Maltese Navy rescues 180 migrants
Valetta, Jan 1 (IANS/AKI) Maltese armed forces said they had successfully saved 180 migrants from two boats off the coast of Malta. A total of 28 migrants were plucked from a dinghy 71 nautical miles…
Valetta, Jan 1 (IANS/AKI) Maltese armed forces said they had successfully saved 180 migrants from two boats off the coast of Malta. A total of 28 migrants were plucked from a dinghy 71 nautical miles…
Vijayawada, Jan 1 (IANS) Justice Chagari Praveen Kumar was sworn in as the Acting Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court here on Tuesday. Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan administered the oath of…
Hyderabad, Jan 1 (IANS) Justice Thottathil Bhaskaran Nair Radhakrishnan was on Tuesday sworn in as the first Chief justice of Telangana High Court, officials said. Telangana and Andhra Pradesh Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan administered oath to…
New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) Following an adverse report about a national capital-based shelter home by the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW), Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Monday directed the District Magistrate to…
Hyderabad, Dec 31 (IANS) With the decks cleared for functioning of separate high courts of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana from New Year, employees and lawyers of Andhra Pradesh at the High Court of Judicature in…
New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) The political slugfest over the VVIP chopper deal case on Monday intensified with BJP chief Amit Shah accusing the Gandhi family of having “deep friendship” with arrested AgustaWestland middleman Christian…
Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 31 (IANS) The one-man Kerala cabinet-appointed Justice (rtd) C.N. Ramachandran Commission, which was asked to look into the Vizhinjam port agreement inked by former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy-led government, on Monday gave a…
New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) Former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, sentenced to life imprisonment in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, was on Monday sent to jail after he surrendered in a city court. Kumar surrendered…
New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) Amid the political slugfest between the BJP and the Congress over AgustaWestland middleman Christian Michel making apparent reference to UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi, former Defence…
New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) Former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, sentenced to life imprisonment in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, surrendered in a city court on Monday. Kumar surrendered in Delhi’s Karkardooma Court, complying with…
New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) Blaming successive governments for undertaking economic and labour reforms hostile to workers, a joint forum of central trade unions (CTUs) on Monday demanded universal social security coverage for every worker…
Srinagar, Dec 31 (IANS) Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said on Monday that the Triple Talaq bill will create more problems for Muslim women as it will disturb the family structure among…
By Radhika Bhirani New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) It took a year since the #MeToo wave hit Hollywood for its tides to be felt in India across the showbiz, media, art, literature and political worlds….
Tokyo, Dec 31 (IANS) A Tokyo court on Monday extended to January 11 the detention of Nissan Motor?s former Chairman Carlos Ghosn, who was arrested in connection with financial misconduct allegations. The 64-year-old French-Brazilian businessman…
Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 30 (IANS) The CPI-M’s move to form a Women’s Wall, from Kasargode to Thiruvananthapuram on January 1, to uphold renaissance values and gender equality in society is a bundle of contradictions, the Congress…
Shimla, Dec 30 (IANS) The ‘Shakti’ mobile app, which was launched for women’s safety in Himachal Pradesh, has redressed 28,968 complaints in less than a year, the government said on Sunday. Likewise, out of 1,233…
San Francisco, Dec 30 (IANS) A judge in Chicago has dismissed a lawsuit that alleged that Google violated privacy of users by using facial recognition technology to scan their photos without their explicit consent. In…
By Brij Khandelwal Mathura/Agra, Dec 30 (IANS) On any busy traffic crossing in the historic Mughal city of Agra, one would be surprised to see the number of women on two-wheelers. Not only young girls,…
Monterrey (Mexico), Dec 30 (IANS) The government of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Saturday decreed the creation of a free zone along the US border as part of a project to win investment,…
Berlin, Dec 30 (IANS) The Hannover Airport was shut down for several hours on Saturday after a man high on drugs drove a car through a gate and onto the tarmac of the airport, the…