United Nations, Sep 7 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for more efforts to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. Civilians, including women and children, are being killed either deliberately or…
Damascus, Sep 7 (IANS) A total of 978 civilians have been killed over the past three months by US-led airstrikes on Syria’s northern city of Raqqa, a monitor group reported on Wednesday. The death toll…
New York, Sep 7 (IANS) New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman plans to announce the filing of a multistate lawsuit to protect beneficiaries of a program shielding children brought to the US illegally on…
United Nations, Sep 7 (IANS) The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said that conflict and widespread poverty have stalled progress on education rates over the past decade around the world. “Pervasive levels of poverty, protracted conflicts…
Jerusalem, Sep 7 (IANS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to help bring back Israeli civilians held in Gaza. He made the request in his meeting with ICRC…
Geneva, Sep 6 (IANS/AKI) The United Nations on Wednesday praised a ruling by the European Union’s top court that rejected a challenge by Hungary and Slovakia to relocation quotas approved at the height of the…
New Delhi Sep 6 (IANS) The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) on Wednesday said it was all set to e-auction Hotel Taj Mansingh, Hotel Connaught, and Asian Hotel through MSTC Ltd, a central public sector…
New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) The Central government on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that it has set up a Committee of Experts headed by former apex court judge B.N. Srikrishna to study various aspects…
Cosenza (Italy), Sep 6 (IANS/AKI) Police on Wednesday in Italy’s southern city of Cosenza found 15 Bangladeshi street-sellers who were paying 100 euros a month to sleep in a filthy, rubbish-strewn building with no bathrooms,…
New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its verdict on a plea challenging the provision of the Indian Penal Code that exempts a person from being charged with rape for having…
Darjeeling, Sep 6 (IANS) In yet another blow to Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) leadership, a district court in West Bengal on Wednesday issued arrest warrant against eight of its leaders including party chief Bimal Gurung….
New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed a 13-year-old alleged rape victim to terminate her 32-week-old pregnancy. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice Amitava Roy and Justice A.M. Khanwilkar…
New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed around 90 private schools, who failed to refund the excess fee charged by them despite its committee’s recommendation and the city government’s order,…
New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) The government on Wednesday said directors of over two lakh deregistered companies will be liable to jail terms ranging from six months to 10 years if they tried to siphon…
New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) The Nestle Research and Development (R&D) Centre on Wednesday said it has inaugurated the first Nestle Food Safety Institute (NFSI) in the country to develop a collaborative approach towards ensuring…
Chennai, Sep 6 (IANS) The Vellore-based Christian Medical College’s (CMC) decision to suspend new admissions for 2017-18 on the ground that the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) marks alone could not be the criteria…
New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday asserted that cow vigilantism has to stop and directed states/Union Territories to appoint district nodal officers to take steps to prevent and act against perpetrators…
New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Central government to place before it details of the steps it had taken to verify the sources of income of lawmakers whose assets…
Mumbai, Sep 6 (IANS) Comedian Kiku Sharda, who was arrested last year for hurting the sentiments of the followers of Dera Sacha Sauda leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, on Wednesday took a dig at the…
Shimla, Sep 6 (IANS) Pulling up the CBI for its probe into the gang-rape and murder of a 16-year-old schoolgirl in Shimla district in July was progressing at a “snail’s pace”, the Himachal Pradesh High…