Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir administration Wednesday ‘forfeited’ the Sher-e-Kashmir Police Medal for Gallantry awarded to Deputy Superintendent of Police Davinder Singh, who has been arrested for helping terrorists travel out of JK, an official order said. It said the suspended officer's act amounted to...
Geneva: The past decade has been the hottest on record, the United Nations (UN) said Wednesday, warning that the higher temperatures were expected to fuel numerous extreme weather events in 2020 and beyond. The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), which based its findings on analysis of...
New Delhi: Sikh passengers were dragged out of trains and killed at railway stations in Delhi during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots but the police did not arrest anyone from the spot. They said that they were outnumbered, a Supreme Court appointed SIT has said in...
New Delhi: The Delhi government Wednesday told the high court that execution of the death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case will not take place January 22 as a mercy plea has been filed by one of them. The four convicts --...
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government Tuesday announced that 2G mobile connectivity will be restored in five districts of the Jammu region from Wednesday, while broadband facilities will be provided to "all the institutions dealing with essential services" as well as hospitals, banks and hotels...
New Delhi: One of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape-murder case who are to be hanged January 22 filed a mercy plea Tuesday before the President on Tuesday shortly after the Supreme Court refused to stay the execution of two of...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court dismissed Tuesday the curative petitions filed by two of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case. A five-judge bench headed by Justice NV Ramana rejected the curative petitions filed by Vinay Sharma (26) and...
New York: Microsoft’s Indian-origin CEO Satya Nadella Monday voiced concern over the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), saying what is happening is “sad” and he would love to see a Bangladeshi immigrant create the next unicorn in India. His comments came while speaking to editors...
New Delhi: The Delhi Police questioned Monday three Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students, including JNUSU president Aishe Ghosh, in connection with the January 5 violence on campus, even as students and teachers boycotted classes on the opening day of the winter semester amid a standoff...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court made it clear Monday that it was not hearing pleas seeking review of a 2018 judgement allowing women and girls of all ages to enter Kerala’s Sabarimala temple. It asserted that it would rather deal with larger issues, including the...
By Aakar Patel Attacks on Bengali Christians and their churches have begun following the BJP's victory in the state. Last...
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By Dilip Cherian The Centre appears keen to give young IPS officers early exposure to the workings and priorities of...
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The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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