New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday that family values, acceptance of diversity, and environmental consciousness were three of Indias greatest traditions that must be nurtured. Interacting with a 25-member…
New Delhi/Ahmedabad, Aug 3 (IANS) Smarting after the Supreme Court’s refusal on Thursday to stay an Election Commission notification to introduce the None of the Above (NOTA) option for the August 8 Rajya Sabha election…
New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday filed an application before the Delhi High Court seeking to restrain Republic TV from making defamatory publications against him with regard to the death…
New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) The Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime in effect from last month has reduced the incidence of tax on coal to 5 per cent, as compared to a cumulative tax…
Islamabad, Aug 3 (IANS) The Islamabad High Court has agreed to hear on Monday a petition calling for the names of ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family members to be added to the…
New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) A court here on Thursday took cognizance of a chargesheet against Sukesh Chandershekhar, an aide of AIADMK Deputy General Secretary T.T.V. Dinakaran, in a bribery case. Special Judge Poonam Chaudhary…
Accra, Aug 3 (IANS) A court here has overturned a decision by the Interior Minister to deport an Indian for allegedly obtaining a fake marriage certificate to stay in the country. In his ruling earlier…
Jaipur, Aug 3 (IANS) Nikhil Dey, an RTI activist associated with NGO Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan, and three others have been acquitted in a 19-year-old case by a court in Ajmer district of Rajasthan. The…
Doha, Aug 3 (IANS) Qatar, facing a Saudi-led boycott, has approved a draft law to grant residency cards to qualified foreigners who live in the country, a media report said. The move would be the…
Wellington, Aug 3 (IANS) The New Zealand Parliament on Thursday passed a bill to strengthen the country’s existing anti-money laundering act. The Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Amendment Bill will help prevent…
Dubai, Aug 3 (IANS) Indian job-seekers should not come to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on visit visas and must authenticate their employment offers and entry permit visas before heading to the country, the Indian…
New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) The government has prepared a draft law to check frauds by chit fund companies which operate in more states than one, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said in the Lok Sabha…
Beijing, Aug 3 (IANS) The widow of Chinese political dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo is currently in Beijing under surveillance and her exact whereabouts remain unknown. Several friends told Efe news that…
New York, Aug 3 (IANS) Indian snowshoe athlete Tanveer Hussain Parra has been indicted in the US for allegedly having inappropriate contact with a 12-year-old girl. The Essex County grand jury charged the 25-year-old with…
Lucknow, Aug 3 (IANS) Muslim clerics in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday termed as “unfair” the state government’s decision to make registration of all marriages mandatory. Clerics from the Darul Uloom Deoband Islamic school came out…
Sydney, Aug 3 (IANS) Racist graffiti targeting Chinese students found in an Australian university has resulted in widespread outrage, a media report said on Thursday. The words “kill Chinese” were inscribed above a swastika in…
New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stay an Election Commission notification to introduce the “None of the Above” (NOTA) option for the coming Rajya Sabha election in Gujarat. A…
Los Angeles, Aug 3 (IANS) A US federal court has charged a California-based businessman with smuggling military equipment to Syria. In an indictment on Wednesday, Rasheed Al Jijakli was accused of illegally providing rifle scopes,…
San Francisco, Aug 3 (IANS) Globally, the number of women working at Facebook has risen to 35 per cent, up from 33 in 2016 while their number in the technical department has risen by two…
Moscow, Aug 3 (IANS) Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said the new sanctions imposed by the US are tantamount to declaring a “full-scale trade war” against Moscow and the administration demonstrated complete impotence in the…