
Greek's parliament on Thursday approved an omnibus draft bill ratifying the debt deal the government reached with creditors on Monday and the first round of reforms requested as prerequisites for the immediate release of international aid to avert imminent default and Grexit, media reports said. ...
An Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, Godala Kiran Kumar, was arrested Wednesday night for allegedly siphoning off funds from the Siliguri-Jalpaiguri Development Authority (SJDA) while serving as its CEO, police said....
Nine people have been arrested for hacking to death six members of a family for suspected sorcery in Odisha's tribal dominated Keonjhar district, said police on Wednesday....
On the eve of the "Bandh" (shutdown) it has called, the Congress party here on Wednesday expressed fears of violence by the people linked to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government....

Yakub Memon, convicted for his role in the March 12, 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts, will be hanged on July 30, official sources said here early Wednesday....
Authorities in North Goa and South Goa districts have renewed the ban on the entry of Pramod Muthalik, chief of the Mangalore-based Hindu right-wing organisation Sri Rama Sene, a government official said on Wednesday....

The Congress on Wednesday said the alleged kingpin of the Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh shared the ill-gotten money with top BJP and RSS leaders, including RSS Sarsanghchalak Suresh Soni and union minister Dharmendra Pradhan....
The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to vacate its July 2014 order restraining all state governments from releasing life term convicts by exercising their remission powers as it rejected the plea by Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and others....
A nine-year-old girl who was raped by a 42-year-old man two days ago in east Delhi's Khajoori Khas area, died in a hospital on Wednesday....

Social activist Anna Hazare on Wednesday announced plans to launch an indefinite hunger strike from October 2 in Delhi for implementation of the 'One Rank One Pension' (OROP) for ex-servicemen and against the contentious land acquisition bill....