The house of a ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) MLA was attacked on Wednesday with a petrol bomb in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district. Police said unknown persons hurled the bomb at the house of Muhammad Yusuf in Memander village. "A portion of the house caught fire but it was immediately doused," a police officer said...
French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday said that France is willing to seek a broader nuclear pact with Iran even if the US withdraws from the deal that Tehran signed with world powers in 2015. "I don't know what the US President will decide on May 12. Whatever the decision, we will have to prepare a broader negotiation and a broader deal because...
A Special court here on Wednesday further extended till July 10 the interim protection against arrest granted to senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram's son Karti Chidambaram in the Aircel-Maxis case. Special Judge O.P. Saini also directed Karti to join the investigation, whenever required, and not to leave the country without the court's permissi...
Pakistan's former Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif on Wednesday challenged in the Supreme Court a judgment by the Islamabad High Court (IHC) disqualifying him from Parliament for life for holding a work permit of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Asif stated in his review petition that he "unintentionally" failed to disclose his for...
New Delhi, May 2 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday took suo motu cognizance of the killing of the Assistant Town Planner at Kasauli in Himachal Pradesh when she had gone to supervise the demolition of unauthorized construction at 13 guest houses and resorts. Describing the killing Shaila Bala Sharma as "extremely serious", the bench of Justice Madan B. ...
Thomas Vinu Allen, a leading immigration attorney in New Jersey is an active speaker and writer on immigration laws and appears as a keynote speaker on immigration issues at national industry meetings and trade association conferences. ...
Kerala cabinet on Wednesday decided to give compensation of Rs 10 lakh and a government job to the wife of 26-year-old Sreejith, who died in police custody in March. Sreejith's wife, Akhila, who holds the police "primarily responsible" for how their family was "decimated", has welcomed the development. "The steps taken by the governme...
Maoists have beheaded a man on the outskirts of Jharkhand's capital Ranchi after accusing him of being a police spy. According to the police, the guerrillas chopped off Abraham Tigga's head. A resident of Ubasaal village, Tigga was abducted late on Tuesday while on his way home from the market. He was first beaten up and later beheaded. The Maoists then set a v...
Senior ruling JD-U leader Uday Narain Choudhary, a former Speaker of the Bihar Assembly, on Wednesday said he was quitting the ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) to denounce the state government's anti-Dalit policies. "I have resigned from the JD-U over the party leadership's silence on increasing crime and atrocities against Dalits in Bihar an...
A student stabbed in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district succumbed to his injuries in a hospital here on Wednesday, police said. Liyaqat Ali was stabbed outside the Billawar Degree College on Tuesday. He died at the Government Medical College here. "All three persons involved in the attack have been arrested. The vehicle used by them has also been seized," a pol...
