Imphal, Sep 22 (IANS) Justice Rakesh Ranjan Prashad was on Thursday sworn in as the new Chief Justice of the Manipur High Court. Governor Najma Heptullah administered the oath of office and secrecy to Justice…
New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) A court here on Thursday granted bail to AAP legislator Amanatullah Khan, who was arrested for alleged sexual harassment of a relative. Khan, who represents Okhla constituency in south Delhi,…
By Brij Khandelwal Aligarh, Sep 22 (IANS) Will the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) vice chancellor, Lt. Gen. Zameer Uddin Shah (retd), exit before the September 26 hearing in the Supreme Court challenging his appointment for…
New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) Nestle India on Thursday sought the Supreme Court’s nod for destroying 550 tonnes of Maggi stocks that have outlived their shelf life. As senior counsel Harish Salve moved the plea…
N0ew Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) A fresh expose on what is being termed as ‘Bahamas Papers’ has listed 475 India-related people, trusts and companies registered in the tax haven, including Vedanta Group’s Anil Agarwal, erstwhile…
Sydney, Sep 22 (IANS) A 12-year-old Australian boy charged with raping a six-year-old girl at a primary school in Sydney pleaded not guilty on Thursday. According to reports, the boy has been charged with three…
Melbourne, Sep 22 (IANS) One of Australia’s biggest banks reached a settlement with an Indian couple on Thursday who sued the company for $1.9 billion. Pankaj and Radhika Oswal alleged that Australia and New Zealand…
Islamabad, Sep 22 (IANS) After the names of 259 Pakistanis with links to offshore companies surfaced in the Panama Papers in May, a new set of leaked documents has emerged carrying the names of 150…
Cairo, Sep 22 (IANS) At least 42 persons were killed after a boat with some 600 refugees on board capsized off the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, authorities said. The accident occurred on Wednesday near Kafr…
Bengaluru, Sep 22 (IANS) Defying the Supreme Court’s latest order, Karnataka on Wednesday night decided not to release more Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu till the state legislature discussed and decided on the inter-state…
Kolkata, Sep 22 (IANS) Justice Girish Chandra Gupta was on Wednesday sworn in as Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court. West Bengal Governor K.N. Tripathi administered the oath of office to Justice Gupta at the…
Cairo, Sep 21 (IANS/AKI) At least 20 people drowned when a packed migrant boat sank off Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, reports from the region said on Wednesday. Coast guard rescued around 150 survivors and recovered some…
Kolkata, Sep 21 (IANS) Expressing anguish that women are often embarrassed to speak up against incidents of violence, megastar Amitabh Bachchan on Wednesday said it is a “pitiable” condition for a woman to have caught…
New York, Sep 21 (IANS) Bangladesh, which has over 500,000 Muslim Rohingyas residing in its refugee camps, has said it is looking forward to working with Myanmar to find a permanent solution to the issue….
Ahmedabad, Sep 21 (IANS) The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday issued notice to the state government on an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) petition that Surat police was not granting the party permission to hold a…
By Amiya Kumar Kushwaha New Delhi, Sep 21 (IANS) A resident of Amritsar has filed an FIR against the oncology department of Max Superspeciality Hospital, Saket, in south Delhi, alleging negligence after he was operated…
Kolkata, Sep 21 (IANS) The central government will use megastar Amitabh Bachchan-starrer “Pink” to promote the FIR law and Zero FIR system, filmmaker Shoojit Sircar said here on Wednesday, observing a lot of young women…
New Delhi, Sep 21 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it hoped the Attorney General will impress upon authorities concerned to revisit the provisions of law pertaining to punishment for rash and negligent driving….
New Delhi, Sep 21 (IANS) The Delhi High Court was informed on Wednesday by the instant messaging app WhatsApp that it does not retain information of its users on its servers once the user deletes…
New Delhi, Sep 21 (IANS) The Supreme Court will hear on September 26 a petition on alleged utter indifference of the civic corporations towards garbage pile-up and outbreak of diseases like chikungunya, dengue and malaria…