Agartala, Dec 12 (IANS) Ahead of the February Tripura Assembly polls, the Left Front government on Tuesday announced 24 months of maternity leave to its women employees — for the first two children. The weekly…
New Delhi, Dec 12 (IANS) The NGT on Tuesday directed the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) and the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) to submit by Wednesday a detailed report regarding Phase II of the…
New Delhi, Dec 12 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday ordered for the completion of a waste-to-energy plant in Jammu and Kashmir within 18 months, after which Rs 50,000 per day will be…
Thiruvananthapuram/Kozhikode, Dec 12 (IANS) Search and rescue personnel on Tuesday recovered the bodies of eight fishermen from the sea off the Kozhikode coast in Kerala, official sources said, taking the death toll in cyclone Ockhi…
New Delhi, Dec 12 (IANS) Stating that there has been a sharp increase in the number of British visas issued to Indians, the British High Commission said on Tuesday that Indians get more work visas…
Imphal, Dec 12 (IANS) The Manipur government and the people on Tuesday marked the Women’s War Day and paid homage to the women activists who had launched a crusade against the oppressive British administration in…
Chennai, Dec 12 (IANS) A court in Tamil Nadu’s Tirupur district on Tuesday sentenced six people to death in an honour killing. Of the six, one is the father of the girl, S. Kausalya, whose…
Chennai, Dec 12 (IANS) Opposing the Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance (FRDI) Bill, the All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA) has said it is planning a strike if the Centre proceeds on the proposed legislation….
New Delhi, Dec 12 (IANS) Real estate major Unitech on Tuesday sought the suspension of an NCLT order allowing the government’s takeover of the company. The company told the Supreme Court that the National Company…
New Delhi, Dec 12 (IANS) A Delhi court here on Tuesday granted bail to meat exporter Moin Akhtar Qureshi, who was arrested in a money laundering case. Special Judge Arun Bharadwaj granted bail to Qureshi…
Kochi (Kerala), Dec 12 (IANS) A sessions court in Kerala on Tuesday found Ameerul Islam, a migrant labourer from Assam, guilty of the rape and murder of a young law student in 2016 in Ernakulam….
By Arul Louis New York, Dec 12 (IANS) Blaming a “lax” immigration system for the bomb attack here by a Bangladeshi immigrant, US President Donald Trump has renewed calls to end immigration based on family…
Washington, Dec 12 (IANS) The US has recorded a significant reduction in “irregular migration” from Cuba since the end of a longstanding migration policy in January, the State Department has announced. From fiscal year 2016…
By Arul Louis United Nations, Dec 12 (IANS) At an awards ceremony honouring six serving and former diplomats and international civil servants for their contributions to world peace and development, the UN was hailed as…
By Arul Louis United Nations, Dec 12 (IANS) At an awards ceremony honouring six serving and former diplomats and international civil servants for their contributions to world peace and development, the UN was hailed as…
Washington, Dec 12 (IANS) US President Donald Trump authorised the acting NASA administrator Robert M. Lightfoot Jr. to “lead an innovative space exploration programme to send American astronauts back to the moon, and eventually Mars”…
Kiev, Dec 12 (IANS) A district court here in the Ukrainian capital has rejected state prosecutor’s request to place former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili under house arrest and released him from custody. Saakashvili, now a…
Tokyo, Dec 12 (IANS) Former US Army soldier Charles Robert Jenkins, who defected to North Korea in the 1960s and later lived in Japan, has died at the age of 77, a media report said…
United Nations, Dec 12 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said the overall human rights situation has improved over the decades but problems remain. “Over seven decades, humanity has achieved considerable progress. People around the…
Washington, Dec 12 (IANS) A US federal judge on Monday ruled that the White House must accept transgender military recruits by January 1, 2018. US President Donald Trump announced the ban on transgender military enlistment…