Mumbai, Aug 9 (IANS) Mumbai was engulfed by a ‘Maratha storm’ as lakhs of the politically powerful community prepared for their first, biggest and final mammoth ‘mook morcha’ (silent procession) to demand reservations in jobs…
Lucknow, Aug 9 (IANS) Taking a grim view on the pollution in river Yamuna, the Allahabad High Court has summoned the District Magistrate of Mathura to appear before it on August 28. The court in…
Bengaluru, Aug 8 (IANS) Calling for unlocking public data for free access, technocrat Nandan Nilekani on Tuesday said the government should empower users with data for solving the country’s hard problems. “Data is empowering when…
Ghaziabad, Aug 8 (IANS) The Allahabad High Court is to hear on Thursday the case of a student’s death in GD Goenka Public School Indirapuram. After issuance of notice from the High Court on Tuesday,…
Rome, Aug 8 (IANS/AKI) Amid a rift within Italy’s centre-left government over stringent new rules for charities rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean, Transport Minister Graziano Delrio on Tuesday said Italy had a legal obligation to…
New Delhi, Aug 8 (IANS) The government on Tuesday cleared the appointment of Justice Dipak Misra as the next Chief Justice of India. Justice Misra, who will be the 45th Chief Justice of India, will…
New Delhi, Aug 8 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a plea seeking direction that the control of the Assam Rifles, the country’s oldest paramilitary force, be given to either the…
Mumbai, Aug 8 (IANS) Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut sought to dispel the controversy over the writing of the story and dialogues for upcoming film “Simran”, saying it was actually writer Apurva Asrani who suggested she…
San Francisco, Aug 8 (IANS) WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday offered a job to the Google employee who was fired for writing an anti-diversity memo a job that went viral inside the company and…
New Delhi, Aug 8 (IANS) The case of missing Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Najeeb Ahmed was “not transferred to the CBI for fun”, said the Delhi High Court on Tuesday while slamming the agency…
New Delhi, Aug 8 (IANS) A six-year-old kindergarden student in Uttar Pradesh approached the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday against a poultry farm near his school, saying it emanates an obnoxious smell that is…
Dhaka, Aug 8 (IANS) A Bangladesh court on Tuesday sentenced 14 militants of the banned Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to 20 years imprisonment for their roles in a series of deadly coordinated bomb attacks in…
Kathmandu, Aug 8 (IANS) Hundreds of people from LGBTI (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersexual) communities from across Nepal participated in the annual Pride Parade here on Tuesday. As every year, members of this marginalised…
New Delhi, Aug 8 (IANS) Varnika Kundu, who was stalked in Chandigarh by a BJP leader’s son, slammed the party’s Haryana Deputy President Ramveer Bhatti for his sexist remark on why she was out so…
New Delhi, Aug 8 (IANS) A court here on Tuesday reserved order on a defamation complaint seeking action against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and AAP spokesperson Sanjay Singh over the May 10 attack by…
London, Aug 8 (IANS) Those faceless hackers who operate behind thick curtains of binary language and breach your computer to ask for ransom may not be as anonymous as we think they are, new research…
New Delhi, Aug 8 (IANS) A court here on Tuesday set August 16 to hear Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) plea seeking to quiz former media baron Indrani Mukerjea in a money laundering case allegedly involving Karti…
New Delhi, Aug 8 (IANS) Child sex abuse is a widespread phenomenon which transcends all boundaries across all economic classes, a report on an initiative of civil society members said on Tuesday. “Child sex abuse…
New Delhi, Aug 8 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh Shia Waqf Board on Tuesday filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court saying a mosque can be built in a Muslim-dominated area maintaining a reasonable distance from…
New Delhi, Aug 8 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday announced financial assistance of Rs 10 lakh to the families of each of the three sanitation employees who died while cleaning a gutter…