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Shahjahanpur, Dec 12 (IANS) The 23-year-old law student, who had leveled sexual harassment charges against former Union Minister Chinmayanand, has been released on bail from Shahjahanpur district jail. Late on Wednesday evening, she was granted bail by the Allahabad High Court. Her bail applications were earlier denied by lower courts[Read More…]

San Francisco, Dec 12 (IANS) Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has announced that his company was funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media that would help better control abusive and misleading information on[Read More…]

Washington, Dec 12 (IANS) Deportations of undocumented immigrants from the US rose by 4.3 per cent in the fiscal year 2019 (between October 1, 2018 and September 30, 2019) compared to the same period in 2018. The Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported on Wednesday that[Read More…]

Wellington, Dec 12 (IANS) The death toll due to the eruption of New Zealand’s Whakaari or White Island volcano has increased to 16 after two more people succumbed to their burn injuries, authorities said on Thursday. The total number of deaths could still increase given that there are 20 people[Read More…]

Washington, Dec 12 (IANS) The US Federal Reserve has decided to leave interest rates unchanged at between 1.5-1.75 per cent after undertaking consecutive rate reductions at each of its three earlier meetings this year, emphasizing what it called the good health of the American economy. The decision was made on[Read More…]

Panaji, Dec 12 (IANS) What’s in a name? Ask the angry residents of South Goa’s Margao town, who have innovatively resisted the christening of an approximately two km long refurbished road, after former Chief Minister later Manohar Parrikar. Last week, angry residents of Margao and Fatorda on their own volition,[Read More…]

Mumbai, Dec 12 (IANS) Virat Kohli and Rohit, two of India’s batting mainstays, have ended 2019 as the joint highest run-getters in T20 internationals. In what was India’s last T20I of the year on Wednesday evening, Virat and Rohit came out with exceptional batting performances as the hosts took the[Read More…]

London, Dec 12 (IANS) The UK is set to vote on Thursday for the country’s third general election in less than five years, a poll deemed crucial for the nation’s future in the European Union (EU) if the ruling Conservatives are elected to power again. Polling stations in 650 constituencies[Read More…]

Zagreb (Croatia), Dec 12 (IANS) Manchester City have wrapped up round-robin play in this season’s Champions League by routing Dinamo Zagreb 4-1, rallying from an early deficit thanks to a Gabriel Jesus hat-trick. In other Group C action which took place on Wednesday, Serie A side Atalanta booked their first-ever[Read More…]

Islamabad, Dec 12 (IANS) Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi held talks with his Saudi counterpart in Riyadh in what appears to be a visit linked to Islamabad’s efforts to seek de-escalation in rising tensions in the Persian Gulf region. A statement issued by the Foreign Office here said that[Read More…]

Tianjin, Dec 12 (IANS) China’s Deng Wei has set a new world record at the ongoing 2019 IWF World Cup. In the women’s 64kg category, Deng on Wednesday posted a lift of 117kg, taking the lead and breaking the previous world record lift of 116kg. In the clean and jerk,[Read More…]

Islamabad, Dec 12 (IANS) After a break of one year, some 100 Hindu pilgrims from India were due to arrive at the Katas Raj temple in Pakistan’s Punjab province on Saturday, the media reported. “Hindu pilgrims will cross the Wagah Border on Friday and will reach Katas Raj the next[Read More…]

By Deepak Sharma San Francisco, Dec 12 (IANS) In what seems to be a technology breakthrough, impacting the lives of billions of people, Cisco, an American technology giant, has unveiled a new innovative chip and router, saying that it will power the “internet of the future”. The new internet, according[Read More…]

Lahore, Dec 12 (IANS) Three patients died after doctors failed to provide them timely treatment due to a violent protest staged by lawyers outside Lahore’s Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC). The lawyers were protesting against a video that went viral on social media on Tuesday, in which a doctor is[Read More…]

Ranchi, Dec 12 (IANS) The third phase of polling began on Thursday morning on 17 constituencies in Jharkhand, which votes in five phases to elect 81 members of the legislative assembly. The voting commenced at 7 a.m., amidst tight security arrangements. While the polling exercise on five seats – Ranchi,[Read More…]

Santiago, Dec 12 (IANS) The Chilean air force has said that parts of a plane that crashed en route to Antarctica with 38 people aboard were found in the water near the last known position of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft. Bits of foam from the plane’s interior were encountered[Read More…]

London, Dec 12 (IANS) Rock star Robbie Williams says his seven-year-old daughter is a better singer than him. “I’m not the most talented singer in my family. My daughter is more talented than me. Teddy is a fantastic singer,” said Robbie, in an interview with Daily Star newspaper’s Wired column.[Read More…]

Kabul, Dec 12 (IANS) A car bombing near a military base in Afghanistan killed two civilians, wounded over 70, including some soldiers, and badly damaged an under-construction hospital near the largest United States defense base in Bagram of the war-torn country, officials said. The attack on Wednesday, claimed by the[Read More…]

Mumbai, Dec 12 (IANS) Actress Rani Mukerji, who plays a cop in “Mardaani 2”, has urged women of the country to join the police force in large numbers. “I want more and more girls and women of our country to choose the police department as their profession because personally as[Read More…]

Wellington, Dec 12 (IANS) Two more people died overnight in hospital following the volcanic eruption on White Island, New Zealand, bringing the death toll to eight, local police said in a statement Thursday morning. “One was being treated at Middlemore Hospital and one at Waikato Hospital. Police remain focused on[Read More…]

United Nations, Dec 12 (IANS) Both the president and the prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals blasted South Africa for its failure to arrest a fugitive wanted by the mechanism, which deals with cases left over by the UN tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda.[Read More…]

New York, Dec 12 (IANS) The two suspects who died in a shootout after allegedly killing a police detective and three civilians in Jersey City, New Jersey, specifically targeted the Jewish supermarket where a long-running gun battle occurred, city authorities have said. Jersey City’s mayor, Steven Fulop, and public safety[Read More…]

Kolkata, Dec 12 (IANS) Ecstatic BJP workers burnt crackers, danced and raised slogans eulogising Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah in various parts of West Bengal after the Rajya Sabha passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 (CAB) on Wednesday. A large number of euphoric BJP activists[Read More…]