New Delhi, Sep 5 (IANS) Immigrant Rohingya Muslims on Tuesday staged protest at the Jantar Mantar here against persecution of the community in Myanmar and demanded that the Indian government must intervene to save them….
New Delhi, Sep 5 (IANS) The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) on Tuesday declined to hear a plea by Vikram Bakshi of Connaught Plaza Restaurants Ltd challenging the termination notice of the franchise agreement by…
Nay Pyi Taw, Sep 5 (IANS) Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived here on Tuesday on a three-day visit to Myanmar amid a raging crisis involving Rohingyas in the country’s Rakhine state. Soon after his…
New Delhi, Sep 5 (IANS) Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday defended the government’s decision to deport Rohingyas, saying they were illegal migrants who did not have same rights as any…
New Delhi, Sep 5 (IANS) A court here on Tuesday asked the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to file its reply on the bail plea of alleged hawala dealer Muhammad Aslam Wani. Additional Sessions Judge Sidharth Sharma…
New Delhi, Sep 5 (IANS) The Supreme Court will hear on September 11, state-run IDBI’s plea seeking restoration of insolvency proceedings against Jaypee Infratech that was put on hold a day ago by the top…
Srinagar, Sep 5 (IANS) The NIA on Tuesday said it has arrested two stone-pelters in Kashmir in connection with an ongoing probe into terror funding to stoke unrest in the Valley. A National Investigation Agency…
Lucknow, Sep 5 (IANS) Two women loco pilots Pooja and Priyanka on Tuesday gave Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath a ride on Lucknow Metro on its inaugural run in…
New Delhi, Sep 5 (IANS) The Centre and the Assam government on Tuesday made it clear that Rohingya immigrants from Myanmar have to return to their native country. The assertion came on a day the…
Canberra, Sep 5 (IANS) The High Court of Australia on Tuesday began a two-day hearing on the legality of a postal survey which is crucial in determining whether same-sex marriage will be legalised in the…
Hong Kong, Sep 5 (IANS) Authorities in Hong Kong on Tuesday replaced a 24-hours BBC World Service radio channel, that has been running for 39 years, with China National Radio’s Mandarin-language broadcast. An online petition…
Srinagar, Sep 5 (IANS) Students in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam and Pulwama districts took to the streets on Tuesday to denounce attacks on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. On Monday, similar protests were held in Tral…
Dhaka, Sep 5 (IANS) At least 123,000 Rohingyas have crossed the border into Bangladesh fleeing violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, a UN official said here on Tuesday. Joseph Surjamoni Tripura, the UNHCR spokesperson in Bangladesh,…
By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Sep 5 (IANS) Female disciples or ‘sadhvis’ of the controversial Dera Sacha Sauda sect were forced to seek ‘mafi’ (pardon) from its chief, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, at his whims and…
Lucknow, Sep 5 (IANS) Upset over charges brought against senior doctors of a state-run hospital in Uttar Pradesh’s Farrukhabad, where 49 infants died within a month, all government doctors in the district went on mass…
Canberra, Sep 5 (IANS) Australia’s highest court on Tuesday began hearing legal challenges against a national vote on same-sex marriage. The government plans to hold a non-binding postal survey from next week to gauge support…
New York, Sep 5 (IANS) The US state of New York will sue President Donald Trump if he scraps a program shielding from deportation immigrants who came to the US illegally as children, officials said….
Cape Town, Sep 5 (IANS) The South African government refuted claims that foreign nationals in South Africa, and in particular Somalians, are being killed every second day in Cape Town. “The discourse of Somalian isolation…
Nairobi, Sep 5 (IANS) Kenya’s electoral body on Monday set October 17 for a repeat of presidential elections following the directive from the Supreme Court on Friday last week. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission…
New Delhi, Sep 4 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday sought details of complaints received by internet majors like Google, Yahoo and Facebook and instant messaging application WhatsApp in India regarding uploading of objectionable contents…