Ranchi, July 13 (IANS) Jharkhand’s Principal Commissioner of Income Tax Tapas Kumar Dutta, arrested for corruption, was on Thursday remanded to four days’ CBI custody. This came after Dutta, who was arrested on Wednesday night,…
Gurugram, July 13 (IANS) Haryana Agriculture Minister O.P. Dhankar on Thursday said that a seed bill will be introduced for the first time in the next session of the state Assembly. Dhankar has instructed his…
Kolkata, July 13 (IANS) West Bengal Labour Minister Moloy Ghatak on Thursday stayed away from an Employee’s State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) event here, which was decried by Union Ministers Bandaru Dattatreya and Babul Supriyo. Union…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) Former Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President Anurag Thakur submitted an unconditional apology to the Supreme Court on Thursday. The apex court had on July 7 directed…
Beijing, July 13 (IANS) Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate and dissident Liu Xiaobo died on Thursday of terminal cancer at a hospital in the country’s north, authorities said. Liu died at the age of 61…
Islamabad, July 13 (IANS) Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday rejected calls for his resignation at an emergency Cabinet meeting to chart out a counter to the Panamagate probe panel’s report that recommended the…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) Delhi High Court on Thursday reserved its judgement on a plea filed by Madhya Pradesh Minister Narottam Mishra, challenging his disqualification by the Election Commission (EC). Justice Indermeet Kaur reserved…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) Delhi High Court on Thursday sought a report from authorities in the national capital on the number of vacant post of food inspectors, which is hampering an effective check on…
New Delhi, July 13 (July) The Supreme Court on Thursday took exception to Assam Chief Minister Sarbanand Sonowal’s interference with the preparation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) draft in the state. Sonowal had…
Rome, July 13 (IANS) Over 4,000 migrants have been rescued in the Central Mediterranean in the past 24 hours, raising the number of arrivals to Italy to 90,000 since the start of the year, according…
Beijing, July 13 (IANS) Friends of Chinas most famous political prisoner Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo on Thursday said they feared he was entering his final hours as the White House renewed its call for the…
Ranchi, July 13 (IANS) RJD supremo Lalu Prasad on Thursday appeared in a Central Bureau of Intelligence (CBI) court here in a fodder scam case. According to his lawyer, witnesses were produced by Lalu in…
London, July 13 (IANS) The British government is set to publish a bill on Thursday which will end the supremacy of the European Union (EU) law in the UK, the media reported. Known as the…
By Devanik Saha Over the next seven years, India could save $5 billion (Rs 33,500 crore) in healthcare and related costs if it eliminates child marriage and early childbirth, according to a new report by…
San Francisco, July 13 (IANS) Pitching for a free and open Internet for everyove, Facebook, Google, Amazon and other tech giants participated in a day-long online protest organised by advocacy groups in the US. Titled…
Tokyo, July 13 (IANS) Japan on Thursday executed two death row inmates, the Ministry of Justice announced. According to Kyodo News, Masakatsu Nishikawa, 61, one of the executed inmates, was convicted of murder in 1991,…
Bengaluru, July 13 (IANS) AIADMK General Secretary and convict V.K. Sasikala Natarajan was on Wednesday accused of bribing Karnataka Director General of Prisons (DGP) Satyanarayana Rao and city central jail officials for undue favours. “Sasikala…
New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice to Delhi government on a plea seeking implementation of revised minimum wage rates that will benefit over 60 lakh workers. A division…
New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) The Committee of Administrators (CoA) has suggested the names of former India captain Kapil Dev, former Test opener Anshuman Gaekwad and wicket-keeper Bharath Reddy and former Home Secretary G.K. Pillai…
New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday chided the Election Commission for retracting its earlier position supporting a plea for lifetime ban on convicted lawmakers from contesting elections. “It is within the…