Swedish prosecutors still believe an arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be upheld, they said on Thursday in reply to the Stockholm District Court that will decide whether to lift the warrant. Lawyers for Assange asked the court in February to overturn the warrant, following a statement by ... Read More »
Rapping the BCCI and the cricket associations in Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra over water wastage when the State is reeling under severe drought, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday said the Indian Premier League (IPL) matches should ideally be shifted elsewhere, where there is no water crisis. “Only ... Read More »
Turf war:The Bombay High Court on Wednesday suggested shifting the forthcoming IPL matches out of drought-hit Maharashtra to stop wastage of water needed to maintain cricket grounds. The Supreme Court also questioned the Centre over relief measures taken in the affected States.—Photo: Vivek Bendre . [Source:- The Hindu] Read More »
A day after a 34-year-old man from Bhatkal town in Karnataka was detained at the Pune airport for alleged links with the Islamic State (IS), a senior government official said on Wednesday it could have been a case of mistaken identity. Ismail Musab Raoof Ahmed, a shoe salesman, was on ... Read More »
The ongoing all-India strike by jewellery associations against additional excise duty on gold, has turned into a political battleground. Senior political leaders from the Shiv Sena, Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have come out in support of jewellers who have been on strike for 37 days – the longest ... Read More »
Los Angeles (dpa) – The brave new world of visual effects opens a door for cinema audiences into otherwise inaccessible worlds: Mars, space, and the farthest corners of the imagination. In Disney’s new film version of The Jungle Book, the voyage is across the boundaries of nature, to a wilderness ... Read More »
Kariyappa, a farmer from Turakanadoni village in Raichur taluk, has filed a private complaint with the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Raichur, against 15 Bt cotton seed companies, with regard to crop loss caused by pink-bollworm pest this year. The accused companies are Nuziveedu Seeds Private Limited, Kaveri Seeds Private Limited, Shriram ... Read More »
The National Assembly of Vietnam on Thursday elected and swore in Nguyen Xuan Phuc to serve as prime minister for the next five years. The 61-year old politician, who had served as Deputy Prime Minister since 2011, won 90 per cent of the vote in the National Assembly. The process ... Read More »
Egyptian and Italian prosecutors and police are to start a two-day round of talks in Rome on Thursday to speed up the investigation in the case of Giulio Regeni, an Italian university researcher brutally killed in Cairo two months ago. The Egyptian delegation landed in the Italian capital late Wednesday and ... Read More »
An alleged neo-Nazi terrorist on trial in Munich had links to an undercover agent working for the German secret service, sources told dpa on Thursday. Beate Zschaepe, 41, worked in a store in the eastern German town of Zwickau that was run by the agent during Zschaepe’s time as an ... Read More »
A Dutch popular vote against strengthening ties between the European Union and Ukraine was an “attack on the unity of Europe,” Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Thursday. “The true goal of the organizers of this referendum is not the association agreement between Ukraine and the EU. … This is an ... Read More »
The daughter-in-law of Bahujan Samaj Party Rajya Sabha MP Narendra Kashyap was found dead with a bullet injury on her temple at their residence in Sanjay Nagar here on Wednesday. While Himanshi Kashyap’s (29) family claimed that she was murdered for dowry, her in-laws told the police that the bullet ... Read More »
