced that the government has renewed a state of emergency which was declared following a 7.8-magnitude earthquake on April 16 for another 30 days. The president renewed…
WASHINGTON D.C., U.S. President Barack Obama. (Xinhua/Yin Bogu/IANS) Orlando, June 17 (IANS) US President Barack Obama on Thursday told relatives of those killed or wounded in last Sunday’s shooting in Orlando that their stories have…
Cairo, June 17 (IANS) The Egyptian Aircraft Accident Investigation Committee said on Thursday that the cockpit voice recorder of crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 has been recovered but found damaged. “The device has been recovered in…
London, June 16 (IANS) British Labour MP Jo Cox died after she was shot and stabbed in an attack in her constituency on Thursday, reported the BBC. The attack took place near a public library…
Shillong, June 16 (IANS) Eighteen more dead bodies were recovered on Thursday from the 500-feet deep gorge, taking to 25 the death toll in a bus accident in Meghalaya, police said. “A total of 25…
New Delhi, June 16 (IANS) Swaraj Abhiyan leader Yogendra Yadav on Thursday accused the Centre of “wilfully disobeying” a Supreme Court order on the 13 drought-hit states in the country. “Universal access to foodgrain in…
New Delhi, June 16 (IANS) A 25-year-old woman returning home after watching a movie was abducted and gang-raped in a moving car here by three men, police said on Thursday. All three accused have been…
Hanoi, June 16 (IANS) An aircraft with nine people aboard lost contact on Thursday while carrying out a rescue mission in Vietnam, an official said. The CASA aircraft lost contact when it was flying over…
New Delhi, June 16 (IANS) Two days after the arrest of Farouk Irani, former managing director of a Chennai-based First Leasing Company of India Limited (FLCIL), the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday attached over Rs…
New Delhi, June 16 (IANS) In what could turn out an embarrassment for the Congress party, Delhi Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung on Thursday cleared a probe against former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit in the alleged…
London, June 16 (IANS) A man has been arrested after a British Labour MP was shot at in Birstall in West Yorkshire, police said on Thursday. The injured woman is said to be Jo Cox,…
Niamey (Niger), June 16 (IANS/AKI) The bodies of 34 migrants, including 20 children, thought to have died of thirst have been found in the Sahara desert near the Niger’s border with Algeria, Niger’s Interior Minister…
Cairo, June 16 (IANS) The Egyptian Aircraft Accident Investigation Committee said on Thursday that the cockpit voice recorder of crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 has been recovered but found damaged. “The device has been recovered in…
Ahmedabad, June 16 (IANS) A major fire broke out in an ancillary unit at the Tata Nano plant in Gujarat on Thursday. No one was injured, officials said, though the damage could run into lakhs…
Kolkata: Judith D’Souza, the Indian female aid worker who has been abducted by suspected militants. D’Souza in Afghanistan, 40, was working as a senior technical advisor on gender with the Aga Khan Developmental Network in…