Bhubaneswar, May 29: Biju Janata Dal president Naveen Patnaik Wednesday took oath as the Chief Minister of Odisha for a fifth consecutive term. Patnaik was administered the oath of office and secrecy by Governor Ganeshi Lal in a grand ceremony at the Idco Exhibition Ground here. The BJD, which […]
Muzaffarnagar (UP), May 29: A local court here has acquitted 12 people due to lack of evidence in connection with the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots case. Additional District Sessions Judge Sanjive Kumar Tiwari acquitted them under sections 395 (dacoity) and 436 (arson) of the IPC on Tuesday in the […]
Noida (UP), May 29: A fire ripped through a factory in Greater Noida in the early hours on Wednesday, police said. Nobody was injured in the fire that broke out around 3 am at the factory on Gurudwara road in Surajpur area, they said. “A team of police and […]
Thane, May 29: A Maharashtra court has acquitted a 36-year-old man of charges of raping and cheating his live-in partner on the pretext of marriage, observing that their relationship does not come under the definition of rape. District judge S A Sinha in her order last Thursday said the […]
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld an Indiana law that requires abortion providers to dispose of aborted fetuses in the same way as human remains, a sign that the conservative court is more open to abortion restrictions. But the justices rejected the state’s appeal of a […]
COLOMBO – A hardline Buddhist monk accused of inciting violence against minority Muslims in Sri Lanka said on Tuesday he planned to denounce Islamist militants after he was freed from prison last week by presidential pardon. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara, head of the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) or “Buddhist […]
NEW DELHI – Three Indian opposition state assembly members and more than 50 municipal leaders from West Bengal joined Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party on Tuesday, days after he was re-elected with big gains in places like the populous eastern state. The defections came as opposition parties in […]
Karachi, May 28: The Pakistan Cricket Board on the request of the national team management has decided to keep batsmen Muhammad Rizwan and Abid Ali in England for the duration of the World Cup as back-up players. While wicketkeeper-batsman Rizwan did not make it to the final 15 for […]
Lahore, May 28: As Pakistan Tuesday marked the 21st anniversary of its atomic tests, jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif said that his decision to make the country a nuclear power has made its defence “invincible.” On May 28, 1998 Pakistan carried out five nuclear tests at Chaghi in […]
Jammu, May 27: Sixty-one security personnel and 11 civilians were killed while 142 people were injured in 177 terror-related incidents in Jammu and Kashmir in the first four months of 2019, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has said. The statement by Sulekha, Director, MHA came in response to […]
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