Dhaka, July 24 (IANS) Charges have finally been pressed against eight militants over Bangladesh’s most horrific terror attack in 2016 that left 22 people, mostly foreigners, dead. Monirul Islam, chief of Bangladesh’s Counter Terrorism and…
Berlin, July 24 (IANS/AKI) Italy will keep its ports open to European Union mission vessels that rescue migrants in the Mediterranean, Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi said on Monday. “For as long as it takes…
New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday allowed Karti Chidambaram, son of senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram, to travel abroad subject to certain conditions. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice…
Lecce (Italy), July 23 (IANS/AKI) As many as 47 Pakistani boat migrants arrived in the southern Italy port city of Otranto on Monday after they were rescued off the island of Sant’Andrea in the Puglia…
New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday said that the right to hold peaceful demonstration is a fundamental right and there cannot be any “blanket ban” on holding protests at Delhi’s historic…
New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) In major step to curb vehicular pollution, the Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that sale and manufacture of BS-VI non-compliant vehicles in India should not be allowed from…
Kolkata, July 23 (IANS) Bangladesh High Commissioner in India Syed Muazzem Ali on Monday expressed concern over the condition of the one million Rohingya refugees staying in Bangladesh and appealed to the Myanmar government to…
New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a plea filed by a transgender who was refused a cabin crew position by national carrier Air India owing to her sexual…
New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) The Supreme Court was told on Monday that a lawmaker upon conviction gets automatically disqualified from continuing as a member of Parliament or of a state Legislature and his seat…
Chandigarh, July 23 (IANS) A young man was killed and his pillion rider injured in an accident during a police chase, following which his family, neighbours and friends on Monday protested outside a police station…
New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) The Delhi High Court will hear Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs plea challenging an Election Commission order in the the office-of-profit case on Tuesday. The AAP legislators have challenged the…
Panaji, July 23 (IANS) For a parent, going for a movie with their children is the same as taking three hours from the children’s time and giving it away to Shah Rukh Khan and the…
New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday sought a response from the Central government on a fresh plea that challenged the constitutional validity of the practice of polygamy and ‘nikah halala’ among…
Panaji, July 23 (IANS) Soon, renting rooms in Goa will only be allowed if there is a toilet and bathroom on the premises and tenant verification is formally carried out, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar told…
New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) The Centre has set up a high-level committee headed by Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba to formulate steps to check mob lynchings and directed it to submit the recommendations within…
Nainital (Uttarakhand), July 23 (IANS) The Uttarakhand High Court on Monday asked the Union government whether the Badrinath shrine can be declared a national heritage site. Hearing a petition filed by law student Chetna Bhargava,…
Ranchi, July 23 (ANS) The Jharkhand government is working on a policy under which if a tribal girl marries a non-tribal, she will be barred from buying tribal land. “According to a draft of the…
New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) The Centre on Monday informed the Supreme Court that, to begin with, it favoured live-streaming of hearings by Constitution Benches and Court Number one presided over by the Chief Justice…
New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) Parliamentary approval was accorded to the Specific Relief (Amendment) Bill, 2017, giving an affected party — whose contract has not been performed by the other party — the option to…
Islamabad, July 23 (IANS) Even as political parties in Pakistan busied themselves with the last day of campaigning on Monday, minority groups are all set to boycott the elections alleging non-inclusion in the electoral process,…