New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday expressed their condolences on death of senior advocate and constitutional law expert P.P. Rao. Rao, 84, died here on…
The Hague/New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) India on Wednesday submitted its written pleadings to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that resumed hearing in the case of alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav sentenced to death…
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) Union Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan has asked the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to consider inclusion of service charge while assessing tax. According to an official release,…
Islamabad, Sep 13 (IANS) The Pakistan Supreme Court on Wednesday began hearing an appeal by deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif against his disqualification on grounds of dishonesty. On July 28, Sharif had been disqualified by…
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) Issuing notice on the issue of giving land for Mohalla Clinics, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the central and state governments to explore the possibility of setting up…
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) Around 100 persons and civil society groups representing transgenders have written to Law and Justice Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad amid reports that several provisions relating to transgenders have been removed…
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Minister Narottam Mishra, disqualified by the Election Commission for filing wrong expenditure accounts, on Wednesday told the Delhi High Court that there was no evidence he had paid…
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) The Ministry of Home Affairs has issued notice to over 1,200 NGOs across the country asking them to submit expenditure details of the last four or more years, suspecting them…
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) Women are more likely to own a bank account or engage with formal banking institutions compared to men, according to a study released on Wednesday on the extent of low…
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) The Election Commission (EC) wants the husbands of women defence personnel to be enrolled as service voters, at par with the “military wives”, the poll panel said on Wednesday. According…
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday said a balance was needed to be maintained between Aadhaar data utility and privacy. “Balance is to be struck…
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked coaching centres for competitive examinations, running illegally in a residential areas such as Mukherjee Nagar in north Delhi, to inform it of the…
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday told the Central government that it could not hold back the future allocations of funds to the states under the National Urban Livelihood Mission (NULM)…
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed Jaiprakash Associates to deposit Rs 50 lakh as part payment of compensation for delayed possession to 10 buyers of flats in its Kalypso Court…
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Central government on a petition seeking to declare restitution of conjugal rights, or right to stay together, for estranged couples…
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday filed a chargesheet against the woman director of a Dubai-based company in a money laundering case related to AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal. The chargesheet…
Shimla, Sep 13 (IANS) A senior IPS officer arrested by the CBI, along with seven other policemen, over the custodial death of an accused in the sensational gangrape and murder of a scool girl in…
Islamabad, Sep 13 (IANS) The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is set to resume on Wednesday hearing in the case of alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav sentenced to death by Pakistan. The judicial body of…
Dhaka, Sep 13 (IANS) The United Nations office in Bangladesh on Wednesday raised the number of Rohingyas who have fled the conflict-torn Rakhine state in northwestern Myanmar since August 25 to 379,000, which is 9,000…
Dhaka, Sep 13 (IANS) Bangladeshi authorities on Wednesday recovered the corpses of nine Rohingyas, including three women and three children, from the River Naf, that separates Bangladesh and Myanmar. The latest deaths raised to 97…