By Garima Tyagi Kuala Lumpur, Sep 21 (IANS) Twenty three-year-old Mohammad Imran, a Rohingya who has grown up in a refugee camp in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar after his family fled violence in Myanmar, says he…
New Delhi, Sep 21 (IANS) Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to urgently pass the Women’s Reservation Bill in the Lok Sabha where the BJP has a majority. In a…
New Delhi, Sep 21 (IANS) Police on Thursday told the Delhi High Court that it may file the final report in the 2014 death case of Sunanda Pushkar, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor’s wife, within eight…
New Delhi, Sep 21 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested retired Orissa High Court Judge I.M. Quddusi for helping an Uttar Pradesh-based educational trust barred by the government from admitting medical students, an…
Alappuzha (Kerala), Sep 21 (IANS) The office of the Alappuzha bureau of Asianet TV channel in Kerala was attacked on Thursday after the news network reported alleged involvement of a state minister in land encroachment….
Washington, Sep 21 (IANS) The US Senate is slated to vote on a new Obamacare repeal bill next week in an attempt to take advantage of a legislative exemption that expires on September 30 whereby…
New York, Sep 21 (IANS) The US will provide a humanitarian aid package worth $32 million to the Rohingya Muslim minority who have fled violence in Myanmar and crossed into neighbouring Bangladesh, the State Department…
Rome, Sep 20 (IANS/AKI) Police on Wednesday said they had arrested a Pakistani asylum-seeker in central Italy accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl. Police put the 35-year-old man under house arrest in Pistoia at…
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) Stressing that the country will develop only with the uplift of the most downtrodden sections, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu here on Wednesday said government schemes like Make in India, Skill…
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) A PIL filed in the Supreme Court challenges the execution of death sentence by hanging, as the petitioner describes it as barbaric, inhuman and cruel as well as violative of…
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) The CBI has filed a corruption case against a retired Orissa High Court Judge I.M. Quddusi for helping an Uttar Pradesh-based educational trust, barred by the government from admitting medical…
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) In a first of its kind order, the Supreme Court on Wednesday directed Unitech to pay the litigation cost to home buyers who had succeeded before the grievance redressal commission…
Bhubaneswar/New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) The Orissa High Court Bar Association on Wednesday went on a strike in protest against a CBI raid conducted by “mistake” at the official residence of a High Court Judge…
Kolkata, Sep 20 (IANS) Asserting that there were no specific instructions from the central government on the Rohingya refugees, the BSF on Wednesday said there were no new cases of their infiltration into India this…
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday pulled up newly elected Delhi University Students’ Union President Rocky Tuseed and others for non-appearance in a matter related to defacement of properties during…
Bhubaneswar, Sep 20 (IANS) The Orissa High Court Bar Association on Wednesday went on a strike in protest against a CBI raid conducted by “mistake” at the official residence of a High Court Judge the…
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice to Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) President Rocky Tuseed and the University on a plea alleging that he concealed various facts while…
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that only Advocates-on-Record (AoRs) will be allowed to make mentioning of the matters for an early hearing or listing, thereby excluding the senior lawyers…
Nay Pyi Taw, Sep 20 (IANS) Myanmar will resettle refugees displaced at home and abroad due to conflicts in the country’s northern Rakhine state, said Minister of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement U Win Myat…
Kolkata, Sep 20 (IANS) The West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBCPCR) which has strongly opposed the Central government’s stand on the deportation of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar, on Wednesday said it has…