Canberra, Aug 2 (IANS) Google and Apple have removed over 330 shady financial trading apps from its App Stores following an intervention by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). According to a report in…
Canberra, Aug 2 (IANS) Australians have considerably increased their support for same-sex marriage in the last decade, a report has found. The wide-ranging survey found that 67 per cent of women and 59 per cent…
Los Angeles, Aug 2 (IANS) Hollywood actor George Clooney’s Foundation will contribute $2.25 million to sponsor seven schools in Lebanon, which could help over 3,000 Syrian refugee children back to school this year. This project…
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has formed a six-member committee to make recommendations to the court on “how court proceedings ought to be covered in the media in Delhi”. Setting up…
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which is responsible for issuing Aadhaar cards, on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that government has set up a 10-member committee of experts…
Rome, Aug 1 (IANS/AKI) Italian Coast Guard on Tuesday said they rescued 500 migrants from four inflatable dinghies in the Mediterranean and recovered the bodies of eight people during the operations as the summer crossings…
Amman, Aug 1 (IANS) Jordan Parliament’s lower house on Tuesday repealed a law which allowed rapists to avoid punishment by marrying their victims, the media reported. The Jordanian Cabinet had previously suggested removing the article…
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday questioned the city police over the delay in probing the death of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar here in 2014. A division…
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) The security forces do not discriminate against people with AIDS and HIV positive soldiers are treated in the same manner as soldiers with any other chronic disease, Minister of State…
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) Fifty per cent of working women in Indian metro cities feel that corporate houses lack breastfeeding facilities and nearly 54 per cent quit their jobs after giving birth to ensure…
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) The CBI has constituted a special team to investigate cases of alleged extra-judicial killings by the Army, the Assam Rifles and the Manipur Police in insurgency-hit Manipur, an official said…
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) A day after the government faced embarrassment in Parliament over a bill on the Backward Classes Commission, the BJP on Tuesday accused the Congress of “cheating the OBCs for its…
Agartala, Aug 1 (IANS) Over 30 policemen were injured in Tripura on Tuesday when activists of a tribal party attacked them, alleging a woman has been abducted, the police said. The woman was later found…
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) Delhi’s Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) on Tuesday told a court here that it needs more time to conclude further probe in a case of alleged irregularities in appointments made to the…
Chandigarh, Aug 1 (IANS) A Sikh organisation on Tuesday sought the UN’s intervention in the matter of various countries banning certain religious symbols of the community. The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) has urged…
Jaipur, Aug 1 (IANS) A local court here on Tuesday continued to hear arguments for the second day in succession in a case of violation of the Copyright Act by makers of Akshay Kumar-starrer “Toilet:…
Ranchi, Aug 1 (IANS) The Jharkhand Cabinet on Tuesday gave its approval to the Jharkhand Religious Independence Bill 2017, which aims to ban religious conversion in the state. “The Cabinet has approved Jharkhand Religious Independence…
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) A court here on Tuesday ordered for framing of charges on August 29 against Indian Mujahideen (IM) militant Yasin Bhatkal and others in two cases related to the 2010 terror…
Mumbai, Aug 1 (IANS) A special CBI court here on Tuesday discharged former senior Gujarat Police officers D.G. Vanzara and M.N. Dinesh from the Sohrabuddin A. Sheikh shooting case of 2005 in Ahmedabad. Of the…
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Bombay High Court to decide on a government plea that challenged its order to put a cap on the age of participants as…