Chandigarh, Oct 27 (IANS) A senior Congress leader in Punjab on Thursday demanded the scrapping of the state’s Right to Service (RTS) Commission, saying it was a huge burden on the state exchequer. Punjab Congress…
New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) The Supreme Court will on Friday hear a plea by the NOIDA Toll Bridge Company (NTBCL) challenging the Allahabad High Court order making the Delhi-Noida-Direct (DND) Flyway toll free. A…
New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) Women have the highest status in Islam and the Muslim community must see things with a liberal interpretation now, former Chief Election Commissioner of India S.Y. Quraishi said on Thursday….
New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) Two Indian nationals, Maulana Ramzan and Subhash Jangir who allegedly worked for Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), were on Thursday sent to 12-day police remand by the Patiala House Court here….
New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the summons issued by an Uttar Pradesh court to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and AAP leader Kumar Vishwas and issued a notice to…
Kolkata, Oct 27 (IANS) Amid a raging controversy over Indian student visa fraud, a New Zealand agency for international education on Wednesday advised potential applicants to go through government-recognised education agents. Education New Zealand (ENZ),…
New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) on Thursday again issued summons to the CBI and Delhi Police in the suicides of senior bureaucrat B.K. Bansal and his family and expressed…
New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) The Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) on Thursday said it would continue to charge commuters toll tax for travelling on the Delhi-Noida-Direct Flyway (DND) till it receives an official communique to…
Dhaka, Oct 27 (IANS) Bangladesh on Thursday launched the country’s first toll free helpline for children facing violence, abuse and exploitation. The Child Helpline “1098” enables anyone to report child rights violations, child abuse or…
New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) The Supreme Court will on Friday hear a plea by the NOIDA Toll Bridge Company challenging the Allahabad High Court order making the Delhi-Noida-Direct (DND) Flyway toll free. A bench…
By Gurmukh Singh Toronto, Oct 27 (IANS) A bill to proclaim October as Hindu Heritage Month annually in Canada’s Ontario province has been introduced in the provincial assembly here. Ontario is home to more than…
Islamabad, Oct 27 (IANS) The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday ordered the capital administration not to place any containers or block roads during the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI)’s scheduled “lockdown” of Islamabad on November 2….
New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the summons issued against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and AAP leader Kumar Vishvas by a court in Uttar Pradesh and issued notice to…
New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Thursday dismissed an appeal of Tata group-run Indian Hotels Company Ltd (IHCL), which runs the luxury Taj Mansingh Hotel, challenging auctioning of the property by…
New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday announced that he will immediately implement the Supreme Court direction saying wages of temporary staff should be on par with regular ones. He…
Messina (Italy), Oct 26 (IANS/AKI) A total of 1,050 migrants arrived in the Sicilian port of Messina on Wednesday aboard an Italian coastguard vessel after they were rescued from the Mediterranean. The corpses of six…
New Delhi, Oct 26 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Thursday will pass its order on an appeal of Tata group-run Indian Hotels Company Ltd (IHCL), which runs the luxury Taj Mansingh Hotel, challenging auctioning…
Vatican City, Oct 26 (IANS/AKI) Fences are being erected in some countries to keep out migrants and refugees, but this only aids the criminal organisations who traffick human beings, Pope Francis said Wednesday. “Today, the…
Reggio Calabria (Italy), Oct 26 (IANS/AKI) The corpses of 25 migrants who perished in a shipwreck off Libya were due to reach Italy aboard a medical charity’s rescue ship along with 246 migrants picked up…
New Delhi, Oct 26 (IANS) The city police on Wednesday informed the Delhi High Court that from January 1, 2017 the ‘panic button’ in every mobile phones will be introduced, to help people in distress,…