Yangon, Nov 30 (IANS) Pope Francis on Thursday urged the youth in Myanmar to defend human rights and justice. At a mass at the St. Mary’s Cathedral here, with which the Pope concluded his state…
Chennai, Nov 30 (IANS) The ruling AIADMK party on Thursday nominated former Minister E. Madhusudhanan as its candidate for the by-election to the Radhakrishnan Nagar Assembly constituency. The decision was taken at the party’s governing…
Brussels, Nov 30 (IANS) The Muslim population in some European countries could triple by 2050 while it will barely change in others, according to new projections. The projections were in a report titled “Europe’s Growing…
The Hague, Nov 30 (IANS) A Bosnian Croat war criminal has died after drinking poison during an appeal hearing in The Hague, media report said. Slobodan Praljak, 72, died in hospital, with the UN court…
United Nations, Nov 30 (IANS) Syria remains the world’s largest and most dynamic displacement crisis, with half of Syrians displaced from their homes, a top UN humanitarian official has said. On average, more than 6,500…
Harare, Nov 30 (IANS) Leading Zimbabwean opposition activist Pastor Evan Mawarire has been acquitted on charges of trying to overthrow Robert Mugabe’s former government. The organiser of last year’s #ThisFlag protests faced 20 years in…
Gandhinagar, Nov 30 (IANS) The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday ordered the Election Commission to file their reply by December 5 on a PIL seeking regular appointment of a Director General of Police (DGP) in…
Geneva, Nov 29 (IANS/AKI) United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said on Wednesday it welcomed a decision by Libyan authorities to set up a “transit and departure facility” in Tripoli to aid the transfer to host…
Chennai, Nov 29 (IANS) The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday ordered the closure of sand quarries in Tamil Nadu in six months time while suggesting sand imports to meet the demand….
Rome, Nov 29 (IANS/AKI) A court here on Wednesday convicted two Afghans, Mamur and Zar Jan, of the 2001 execution of Italian journalist Maria Grazia Cutuli in Afghanistan and sentenced the pair to 24 years…
Guwahati, Nov 29 (IANS) Protests opposing the eviction drive in Amchang Wildlife Sanctuary near here continued to rock different parts of Assam on Wednesday even as the state government suspended the drive in view of…
New Delhi, Nov 29 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it can’t frame guidelines on how to investigate cases of dowry harassment as this will amount to going beyond the statutory provision of the…
New Delhi, Nov 29 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday questioned the city government’s proposal to use Rs 400 crore out of the Rs 700 crore Environment Compensation Charge (ECC) fund to purchase 500…
New Delhi, Nov 29 (IANS) The NIA on Wednesday said it had arrested Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Abdul Naeem Sheikh from Uttar Pradesh, who was sent in 10-day NIA custody by a Delhi court later in…
Chennai, Nov 29 (IANS) Justice Dalveer Bhandari, who was re-elected as the judge of the International Court of Justice after a tense diplomatic temple this month,on Wednesday sought divine blessings at the Lord Shiva temple…
Ahmednagar (Maharashtra), Nov 29 (IANS) A Special Court on Wednesday awarded death sentence to three men convicted in the rape and brutal murder of a 15-year-old schoolgirl in Kopardi village in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district in…
Gurugram, Nov 29 (IANS) A four-member panel, probing the death of a seven-year-old girl at Gurugram’s Fortis Hospital and the subsequent bill of almost Rs 16 lakh slapped on the parents, has found “irregularities” by…
Chennai, Nov 29 (IANS) The Madras High Court on Wednesday asked the nurses, whose strike entered its third day, to resume work. In its interim order on a Public Interest Litigation, the court directed them…
New Delhi, Nov 29 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought response from the BCCI and its treasurer Anirudh Chaudhry on allegations that he had threatened the cricket board’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Santosh Rangnekar…
New Delhi, Nov 29 (IANS) Imposing a cost of Rs 10,000 on Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed his petition against a show-cause notice to him by the authorities for…