Chinese couple loses fight for gay marriage recognition
Beijing, April 13 (IANS) In the first case of its kind in China, a judge on Wednesday ruled that a gay couple cannot register as married. Sun Wenlin and Hu Mingliang filed a lawsuit against…
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FBI paid professional hackers to crack San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone
Washington, April 13 (IANS) The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) paid hackers to crack the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone. The FBI contacted hackers who found at least one previously unknown software flaw in the iPhone…
Panama papers: Mossack Fonseca headquarters raided
Panama city, April 13 (IANS) Police in Panama have raided the headquarters of the law firm Mossack Fonseca at the centre of a massive data leaks dubbed as “Panama Papers”. Prosecutors said the operation had…
Kerala temple tragedy: Woman committee member seeks interim bail
Kollam (Kerala), April 13 (IANS) While the seven arrested committee members of the Kerala’s Puttingal Devi temple in Paravur town have been remanded to judicial custody, a woman committee member and a few others are…
Manipur activists strive to restore communal harmony
Imphal, April 13 (IANS) Several social organisations are striving for the restoration of communal harmony in the wake of clashes and attacks in some parts of Manipur’s Imphal west and Thoubal districts. The present friction…
Pyongyang demands Seoul to return 13 North Koreans
Pyongyang, April 13 (IANS) North Korea demanded on Tuesday that South Korea return 13 North Korean nationals who Seoul claimed were defectors to the South and apologise for abducting them. A spokesman for the central…
SC seeks details on drought situation in 12 states
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the central government to give information about the drought situation in 12 states with details relating to affected states, districts, taluks and villages as…
Does an RBI affidavit make Rajan a less good person?
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) Can an affidavit by the Reserve Bank of India cast doubt on the nature of its Governor Raghuram Rajan?…
SC to examine if defaulters’ names can be made public
(Photo: IANS) New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court will examine if the Reserve Bank of India and the central government could take shelter behind the confidentiality clause in the RBI Act and other…
Bombay HC’s posers to BCCI on IPL matches
Mumbai, April 12 (IANS) The Bombay High Court on Tuesday posed some uncomfortable questions to the BCCI on whether Indan Premier League matches should be played in Maharashtra in view of the grim water situation…
Indian Jews approach government for minority status
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) The Indian Jewish community has reiterated its demand for recognition as a minority community in the country. The community has moved an application with the union minority affairs ministry to…
Kerala toll 112, HC pulls up police
Kerala (Kollam): The victims of Paravur Puttingal temple accident caused by a firework display in which 96 people lost their lives in Kollam district of Kerala, about 60 km from state capital Thiruvananthapuram on April…
Delhi court orders case against real estate company
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) Observing that builders dominate consumers and their projects are seldom delivered on time, a Delhi court has asked police to register a case against a real estate company. Special CBI…
SC wants private airlines on less lucrative routes in Himachal, northeast
(Photo: IANS) New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday slammed the government policy allowing private airlines to fly to lucrative destinations without putting them under the obligation of catering to less economical…
Hillary Clinton criticised for racist joke
Washington, April 12 (IANS) Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and her ally, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, have beeen criticised for a racist joke at a charity event. Appearing on stage at the Inner…
Kerala toll 111, ban on night firecrackers
Kollam/Thiruvananthapuram, April 12 (IANS) The man who organised the deadly fireworks show at the Kerala temple died on Tuesday, taking the toll in the tragedy to 111, even as the Kerala High Court banned high…
NIA seeks custody of accused in Gujarat BJP leaders’ murder
Ahmedabad, April 12 (IANS) The NIA has moved a special court here to seek three-day custody of three men accused in the 2015 murders of the BJP’s local leaders, Shirish Bangali and Pragnesh Mistry, in…
Rajendra Kumar wants his laptop, ipad, cash back from CBI
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) A court here has asked the CBI to respond to a plea of Rajendra Kumar, principal secretary of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, for return of his seized cash, laptop…
Kerala HC bans high decibel firecrackers at night
Kochi, April 12 (IANS) Two days after a fire tragedy in a temple killed 110 people, the Kerala High Court on Tuesday ordered a ban on exploding high decibel firecrackers at night. Fireworks displays during…
HC grants Pratyusha’s boyfriend interim protection from arrest
Mumbai: Rahul Raj Singh boyfriend of Pratyusha Banerjee who commited suicide by hanging herself at her flat; at Siddharth Hospital in Mumbai, on April 2, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Mumbai, April 12 (IANS) The Bombay High…