New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) Eminent lawyer Prashant Bhushan on Friday accused President of Dental Council of India (DCI), Dibyendu Mazumder, of a host of irregularities in running the body, including arbitrary allocations of seats…
New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) The government is in the process of drafting a Memorandum of Procedure (MoP) for appointment of judges for the higher judiciary on the basis of Supreme Court judgment favouring transparent,…
Melbourne, Aug 19 (IANS) An Australian court on Friday turned down the application of an Indigenous group from Down Under challenging the mining leases awarded to India-based energy major Adani Group’s $21 billion Carmichael coal…
Chandigarh, Aug 19 (IANS) After being in a denial mode earlier to later admitting a “possibility”, the Haryana government on Friday told the Punjab and Haryana High Court that some rape incidents could have taken…
New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal on Friday pulled up the Uttar Pradesh and the central governments on pollution in the Ganga river, especially due to industrial discharge from the tanneries, saying…
Kolkata, Aug 19 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Friday extended the interim stay on the West Bengal government ordered probe into the Narada sting operation in which several leaders of the ruling Trinamool Congress…
New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) Nearly 75 per cent of dispensaries, 60 per cent of hospitals and 80 per cent of doctors are located in urban areas, serving only 28 per cent of the Indian…
New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) India has formally requested UN agency World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) to open an office in the country and is ready to offer premises free of cost for this purpose,…
Rome, Aug 19 (IANS/AKI) Italy should show solidarity with migrants landing on its shores and help improve conditions in their homelands, the country’s President Sergio Mattarella said on Friday. “No one can wish for an…
New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) leader Kanhaiya Kumar and two others on Friday moved applications for regular bail before a Delhi court, which will be heard on Saturday. The…
Ghaziabad/New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) Union Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma on Friday apologised for the threashing his personal staff gave to a society watchman in Ghaziabad where he had gone to visit his sister on…
New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Friday asked Payal Abdullah, the estranged wife of former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, to “gracefully” vacate the government accommodation allotted to Omar…
New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has deplored the deaths in the current unrest in Jammu and Kashmir and also offered his good offices to facilitate dialogue between India and Pakistan to…
Shimla, Aug 19 (IANS) Chief Justice of India T.S. Thakur on Friday said that clearing the huge backlog of cases across the country was a national challenge for the judiciary, and pointed out that such…
New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) A court here on Friday granted the Central Bureau of INvestigation one month to secure official sanction to try government servants charge-sheeted last week for causing a loss of Rs…
New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) Paving the way for trial in a coal block allocation case, a CBI court here on Friday framed charges of cheating and criminal conspiracy against former Coal Secretary H.C. Gupta…
Shimla, Aug 19 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh assembly may ratify the constitution amendment bill on Goods and Services Tax (GST) during its monsoon session beginning on August 22, an official said here on Friday. With…
New York, Aug 19 (IANS) A US federal judge sentenced Babulal Bob Bera, the 83-year-old father of the only Indian American Congressman, Amerish Ami Bera, on Thursday to a year and a day in prison…
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 19 (IANS) Swimmers from the US Olympic delegation — Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger — were released after questioning for four hours in a Brazilian police station regarding an alleged assault…
New Delhi: India Wrestler Wrestler Narsingh Yadav addresses a press conference after being exonerated of doping charges by the National Anti Doping Agency (NADA) panel in New Delhi, on Aug 1, 2016. (Photo: IANS) By…