Kolkata, Sep 18 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said tea garden owners in the Darjeeling hills have been asked to resume operations and pay bonus dues to workers for 2016-17. “The…
New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court not to interfere in the Rohingya issue as the move to deport them was a policy decision in the country’s larger interests…
Shimla, Sep 18 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh has no tourist accommodations in far-off areas. Rural home-stays that started in 2008 are driving tourists to the interiors and are not a commercial activity, the Himachal Pradesh High…
Panchkula (Haryana), Sep 18 (IANS) Final arguments in a murder case against Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and others continued on Monday with the statements of 59 witnesses being read out in…
Dhaka, Sep 18 (IANS) The Bangladesh police on Monday broke up a gathering of around 20,000 members of an Islamist organisation staging a march towards the Myanmar embassy in Dhaka calling for an end to…
By Garima Tyagi Kuala Lumpur, Sep 18 (IANS) As thousands of Rohingya Muslims flee persecution in their country, an international peoples tribunal on alleged atrocities and state crimes against the Rohingya, Kachins and other ethnic…
Baghdad, Sep 18 (IANS) Iraq’s Supreme Court on Monday issued an order to stop the independence referendum in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region slated for September 25, officials said. In a statement, the court said the…
Shimla, Sep 18 (IANS) Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday said Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh had no time for the state as he was busy fighting cases against him in courts….
Manchester, Sep 18 (IANS) Former England football team captain Wayne Rooney was on Monday handed a two-year driving ban after he admitted to drink-driving. John Temperley, the district judge at Stockport magistrates court, said he…
Kochi, Sep 18 (IANS) A court on Monday turned down Malayalam actor Dileep’s fourth bail plea in the actress abduction case even as the Kerala High Court posted for next week the anticipatory bail pleas…
Los Angeles, Sep 18 (IANS) The 69th Primetime Emmy Awards here saw “Saturday Night Live” — a platform for political satire — and two women-oriented dramas win big, even as US President Donald Trump remained…
New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court not to interfere in the Rohingya issue as it was a policy decision to deport them and that some of them were…
New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu government on Monday told the Supreme Court that there were no fresh anti-NEET agitations in the state after it was banned by the top court on September…
Madrid, Sep 18 (IANS) M?decins Sans Fronti?res (MSF) or Doctors Without Borders on Monday urged Myanmar to grant international humanitarian organisations unrestricted and independent access to the conflict-torn Rakhine state to enable provision of humanitarian…
New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) A final decision on the fate of Rohingya refugees in India will be taken by the Supreme Court, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Monday. He said the matter…
Washington, Sep 18 (IANS) Chelsea Manning, the transgender US soldier convicted of espionage for leaking national security secrets, has said that she was not a traitor as her critics have claimed and did what she…
New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) Senior IPS officer Y.C. Modi, who was part of a Supreme Court-appointed probe team in the 2002 Gujarat riots cases, will be the new chief of the NIA. The decision…
New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that the influx of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar started in 2012 as the apex court directed an October 3 hearing on a…
Washington, Sep 18 (IANS) US President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen is expected to appear on Tuesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee which is probing alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 election, the media…
Aluva (Kerala) Sep 18 (IANS) A court on Monday turned down the fourth bail plea of Malayalam actor Dileep, arrested for alleged involvement in the conspiracy behind the kidnapping of an actress. The Angamaly Magistrate…