Washington, Sep 9 (IANS) The US has called for a UN Security Council (UNSC) meeting to vote on a draft resolution to impose additional sanctions on North Korea. The vote in response to Pyongyang’s latest…
Sirsa/Chandigarh, Sep 9 (IANS) The search operation of the Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters near Haryana’s Sirsa town continued on Saturday with hundreds of security personnel and local administration involved in the exercise. Curfew continues in…
By Gurmukh Singh Vancouver, Sep 9 (IANS) The Supreme Court of Canada has paved the way for extradition of Jassi Sidhu’s mother and uncle to India in a June 2000 honour-killing case in Punjab. On…
Washington, Sep 9 (IANS) US President Donald Trump signed into law a bill to provide $15.25 billion in assistance for victims of Hurricane Harvey, extend the debt ceiling for three months and fund the operation…
Geneva, Sep 9 (IANS) The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said its staff in Myanmar and Bangladesh are scaling up their efforts to minimize the suffering of this crisis. It said on Friday…
Paris, Sep 9 (IANS) Jawad Bendaoud, the landlord who provided his apartment to extremists who killed 130 people in November 2015 in Paris, will appear before anti-terrorism judges, media reports said. Bendaoud was charged with…
Bengaluru, Sep 8 (IANS) Over 15,000 Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) from across Karnataka, who had been protesting since Thursday, called off their agitation late on Friday evening after the state government agreed to meet…
New Delhi, Sep 8 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Friday directed the city government and the police to file status reports on molestation of blind children at an NGO premises here allegedly by a…
Villavicencio (Colombia), Sep 8 (IANS/AKI) Pope Francis on Friday deplored violence and “patriarchal and sexist’ attitudes towards women. “Pschological, verbal and physical violence towards women is evident,” said the Pope, who is currently visiting Colombia…
Roma, Sep 8 (IANS/AKI) Italian authorities expelled a 44-year-old Tunisian accused of proselytising for the Islamic State jihadist group – the 73rd Islamist extremist to be deported this year, the Interior Ministry said on Friday….
Mumbai, Sep 8 (IANS) The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) on Friday announced it upheld complaints against 62 out of 126 advertisements in June. Out of these 62, 23 belonged to the healthcare category,…
Rome, Sep 8 (IANS/AKI) It is “misleading” to directly link immigration with terrorism, while terrorism is “closely connected” to a failure to integrate migants in host societies, Italyian Interior Minister Marco Minniti said on Friday….
New Delhi, Sep 8 (IANS) At least 200 families displaced after the 2013 communal violence in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts of Uttar Pradesh are yet to get compensation and are living in squalid conditions in…
New Delhi, Sep 8 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Friday allowed NSUI’s presidential candidate Rocky Tuseed to contest the Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) election scheduled for September 12. Justice Indermeet Kaur in an…
Ahmedabad, Sep 8 (IANS) A special trial court here on Friday granted last opportunity to former Gujarat BJP Minister Maya Kodnani to present party President Amit Shah as her defence witness in the Naroda Gam…
Chandigarh, Sep 8 (IANS) Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij on Friday ordered the state Director General of Health Services to inquire into reports that the Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda authorities sent 14 bodies to a…
New Delhi, Sep 8 (IANS) Former BJP leader and Hindutva ideologue K.N. Govindacharya on Friday moved the Supreme Court seeking deportation of Rohingya Muslims, expressing apprehension that the terror outfit Al-Qaeda was trying to use…
Islamabad, Sep 8 (IANS) Pakistan’s Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Friday confirmed the death sentence to four “hardcore terrorists” who were handed the capital punishment by a military court for committing offences related…
Tehran, Sep 8 (IANS) Iran on Friday urged Myanmar to put an immediate end to the ongoing violence against Rohingyas and allow unhindered access of humanitarian assistance to the violence-hit regions. The international community and…
New Delhi, Sep 8 (IANS) The Congress-backed National Students Union of India (NSUI) on Friday announced that it will field Rocky Tuseed as its presidential candidate for the Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) election. After…