New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Thursday restrained the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) from taking any coercive steps against the student-activist Umar Khalid till Friday. “JNU shall not take any coercive…
Rome, July 18 (IANS/AKI) Forty migrants including two pregnant women are stranded off Tunisia after being picked up by a supply ship in international waters off Malta and “illegally transferred” to Tunisian territorial waters, activist…
Rome, July 18 (IANS/AKI) Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms will not allow its migrant rescue ship to dock in Italy as the country has “no safe port” where the survivor from a deadly shipwreck off…
Ahmedabad, July 18 (IANS) A Special CBI Court here on Wednesday reserved its verdict for August 4 on the discharge pleas of two retired police officers D.G. Vanzara and N.K. Amin in the 2004 Ishrat…
Rome, July 18 (IANS/AKI) Italian authorities expelled a 29-year-old Tunisian accused of supporting the Islamic State jihadist group – the second in less than a week, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday. The Tunisian, was…
New Delhi, July 18 (IANS) Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi termed the tabling of anti-human trafficking Bill on Wednesday a “resounding victory”, saying that if passed, it will be one of the most comprehensive anti-trafficking laws…
New Delhi, July 18 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday was irked with Centre and state governments for their “lethargic approach” in dealing with large number of pending criminal appeals and failure to appoint ad-hoc…
Kolkata, July 18 (IANS) With the final draft of National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam to be published at the month end, an activist group on Wednesday termed the registration process as being “motivated…
Panaji, July 18 (IANS) The management of Shree Mangueshi temple has said it could not come across “dependable evidence” after a Goan-origin medical student in the US complained of inappropriate behaviour by a priest in…
New Delhi, July 18 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday filed a supplementary charge sheet in the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal against 34 individuals and foreign and Indian companies including former…
New Delhi, July 18 (IANS) Elements of protest, resistance, pride and assertion of identity can be discerned from Dalit writings in English, said Sahitya Akademi Secretary K. Sreenivasa Rao at a “Dalit Indian English Poets’…
New Delhi, July 18 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday said that every vehicle, including that of top constitutional authorities, should display the registration number. The order by a bench of Acting Chief Justice…
New Delhi, July 18 (IANS) The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea which sought the recall of its order imposing cost of Rs 25 lakh on NGO CJAR while junking a plea for court-monitored SIT…
Toronto, July 18 (IANS) Women entrepreneurs worldwide face funding challenge to scale their businesses due to investors’ trust deficit in the success of their firms, said some of them at a global women entrepreneur summit…
New Delhi, July 18 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wenesday directed the Centre to treat as a representation a PIL seeking the sale of petrol and diesel at reasonable prices instead of letting the…
Patna, July 18 (IANS) Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi on Wednesday demanded the cancellation of the provisional bail granted by the Jharkhand High Court to RJD chief Lalu Prasad for “violating the bail’s…
New Delhi, July 18 (IANS) The Union Cabinet on Wednesday gave its nod to present a bill in the Parliament, proposing death sentence for rapists of children below the age of 12. Union Law and…
Brussels, July 18 (IANS) Accusing Google of illegally using Android mobile devices to strengthen dominance of its search engine, the European Commission on Wednesday imposed a record fine of 4.34 billion euros ($5 billion) on…
New Delhi, July 18 (IANS) PETA India has called on e-commerce sites — OLX and Quikr — to end the sale of live animals, saying this kind of trade treats them as unfeeling commodities and…
Canberra, July 18 (IANS) A 10-year-old Indian boy has been refused an Australian visitor visa for a third time as the Department of Home Affairs feels he does not have “employment or financial incentives” to…