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Family of Indian paralysed in police act...

Family of Indian paralysed in police action in U.S. will file lawsuit

The family of the 57-year-old Indian man, who has been left partially paralysed after a police officer forced him on ground in the United States, will file a lawsuit with many rights organisations terming the incident as “police brutality” and “racial profiling”. Several Indian-American... read more »

More than 300 migrants died this week tr...

More than 300 migrants died this week trying to reach Italy – UN agen...

More than 300 people died trying to cross the sea from Africa to Italy this week, the U.N. refugee agency said on Wednesday, adding pressure on Europe to expand a border operation that lacks a clear mandate to save lives. The high number of deaths, including 29 people who died of hypothermia on the... read more »

Modi not to attend Kejriwal’s swea...

Modi not to attend Kejriwal’s swearing-in ceremony

As part of his ongoing effort to build a working relationship between the Delhi Government and the Centre, Aam Aadmi Party leader and Delhi Chief Minister-designate Arvind Kejriwal called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday morning along with Manish Sisodia who is tipped to be Deputy Chief... read more »

Modi temple inauguration cancelled

Modi temple inauguration cancelled

Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s disapproving tweet on a temple in his name in Rajkot’s Kothadia village, its initiator has decided to cancel its inauguration and remove Mr. Modi’s idol and photograph from the site. “The inauguration will not happen today. The Prime Minister has... read more »

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NDA regime grant of additional spectrum: Case adjourned

NDA regime grant of additional spectrum: Case adjourned

New Delhi – A Delhi court Monday posted for Feb 20 next year the hearing of a case of grant of additional spectrum to private operators through a union government decision of January 2002, du... read more »

Sibal accuses BJP of double speak in snooping row

Sibal hopes apex court acts against Ganguly

New Delhi – Law Minister Kapil Sibal said Monday the Supreme Court should look into the matter against Justice A.K. Ganguly who has been... read more »

Situation unchanged despite tougher anti-rape law: Spea...

Situation unchanged despite tougher anti-rape law: Speaker

New Delhi – Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Monday said that despite the government having brought out a tougher law to fight sexual harassment, nothing... read more »

Law intern’s affidavit against Ganguly made public

Law intern’s affidavit against Ganguly made public

Excerpts of an affidavit by a law intern, who has accused former Supreme Court judge A.K. Ganguly of sexual harassment, have been made public by Additional... read more »

Seemandhra lawmakers tear, burn copies of Telangana bil...

Seemandhra lawmakers tear, burn copies of Telangana bill

Hyderabad – Tension prevailed in the Andhra assembly premises Monday when legislators from coastal Andhra and Rayalseema  regions tore off and set fire... read more »

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Train hits rickshaw, kills 6 kids in Pakistan

Train hits rickshaw, kills 6 kids in Pakistan

Pakistani police say a passenger train has hit a rickshaw carrying children on their way school, killing six children and the driver. Senior police officer Wasi Haider says the accident occurred near... read more »

Relief supplies sent for Philippines typhoon victims

Relief supplies sent for Philippines typhoon victi...

Dubai – As the number of affected people in the Philippines continues to rise, humanitarian assistance shipped out from the United Arab... read more »

China’s lunar probe to land on Moon next month

China hails its lunar probe mission as complete success

Beijing – China is scheduled to launch Chang’e-3 lunar probe to the Moon in early December, the first time a Chinese spacecraft will soft-land on... read more »

Pak special court to try Musharraf for treason in Decem...

Pak special court to try Musharraf for treason in December

Islamabad – The Pakistani government has announced that a special court will start functioning in the first week of December for the trial of former... read more »

US school shooter obsessed with mass murders

US school shooter obsessed with mass murders

Washington – A report on the December 2012 “massacre of the innocents” at a US elementary school says that the gunman had an obsession with... read more »

Car bombs in Kirkuk, Baghdad kill 33

The first major attack in the disputed Iraqi city of Kirkuk in months killed 18 people ton Thursday, while two car bombs in a frequently targeted Shiite district of Baghdad left 15... read more »

Jammu and Kashmir: 5 security personnel, 3 militants killed in attack at army artillery ca...

Five members of the Indian security forces were killed in a suicide attack on an army artillery camp in northern Kashmir early on Friday as militants step up violence in the disputed region... read more »

Home Ministry directive violative of criminal law: A. Jaitley

Jaitley to Customs officials: Use latest technology to analyze intelligence information

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley asked the Customs officials to use latest technology to gather and analyze intelligence information relating to any illicit transaction across the... read more »

Gold, silver prices rise on brisk buying, global cues

NEW DELHI: Any revision in gold import duty is unlikely to take place before the Budget and there is no proposal as of now to reduce the 10 per duty, a finance ministry official... read more »

Putin denies forcing Ukraine on EU integration decision

Russia’s Putin calls for Russians to be self-reliant

Speaking to both chambers in the Kremlin, Mr Putin condemned Western governments for seeking to raise a new iron curtain around Russia. Russia has been hard-hit by falling oil prices and by Western... read more »