Toronto, Jan 27 (IANS) Inderjit Singh Reyat, the lone person convicted for the 1985 Air India Kanishka airliner bombing, will soon be released from prison in British Columbia. Air India Kanishka’s Flight 182 from Montreal…
Washington, Jan 27 (IANS) After ordering celebrity yoga guru Bikram Choudhury to pay $924,500 in compensatory damages in a lawsuit for sexually harassing and firing a female employee, a US court has told Choudhury to…
Cairo, Jan 27 (IANS/AKI) An Egyptian court has sentenced secular writer Fatima Naoot to three years in prison and a fine of $2,550 after being found guilty of insulting Islam, daily Al-Ahram reported. Naoot, a…
Naples (Italy), Jan 27 (IANS/AKI) Italian tax police have seized assets worth 12 million euros from 58 individuals targeted by a probe into alleged tax evasion at dozens of clubs in the top three football…
Islamabad, Jan 27 (IANS) The Pakistani maritime security agency has arrested 45 Indian fishermen for fishing in the country’s waters, an official said. The Indian fishermen were arrested while fishing in Pakistani limits of the…
Lahore, Jan 27 (IANS) A Pakistani fan of Indian cricketer Virat Kohli was taken into custody for raising the tricolour on his roof in Punjab province. The police, who arrested the fan on Tuesday, identified…
New York, Jan 26 (IANS) A team of US researchers has designed a material that can be used to encapsulate human pancreatic cells before transplanting them. In tests on mice, they showed that these encapsulated…
Los Angeles, Jan 26 (IANS) Sofia Vergara has filed a lawsuit against a beauty products company for using her face without a contract. She says she usually charges $15 million for such endorsements. Vergara claimed…
Washington, Jan 26 (IANS) Disney World has been hit by two class action suits accusing it and two outsourcing firms of conspiring to replace workers with less costly foreign ones using H-1B visas, mostly from…
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy. (File Photo: IANS) Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 25 (IANS) Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Monday appeared before the one-member commission of Justice (retd) G. Sivarajan probing the Rs.70 million solar scam…
Chennai, Jan 25 (IANS) The Madras High Court on Monday issued notice to the Tamil Nadu government and ordered the preservation till January 27 of the body of T. Monisha, one of the three girl…
New Delhi: Security beefed-up outside Delhi Secretariat in the wake of CBI raids on 14 locations in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, including the office of the secretary to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwall; on Dec…
(Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Jan 25 (IANS) The Congress on Monday challenged in the Supreme Court the union cabinet’s decision to impose president’s rule in Arunachal Pradesh. The cabinet on Sunday approved president’s rule in…
Agartala/Aizawl, Jan 25 (IANS) The central government has alerted the northeastern states over possible terror attacks ahead of the Republic Day on Tuesday, a police official said on Monday. “The home ministry has alerted the…
New Delhi, Jan 25 (IANS) A Kathmandu-bound SpiceJet flight was stopped from taking off here on Monday and its passengers and crew were evacuated following a bomb threat. Flight 9W263 was about to take off…
Islamabad, Jan 25 (IANS) Pakistan has turned down India’s proposal to jointly interrogate Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar and other suspects linked with Pathankot airbase attack, official sources said. Authorities in Pakistan have detained Masood Azhar…
Pakistani ghazal singer Ustad Ghulam Ali. (File Photo: IANS) Mumbai, Jan 25 (IANS) The makers of Bollywood film “Ghar Vapsi” have demanded police protection for Pakistani ghazal maestro Ghulam Ali, who will arrive here on…
New Delhi: Republic Day preparation underway at Rajpath in New Delhi on Jan 23, 2016. (Photo: Sunil Majumdar/IANS) New Delhi, Jan 24 (IANS) Keeping in mind the Pathankot airbase attack and the arrest of a…
Patna, Jan 24 (IANS) A day after Bihar’s ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) suspended its legislator for allegedly misbehaving with a couple on a running train, the Government Railway Police (GRP) arrested him on Sunday, police…
Mumbai: Actress Nandita Das during the Khidkiyaan Theatre Festival in Mumbai on January 17, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Mumbai, Jan 24 (IANS) Actress Nandita Das, who believes her 1996 film “Fire” showcasing homosexuality planted the seed…