By Sahana Ghosh Kolkata, July 29 (IANS) An indefatigable crusader for tribal rights, eminent litterateur Mahasweta Devi was keen to be laid to rest at Tejgadh, a tribal village in Gujarat and also the site…
Lucknow, July 29 (IANS) A sessions court in Jaunpur on Friday held a Bangladeshi national guilty in the Shramjeevi Express train blast case. The quantum of sentence will be pronounced on Saturday. Twelve persons were…
New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) The pathetic conditions in which hens are kept, in tiny wire cages without enough space to move around, was raised in the Supreme Court on Friday. Senior counsel K.K. Venugopal…
New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday asked Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar for a status report on the ground situation in the Kashmir Valley. Seeking the status report, a bench of Chief…
Kolkata, July 29 (IANS) Dissatisfied with the Kolkata Police for calling the mysterious death of Aabesh Dasgupta an “accident”, the family of the teenager on Friday knocked on the doors of West Bengal Chief Minister…
Beijing, July 29 (IANS) China has become the first major country to legalise online car-booking services nationwide slated to be enforced from November. Major industry players hailed the new regulation as a milestone in the…
Amritsar, July 29 (IANS) A court in Amritsar on Friday granted bail to Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal and two other party leaders in a defamation case filed…
By Abhishek Waghmare Foreign funding for Indian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) doubled in 2014-15 over the previous year, but with 10,000 NGO registrations cancelled in 2015, foreign contributions are likely to drop, according the latest data…
United Nations, July 29 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that South Sudan remains precariously poised on the brink of an abyss, and warned that the promises of the new state for peace, justice and…
New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday received a copy of a coffee table book âIndiaâs Most Powerful Womenâ at Rashtrapati Bhavan, an official statement said. On the occasion, the…
New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday appointed senior counsel Ashok Desai as amicus curiae in the hearing of a petition by the Uttar Pradesh government contesting the Allahabad High Court’s decision…
Mumbai, July 28 (IANS) A Special MCOCA Court on Thursday found 12 accused, including LeT operative and 26/11 plotter Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal, guilty and acquitted eight others in the sensational 2006 Aurangabad…
New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) A Delhi court on Thursday granted bail to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislator Amanatullah Khan, arrested on charges of threatening a woman, and directed him not to create any law…
New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) The Indian embassy in Qatar is making preparations for an appeal to the country’s Supreme Court on behalf of two Indians on death row and a third serving a life…
Chandigarh, July 28 (IANS) A court in Punjab on Thursday rejected the bail plea of Naresh Yadav, an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislator from Delhi. Yadav was arrested by Punjab Police on Sunday in connection…
New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) India is in touch with the Indonesian leadership to get clemency for an Indian who is set to be executed for drug trafficking. Indian embassy officials in Jakarta are trying…
Lucknow, July 28 (IANS) The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Thursday refused to quash the FIR lodged against former BJP state Vice-President Daya Shankar Singh and asked the state government to respond…
New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) The Supreme Court will hear on Friday a plea by some doctors of the Army Medical Corps (AMC) who want their retirement age to be raised to 65 years from…
New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) A Delhi court on Thursday granted bail to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislator Amanatullah Khan, arrested on charges of threatening a woman. Additional Sessions Judge Raj Kumar Tripathi granted bail…
Kolkata, July 28 (IANS) Eminent writer and social activist Mahasweta Devi, a crusader for the rights of tribals and the oppressed, died at a city nursing home on Thursday following prolonged old-age complications. She was…