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…
Islamabad, March 16 (IANS) At least nine Pakistani fishermen were released by India as a goodwill gesture, Pakistani media reported. According to the Edhi Foundation, the Pakistani fishermen were handed over to Pakistan Rangers officials…
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday witnessed acrimonious scenes during the zero hour over a sting operation in West Bengal as members from the Trinamool Congress and the Communist Party of…
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday accused the BJP of shielding those “who raised anti-national slogans on the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus here. BJP is most anti-national of all….
Lucknow, March 16 (IANS) A student leader of a Meerut college has announced a reward of Rs.21,000 to anyone who cuts the tongue of AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi. Dushyant Tomar, a former president of the…
Quito, March 16 (IANS) A military aircraft crashed in the Ecuadorian province of Pastaza, killing all 22 people on board, officials said. The accident occurred on Tuesday when the soldiers were to conduct a parachuting…
Lucknow, March 16 (IANS) Rail traffic on the Delhi-Howrah line was restored on Wednesday after two wagons of a goods train that derailed in Uttar Pradesh were removed from the track , a railway official…
Quito, March 16 (IANS) A military aircraft crashed in the Ecuadorian province of Pastaza, killing all 22 soldiers on board, military sources said. Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa confirmed the crash on his official Twitter account…
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…
Venice, March 16 (IANS/AKI) A teacher has been sacked from a technical high school in Italy for sending sexually explicit text messages to pupils, a media report said. The headmistress of the Musatti high school…
Ahmedabad, March 15 (IANS) Police in Gujarat’s Anand stumbled upon a major inter-state racket in trafficking of human organs, bringing 13 people to the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital on Tuesday for forensic examination on suspicion that…
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…
Ghaziabad, March 15 (IANS) The CBI on Tuesday filed a chargesheet against then Noida authority chief engineer Yadav Singh and 13 others, including his wife and former officials, on charges of corruption that caused a…
New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) Jawaharlal Nehru University on Tuesday denied media reports that a high-level inquiry committee had recommended the rustication of five students from the university. “It is not true. Not at all…,”…
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…
New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) The BJP has taken serious note of the incident in Dehradun where a party legislator attacked and severely injured a horse of Uttarakhand Police, union minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy said…
New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) A man stabbed a woman and her 16-year-old son to death and later slit his throat here on Tuesday evening, police said. The man was still alive and being treated…
New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) Twelve spies were arrested in Rajasthan since 2013, parliament was informed on Tuesday. Minister of State for Home Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary told the Lok Sabha that five arrests took place…
New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) Delhi Police raised Rs.9.2 million from traffic offenders in just the first two months of this year, parliament was informed on Tuesday. Minister of State for Home Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary…