Jerusalem, Dec 13 (IANS/AKI) Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini on Wednesday said that the European Union (EU) should treat Italy and France equally over their higher than originally planned budget deficits next year. “I…
Rome, Dec 13 (IANS/AKI) Italy is “closely watching” developments relating to the “tragic” gun attack on a Christmas market in the eastern French city of Strasbourg, Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi tweeted on Wednesday. “Through…
Panaji, Dec 13 (IANS) A scooterist died in the North Goa’s beach village of Anjuna, after ramming into a car owned by Bollywood actress Zareen Khan, police said on Wednesday. The accident occurred late on…
New York, Dec 13 (IANS) US President Donald Trump’s former long-term personal attorney, Michael Cohen was sentenced here on Wednesday to 36 months in prison for tax fraud and campaign finance violations arising from payoffs…
Kolkata, Dec 13 (IANS) A day after the Calcutta High Court division bench turned down its objections to holding talks with two of three BJP representatives, the West Bengal government on Wednesday wrote to the…
Washington, Dec 13 (IANS) US President Donald Trump’s former long-term personal attorney, Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in jail on Wednesday after pleading guilty to a series of crimes, including campaign finance violations,…
New Delhi, Dec 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed its own decisions and commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment of one M.A. Antony from Kerala and that of Rajendra Pralhadrao Wasnik from…
New Delhi, Dec 12 (IANS) Opposing the proposed amendments to the RTI Act and demanding operationalisation of anti-corruption laws, hundreds of activists from various parts of the country gathered here on Wednesday. Shouting the slogan…
Jodhpur, Dec 12 (IANS) The Rajasthan High Court on Wednesday stayed the arrest of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey but refused to quash the FIR against him, lodged by a representative of a Brahmin organisation for…
Shillong, Dec 12 (IANS) The powerful Khasi Students’ Union (KSU) on Wednesday “disagreed” with the Meghalaya High Court order to allow Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis, Christians, Khasis, Jaintias and Garos from Pakistan, Bangladesh and…
Colombo, Dec 12 (IANS) Sri Lanka’s Parliament on Wednesday passed a vote of confidence on ousted Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe with 117 lawmakers from the 225-member Parliament voting in his favour. The vote came as…
New Delhi, Dec 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a plea by low-cost airline IndiGo and SpiceJet challenging the Meghalaya High Court order directing them to start the flights from Shillong…
New Delhi, Dec 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday extended till December 31 the deadline for filing claims and objection by around 40 lakh people who were left out of Assam’s draft National Register…
Yangon, Dec 12 (IANS) Families, friends and colleagues of two Reuters journalists, imprisoned in Myanmar, on Wednesday called for their immediate release one year on from their arrest. Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe…
New Delhi, Dec 12 (IANS) A Delhi court here on Wednesday allowed a joint application filed by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and parliamentarian Sanjay Singh and Ankit Bhardwaj — a state executive member of…
Abu Dhabi, Dec 12 (IANS) A man has been jailed here for 60 days and fined 20,000 dirhams (around Rs 4 lakh) for calling his fianc?e an “idiot” in a WhatsApp message. The man claimed…
Washington, Dec 12 (IANS) A 38-year-old Indian man has been charged with conspiring to smuggle six of his countrymen into the US on commercial airline flights, authorities said. Bhavin Patel was arrested at the Newark…
Vancouver, Dec 12 (IANS) A Canadian court has granted bail to Chinese tech company Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO), who has been accused of helping the firm dodge American sanctions on Iran, while she awaits…
Yangon, Dec 12 (IANS) Two Myanmar journalists, who were named Person of the Year by Time magazine, completed a year in prison on Wednesday. Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were sentenced to…
Islamabad, Dec 12 (IANS) As Washington announced that Pakistan had been added to a list of violators of religious freedoms, Islamabad on Wednesday rejected the “unilateral and politically motivated pronouncement”. “Pakistan rejects the State Department’s…