Imphal, Dec 27 (IANS) Over 3,800 licensed women vendors in the unique three all-women markets in the Imphal city launched sit-in on Thursday demanding framing of market rules so that their interests are protected. They…
Jammu, Dec 27 (IANS) People living close to the Line of Control (LoC) and the international border in Jammu and Kashmir will soon get free set-top boxes (STBs) to improve television connectivity in these remote…
Mumbai, Dec 27 (IANS) With an eye on the 2019 parliament and state assembly elections, Maharashtra announced a New Year bonanza on Tuesday: It would implement the 7th Pay Commission’s recommendations for all government employees….
New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) The Lok Sabha on Thursday passed a controversial bill that criminalises the practice of triple talaq among Muslims, amidst walkout by the Congress and the BJP ally AIADMK as opposition…
Islamabad, Dec 27 (IANS) The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government on Thursday decided to ban former President and PPP co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari and another 171 people from leaving the country over a money laundering case…
New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) Three months after no action taken against foster parents who were accused of sexually abusing an adopted girl child, Union Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi has written to…
Islamabad, Dec 27 (IANS) The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government on Thursday decided to ban former President and PPP co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari and another 171 people, linked to a money laundering case being probed on…
New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) The Lok Sabha on Thursday passed the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2018 that makes instant triple talaq or talaq-e-biddat a criminal offence, with a jail term…
New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Thursday likened the practice of triple talaq with long abolished ‘sati-pratha’, saying the practice of divorce among Indian Muslims is not related to Islam…
New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) CPI-M Lok Sabha Member Mohammed Salim on Thursday said the Narendra Modi government is using the triple talaq bill as a political tool and in reality, it is not sincere…
New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) Amid speculation of return to India of Ogyen Trinley Dorje, one of the two claimants to the title of 17th Karmapa Lama, it is now reliably learnt that New Delhi…
New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) A Delhi court on Thursday sent 10 persons, arrested for being a part of a module of the Islamic State (IS), to police custody for 12 days, officials said. Vacation…
Shenyang (China), Dec 27 (IANS) China’s former intelligence chief Ma Jian was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for crimes, including taking bribes and insider trading. Ma, a former vice Minister in China’s powerful…
New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) AIADMK parliamentarian A. Anwhar Raajhaa on Thursday opposed the triple talaq bill, calling it “unconstitutional”, against “natural justice” and one of the most “barbaric” laws to have ever been introduced…
New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) Defending the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2018 in the Lok Sabha, BJP member Meenakshi Lekhi on Thursday questioned if ‘Triple Talaq was part of the Quran…
Shenyang (China), Dec 27 (IANS) Chinese former vice Minister of State Security Ma Jian was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for taking bribes. Ma was also punished for forced transactions and insider trading,…
Panaji, Dec 27 (IANS) There cannot be a restriction on ‘prasad’ being offered to the Gods, Uttar Pradesh Minister for Civil Aviation Nand Gopal Gupta said on Thursday, when asked if the government would continue…
New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) The Lok Sabha on Thursday took up the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2018, for discussion and passage amid protests by the Opposition which demanded that the…
Paris, Dec 27 (IANS) France has dropped a long-running investigation into the shooting down of a plane carrying former Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, whose death in 1994 was a trigger for the genocide in the…
Washington, Dec 27 (IANS) US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was discharged from hospital following a surgery to remove cancerous growths found on her left lung, the court has said. Ginsburg was released from…