The Hague, March 24 (IANS) Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was on Thursday convicted and sentenced to 40 years imprisonment by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. According…
Bhopal, March 24 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Chief Secretary Anthony J.C. De Sa on Thursday presided over a meeting to review the arrangements for President Pranab Mukherjee’s two-day visit here in April. The president is slated…
Mumbai, March 24 (IANS) In a shocking disclosure, Pakistani-American terrorist-turned-approver David Coleman Headley on Thursday claimed that an attempt was made on the life of late Shiv Sena founder-patriarch Bal Thackeray. “I believe an attempt…
Kathmandu, March 24 (IANS) A decade after the end of civil war in Nepal in which about 13,000 people were killed, Nepal’s transitional justice bodies are all set to register complaints of the war-crime victims…
Lucknow, March 24 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh government has sacked two senior law officials, including additional advocate general Gaurav Bhatia, officials said on Thursday. Two of the state government’s empanelled officials in the Supreme Court…
Lucknow, March 24 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh government has sacked two senior law officials, including additional advocate general Gaurav Bhatia, officials said on Thursday. Two of the state government’s empanelled officials in the Supreme Court…
Union Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs, and Information and Broadcasting and BJP leader Arun Jaitley. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday questioned the economic model pursued by…
Rome, March 23 (IANS/AKI) Impoverished people who steal food should not incur criminal sanctions, Italy’s Supreme Court said in a ruling made public on Wednesday. Arrest and prosecution for theft should only occur “if such…
New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Wednesday condemned the police action against students of Hyderabad University and demanded action against the vice chancellor. In a letter to Telangana Chief Minister…
New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission on Wednesday issued a notice to the Chhattisgarh government in connection with the alleged wrongful detention and torture of a journalist who is a human…
Shimla: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh addresses during the monsoon session of the state assembly in Shimla, on Aug 26, 2015. (Photo: IANS) Shimla, March 23 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on…
Panaji, March 23 (IANS) The Bombay High Court’s Panaji bench on Wednesday refused ad-interim relief while hearing a petition opposing the holding of ‘DefExpo 2016’, and adjourned the case to March 30. The petition filed…
New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal on Wednesday flayed the scrapping of the city’s police station-level area committees by Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung. “I told union Home Minister…
New York, March 23 (IANS) Bangladeshi authorities should immediately set aside the death penalty against Mir Qasem Ali, a senior member of the opposition party Jamaat-e-Islaami, and order a new trial that meets international fair…
New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) The union cabinet on Wednesday decided to move official amendments to the Appropriation (Acts) Repeal Bill, 2015, and the Repealing and Amending (Third) Bill, 2015, and to pursue the said…
JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday declined to cancel the interim bail granted to JNU student union president Kanhaiya Kumar for now….
Kannur (Kerala) March 23 (IANS) A court here on Wednesday granted conditional bail to CPI-M leader P. Jayarajan who is an accused in the murder of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) worker Kathiroor Manoj. The Thalassery…
Imphal, March 23 (IANS) Irom Sharmila, who has been campaigning against the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), 1958, by undertaking “fast unto death”, wants to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi while visiting Delhi. Sharmila…
Moscow, March 23 (IANS) A Russian court in the southern city of Donetsk has sentenced Ukrainian army pilot Nadezhda Savchenko to 22 years in prison after finding her guilty of complicity in killing two Russian…
New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) on Tuesday requested Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung to reconsider his decision to scrap the ‘thana’ (police station) level committees’. “I have learnt through media…