After over 70 years of service, the Uttar Pradesh Police is finally retiring the 303 rifles on this year's Republic Day. An order to this effect was passed on Thursday by the state police headquarters here....
The BJP Central Election Committee meeting held late on Thursday and attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah has not thrown up any candidate names for the upcoming Delhi Assembly polls. ...
US Chief Justice John Roberts has been sworn in on the Senate floor for the soon-to-begin impeachment trial, making Donald Trump only the third president in US history to face such a trial in the upper chamber....
Fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander has filed a lawsuit against R.J. Donovan State Prison officials and California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, alleging that the prison officials failed to keep him safe and to provide adequate medical care after he was assaulted behind bars, a report by ABC 10 News said. ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Thursday said that three European nations were succumbing to tariff threats from the US in raising a dispute mechanism in a landmark multilateral agreement on Tehran's nuclear programme....
Pakistan's former President Pervez Musharraf on Thursday submitted an appeal in the Supreme Court against a special court's verdict that found him guilty of high treason and handed him a death sentence. ...
Mikhail Mishustin, Russian President Vladimir Putin's proposed Prime Ministerial candidate, has said that some changes were planned in the new government, an official said on Thursday....
More than 80 Cambodian civil society groups on Thursday have urged the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to broadcast live the treason trial of opposition figure Kem Sokha after hearings had begun a day before amid heavy criticism around transparency....
The Bombay High Court bench in Goa on Thursday directed a trial court to not cross-examine the victim in the rape case filed against Tarun Tejpal, until it hears and resolves a petition filed by the victim accusing the former Tehelka editor-in-chief's lawyers of asking questions which are scandalous in nature and in contravention of the law....
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Thursday said for a robust democracy to survive, it was essential that all elected members get the right to raise issues related to general public and the government should take those views seriously....
