Kochi, Aug 12 (IANS) Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan got a breather on Friday as the Kerala High Court allowed CBI counsel a month’s time to study a revision petition filed by the central agency…
New Delhi, Aug 12 (IANS) Emphasising that investigation plays an important role in ensuring justice to the victim, Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said that police stations must be modernised as the initial investigation…
New Delhi, Aug 12 (IANS) Yesterday’s billionaires are India’s most defaulting billionaires today, said journalist Josy Joseph, while releasing his book ‘A Feast of Vultures – The Hidden Business of Democracy in India’ here on…
New Delhi, Aug 12 (IANS) BJP’s Rajya Sabha member Shwait Malik on Friday raised the issue of what he said were “security lapses” at Wagah-Attari Joint Check Post (JCP) on the India-Pakistan border, and claimed…
New Delhi, Aug 12 (IANS) The death of a pedestrian, who was left bleeding for hours by the roadside here after he was knocked down by a speeding vehicle, has moved Sikkim MP P.D. Rai…
New Delhi, Aug 12 (IANS) Emphasising that investigation plays an important role in ensuring justice to the victim, Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said that police stations must be modernised as the initial investigation…
Panaji, Aug 12 (IANS) Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar told the state assembly on Friday that a non-police official will conduct an impartial inquiry into bribery allegations against Inspector General of Police Sunil Garg. “An…
Manisha Chachra Four years after the December 16, 2012, gang-rape of a physiotherapy student that India knows as Nirbhaya, the administrative overhaul promised is fading, according to our investigation of the reform process that was…
Lisbon, Aug 12 (IANS) Wildfires killed three people on Portugal’s Madeira island and resulted in an economic loss of at least 55 million euros ($61.27 million), local media reported on Thursday. Two people were severely…
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 12 (IANS) Members of Brazil’s elite FNS police force, deployed here to provide additional security for the 2016 Olympic Games, surrounded a pair of Rio shantytowns after one of their comrades…
Panaji, Aug 11 (IANS) The Goa government ordered a probe after a businessman on Thursday accused IGP Sunil Garg of demanding and accepting Rs 5.5 lakh in bribe for registering a First Information Report in…
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) A milk supplier has been arrested for hitting a 32-year-old man with his autorickshaw leading to his death, police said on Thursday. The deceased identified as Matbool was lying unattended…
New York, Aug 11 (IANS) Federal prosecutors are demanding a prison sentence for 83-year-old father of the embattled Indian American Congressman, Amerish Ami Bera, in an election funding fraud case, even though other officials have…
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) A milk supplier has been arrested here for hitting a 32-year-old man with his autorickshaw leading to his death, Delhi police said on Thursday. Deputy Commissioner of Police Pushpendra Kumar…
Kolkata, Aug 11 (IANS) Faulty design, sub-standard raw materials, and inadequate supervision caused the under-construction Vivekananda Road flyover at a crowded marketplace here to come apart, claiming 26 human lives and injuring over 100 persons,…
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) Dubbing the increasing incidents of atrocities on the Dalits as a “challenge before Indian society”, the Union government on Thursday voiced its committment to prevent such crime by empowering the…
Kolkata, Aug 11 (IANS) A rights body on Thursday said at least 36 Bangladeshi children were illegally detained at a home in West Bengal and sought National Human Rights Commission’s intervention to free them. In…
Mumbai, Aug 11 (IANS) In the wake of the kidney racket unearthed at its medical facility, Hiranandani Hopital, Powai, will conduct a forensic audit of the transplant cases there, an official said here late on…
Ahmedabad, Aug 11 (IANS) Mahatma Gandhi’s Sevagram Ashram at Wardha has offered the Dalit victims of Una to shift to its premises in Maharashtra after they expressed fear for their lives at their native village…
Raigad (Maharashtra), Aug 11 (IANS) Battling strong currents and crocodiles, Indian Navy divers on Thursday located two pieces of wreckage of one of the two ill-fated State Transport buses which were washed away on August…