Panaji, May 7 (IANS) The public is concerned about the alleged sexual enslavement of a minor girl by a Goa legislator, given that “every system” in the country has become “bankrupt,” state BJP spokesman Wilfred…
Ranchi, May 7 (IANS) A 32-year-old woman was allegedly raped in a bus in Jharkhand’s Koderma district, police said Saturday. According to the police, the woman was travelling to Jharkhand’s Koderma district from Bihar’s Nawada…
Beijing, May 7 (IANS) Seventeen Chinese nationals were injured on Saturday when a Hong Kong Airlines plane hit severe turbulence over Borneo island after taking off from Indonesia’s Bali island, officials said. The incident occurred…
Phnom Penh, May 7 (IANS) Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has said his personal website was hacked early Saturday. In a statement posted on his Facebook page, the prime minister said the hackers had changed…
Islamabad, May 7 (IANS) At a time when both ruling and opposition parties criticise each other over allegations of corruption against the backdrop of the leaked Panama Papers, a report said 64 percent of Pakistanis…
United Nations, May 7 (IANS) At the start of the third week of response to the 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Ecuador, the UN humanitarian aid wing said the toll has risen to 660. The latest…
Lucknow, May 7 (IANS) Over a dozen prisoners were injured in violence at the Muzaffarnagar jail late Friday night, police said. Three prison inmates were critically injured and are undergoing treatment. While the situation was…
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), May 7 (IANS) At least six people died, including a policeman, as a consequence of shootouts between police patrolling a favela (slum) and alleged drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s…
Istanbul, May 7 (IANS) Can Dundar and Erdem Gul, journalists from Turkeys Cumhuriyet newspaper, have been convicted on charges of “revealing state secrets” and sentenced to over five years in prison by an Istanbul court….
Guwahati, May 6 (IANS) After a gap of over two years, poachers have managed to kill an one-horned rhino in Assam’s Manas national park, officials said on Friday. “The forest guards here spotted a rhino…
(Photo: IANS) New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the central and Assam governments on a PIL by a former operative of military intelligence seeking a CBI probe into…
New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) BJP MP Tarun Vijay on Friday urged the central government to “enact a law to prescribe life imprisonment” for people found guilty of causing forest fires in the country and…
Panaji, May 6 (IANS) Unattached Goa legislator Atanasio Monserrate, accused of ‘buying’ a minor girl and subsequently raping her, was on Friday remanded in three-day police custody by a trial court here. Judicial Magistrate (First…
New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) BJP’s Rajya Sabha member Subramanian Swamy on Friday authenticated the documents he quoted from while participating in a debate on the AgustaWestland chopper deal. Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman P.J. Kurien…
New Delhi: Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar at Parliament in New Delhi, on April 28, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Friday indicated a probe into the 2012…
Bhubaneswar, May 6 (IANS) As many as 201 people have been caught for getting government jobs by producing fake caste certificates since 2010, said an Odisha minister on Friday. Replying to a written question of…
New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday conducted searches at eight locations in Rajashthan’s Bikaner district in connection with a land grab case allegedly involving a company linked to Congress president Sonia…
Kolkata, May 6 (IANS) The BSF on Friday seized 30 kg cannabis in West Bengal near the Bangladesh border. While carrying out the anti-smuggling operations across the south Bengal frontier, the Border Security Force troopers…
Gurgaon, May 6 (IANS) A 35-year-old Nigerian national was arrested here for overstaying even after his Indian visa expired, police said on Friday. A police spokesman told IANS that Kayode Olajide of Lagos came to…
Aizawl, May 6 (IANS) An army officer, arrested in Mizoram capital Aizawl on Thursday for allegedly robbing gold biscuits worth Rs.14.5 crore from a driver who brought hese from Myanmar in December 2015, was sent…