New York, June 27 (IANS) New York was decked in rainbow colours as thousands marched through the city in a parade marked by gay pride celebrations and mourning for the recent Orlando massacre. According to…
Vatican City, June 27 (IANS) Pope Francis said that the Roman Catholic Church should apologise to gay people for the way it has treated them. He told reporters on his plane returning from Armenia on…
Islamabad, June 27 (IANS) At least 50 clerics have issued a fatwa (religious decree) that marriage with a transgender person is now lawful in Pakistan, a media report said on Monday. The fatwa, released on…
Kolkata, June 27 (IANS) Amid the raging controversy over the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) allegedly turning into a moral policing body, leading Bengal film actress Swastika Mukherjee said most woman characters bear the…
London, June 26 (IANS) British police on Sunday started investigating various incidents involving racist messages against the country’s Polish community that appeared after the ‘Brexit’ win in Thursday’s European Union referendum. A spokesperson for the…
Kolkata, June 26 (IANS) The driver of a mini truck who mowed down a woman while trying to abduct her in West Bengal’s Hooghly district has been arrested, police said on Sunday. The incident occurred…
Shimla, June 26 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh government is soliciting public opinion on how best to tackle the ‘monkey menace’ which has caused crop losses worth hundreds of crores of rupees in recent years, Forest…
Jerusalem, June 26 (IANS) An Israeli court on Sunday gave life imprisonment to an ultra-Orthodox Jew for murdering a girl and attempting to murder five others during a 2015 Jerusalem gay pride parade. The court…
Agartala, June 25 (IANS) Around 250 Bangladeshi nationals, who tried to enter Tripura on Saturday returned back from the border, police said. These Bangladeshi Hindu tribals were evicted from their habitation by the forest guards…
Ghaziabad, June 25 (IANS) Three sants who visited Kairana as part of a fact-finding team complained of receiving threatening calls on their way back home in Ghaziabad, police said on Saturday. The three sants, Pramod…
New Delhi, June 25 (IANS) Urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi to declare July 1 as Daughters Day in memory of Indo-American astronaut Kalpana Chawla, the Public Relations Council of India (PRCI) has launched a campaign…
Riyadh, June 25 (IANS) The Saudi Interior Ministry on Saturday warned of human trafficking charges against recruitment agents in Tanzania and Burundi. The Public Relations Director of the Interior Ministry, Major-General Mohammed Al Marool, urged…
Patna, June 25 (IANS) Bihar’s Class 12 “topper” in Arts Rubi Rai, who had said political science is all about cooking, was arrested on Saturday when she appeared for a re-test at the Bihar School…
New Delhi, June 25 (IANS) As Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Dinesh Mohaniya was whisked away by police in the midst of a press conference, the AAP accused the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
Panaji, June 25 (IANS) The Congress in Goa has demanded that the Ministry of External Affairs should protect the interest of Goans living in the UK on Portuguese passports, in view of Brexit. “I think…
Kozhikode/Bengaluru, June 25 (IANS) The Karnataka Police has arrested three female nursing students for allegedly ragging and forcing their junior, Aswathi K.P., to drink a disinfectant, reducing her to a critical condition. Lakshmi, Athira and…
Brasilia, June 25 (IANS) Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who is currently suspended from office in an ongoing impeachment process, will provide a written statement in a corruption case where she was called as a witness….
Kuwait City, June 25 (IANS) Two dozen bomb-sniffing dogs were killed by an American-owned security firm in Kuwait after its contract with a local oil company expired. The owners say they killed 24 dogs “humanely”…
Colombo, June 25 (IANS) Sri Lanka’s parliament on Friday voted in favour of a Right to Information (RTI) bill which had failed to get approval for several years. The RTI bill was unanimously passed in…
New Delhi, June 24 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission on Friday issued a notice to Karnataka over reports that a Dalit nursing student from Kerala was forced by her seniors to drink phenyl while…