Panaji, Aug 2 (IANS) Badgered by numerous websites advertising escort services and prostitution in Goa, the Crime Branch has written to the Delhi-based Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) to block websites and disable popular keyword…
Hyderabad, Aug 2 (IANS) The Telangana government on Tuesday scrapped the TS EAMCET-II 2016 examination in the wake of leakage of the question paper last month and said a fresh exam will be held for…
New Delhi, Aug 2 (IANS) The Crime Branch of the Delhi Police on Tuesday arrested Deepak aka ‘Boxer’ who helped an undertrial escape from police custody while he was being taken by a bus to…
Chandigarh, Aug 2 (IANS) The Haryana Police has registered a criminal case against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislator from Delhi Cantt Surinder Singh for securing a job in the Haryana government allegedly on the basis…
Hanoi, Aug 2 (IANS) The central bank of Vietnam has warned banks, credit institutions and financial organisations against hacker attacks after websites of Vietnam Airlines and IT systems at airports were hacked, the media reported…
New Delhi, Aug 2 (IANS) A court here on Tuesday fixed August 4 for pronouncing the quantum of punishment for Mahmood Farooqui, co-director of the 2010 Hindi film ‘Peepli Live’, convicted for the rape of…
Singapore, Aug 2 (IANS) Forty-four persons were arrested here for bringing in foreign workers for illegal employment in Singapore, the Ministry of Manpower (MoM) said in a statement on Tuesday. Six of those arrested were…
New Delhi, Aug 2 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday demanded a CBI probe into the gang-rape in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh. “The (Uttar Pradesh) government has failed to take action in the shameful…
Chandigarh, Aug 2 (IANS) The Border Security Force (BSF) has recovered 15 kg of heroin along the India-Pakistan border in Punjab’s Tarn Taran sector, officials said on Tuesday. The heroin was recovered after exchange of…
Chandigarh, Aug 2 (IANS) At least two children died and nearly 30 others were rushed to hospital following suspected food poisoning in a home for mentally challenged children in Punjab’s Kapurthala town, 175 km from…
Mumbai, Aug 2 (IANS) A Special MCOCA Court on Tuesday sentenced Lashkar-e-Taiba operative and 26/11 Mumbai terror attack plotter Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal and six others to life imprisonment till death in the…
Washington, Aug 2 (IANS) A former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) employee with top secret security clearance is set to face up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to being an agent of…
Lucknow, Aug 2 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister Mohammad Azam Khan on Tuesday created a controversy by alleging that a “political conspiracy” might be involved in the gang rape of a Noida-based mother and daughter…
Panaji, Aug 2 (IANS) Hands of those people accused of corruption should be chopped off, opposition MLA Naresh Sawal said on Tuesday said. He made the demand in the Goa assembly. “If the government is…
Islamabad, Aug 2 (IANS) At least 12 persons were killed and over 30 others injured on Tuesday in a passenger bus and truck collision in Pakistan’s Sindh province. The accident took place when the speeding…
New York, Aug 2 (IANS) New York state authorities have banned registered sex offenders from downloading and playing the augmented reality game Pokemon Go citing concerns that paedophiles could use the app to find or…
Rio De Janeiro, Aug 2 (IANS) At least eight persons were killed when an executive jet crashed into an industrial warehouse in Brazil, official sources said on Monday. The twin-engine Piper Navajo jet crashed onto…
Kolkata, Aug 1 (IANS) Twelve marooned fishermen, whose boat had developed a serious technical snag, were rescued by indian Coast Guard off Sagar island, an official statement said here on Monday. Coast Guard ship Anmol,…
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) Terming the offer by Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel to quit as a “cosmetic change”, Communist Party of India Marxist (CPI-M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Monday said this was…
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) The Delhi government will extend compensation to the family of a motorcyclist who was run over by a truck in south Delhi’s Vasant Kunj area after his motorcycle got stuck…