Srinagar, Sep 8 (IANS) Two policemen were injured on Friday as security forces tried to control a mob of youths pelting stones in south Kashmir’s Anantnag town, who also torched a police vehicle. “A police…
Panaji, Sep 8 (IANS) Goa Congress President Shantaram Naik on Friday alleged that right-wing forces could be behind the murder of Bengaluru journalist Gauri Lankesh. “I strongly feel that right-wing forces are involved, considering that…
Kolkata, Sep 8 (IANS) To Czech writer-researcher Martin Hribek, Durga Puja epitomises the “condensation of creative energy” and he believes that even if the traditional forms of worship were to somehow fade into oblivion, the…
Sirsa/Chandigarh, Sep 8 (IANS) Security agencies and district authorities began a search operation at the Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters near Haryana’s Sirsa town on Friday amid tight security and curfew in the area. The search…
Berlin, Sep 8 (IANS) German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin gathered for a meeting that marked the end of the latter’s two-day trip to Germany, which had celebrated their bilateral relations. Merkel…
Cairo, Sep 8 (IANS) The Israeli army declined to confirm responsibility for a missile attack on a Syrian military facility that killed two people, after Syrian military sources attributed the assault to Israeli aircraft. An…
Bogota, Sep 7 (IANS/AKI) Pope Francis urged Colombias leaders on Thursday to set aside “hatred and vengeance” and “listen to the poor, to those who suffer” in a nation that is emerging from Latin America’s…
Chandigarh, Sep 7 (IANS) Hours before authorities and security agencies are likely to start a search and sanitisation operation inside the sprawling Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters campus near Sirsa town in Haryana, the sect’s mouthpiece…
New Delhi, Sep 7 (IANS) The central government on Thursday allowed import of three lakh tonnes of raw sugar at 25 per cent duty in the wake of low availability in the domestic market and…
Guwahati, Sep 7 (IANS) Art of Living (AoL) founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Thursday said that he is in touch with Ulfa’s anti-talk faction led by its commander in chief Paresh Baruah and the…
New Delhi, Sep 7 (IANS) Around 50 organisations have come together in a civil society initiative under which volunteers will visit places where lynchings have been reported and meet the affected families. The month-long journey…
Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 7 (IANS) The Catholic Church in Kerala is upset with the new liquor policy of the state’s LDF government, as closed bars are being allowed to reopen despite assurances from CPI-M General Secretary…
Panaji, Sep 7 (IANS) The North Goa district administration on Thursday extended the ban on Mangalore-based Hindu outfit Sri Rama Sene chief Pramod Muthalik by 60 days with effect from September 6. “The step has…
Imphal Sep 7 (IANS) Muslim organisations in Manipur have demanded the resignation of Deputy Chief Minister Yumnam Joykumar on moral grounds after his son posted a message on Facebook on Eid-ul-Adha ridiculing the ‘qurbani’ (sacrifice)….
Washington, Sep 7 (IANS) The Washington National Cathedral has announced the immediate removal of two stained glass windows featuring Confederate leaders Robert Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. The windows were installed in 1953 and donated…
New Delhi, Sep 7 (IANS) Celebrity hair style Jawed Habib, who has apologised for hurting religious sentiments with a Durga Puja ad, says it was a “blunder” but feels the “unethical” words people are using…
Washington, Sep 7 (IANS) A coalition of 16 US attorneys general has sued President Donald Trump’s administration’s decision to end a programme which shields more than 800,000 undocumented immigrants who arrived in the country as…
Bogota, Sep 7 (IANS) Pope Francis has begun his five-day pastoral visit to Colombia, officia;s said. On Wednesday, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, his wife Maria Clemencia Rodriguez, Apostolic Nuncio to Colombia Ettore Balestrero and…
Geneva, Sep 7 (IANS) The Syrian regime used chemical weapons on at least four occasions this year, including in a sarin gas attack that left dozens of civilians dead, the UN unveiled in a report….
Damascus, Sep 7 (IANS) A total of 978 civilians have been killed over the past three months by US-led airstrikes on Syria’s northern city of Raqqa, a monitor group reported on Wednesday. The death toll…