New Delhi [India], Jun 7 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, Ashwini Upadhyay on Thursday filed a PIL (Public Interest Litigation) in the Supreme Court seeking to make bribery and other election-related offences cognizable and punishable with a minimum of two years of jail sentence.
Saraikela (Jharkhand) [India], June 7 (ANI): Additional Director General, Jharkhand Police, R.K. Mallick on Thursday said that a helicopter has been deployed to rescue the two security personnel who were critically injured in an encounter with naxals in Saraikela district.
Dhaka [Bangladesh], June 6 (ANI): Bangla singer Asif Akbar on Wednesday was sent to jail after the Dhaka court rejected both remand and bail petitions in a case filed by contemporary lyricist and composer Shafiq Tuhin over copyright issues and threats.
Washington D.C. [USA], Jun 5 (ANI): The United States-North Korea summit will be held in Singapore's Capella Hotel on Sentosa Island, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Tuesday.
New Delhi [India], June 5 (ANI): Delhi's Patiala House Court has convicted three out of four people in the 2011 terror funding case and sentenced them for the period already undergone.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Jun 4 (ANI): A Mumbai special TADA court on Monday sent Ahmed Shaikh alias Ahmed Lambu, a key conspirator in 1993 Mumbai bomb blast case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) custody till June 14.
New Delhi [India] June 04 (ANI): A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on Monday heard the pleas of the five accused in the 2006 Jammu and Kashmir sex scandal, and will pronounce the quantum of sentence to the accused on June 6.
New Delhi [India], Jun 3 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday sent a warm greeting to former defence minister and Rajya Sabha MP George Fernandes on his 88th birthday.
Kozhikode, (Kerala) [India] June 2 (ANI): Samples of fruit bats that were sent from Kozhikode to Bhopal's National Institute of High-Security Animal Diseases (NIHSAD) on May 30 were tested negative for Nipah Virus.
Dubai [UAE], Jun 2 (ANI): A prominent Emirati human rights activist, Ahmed Mansoor has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for "defaming" the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on social media, as per several local media reports.
New Delhi [India], Jun 1 (ANI): ICICI bank on Friday rebuffed reports regarding CEO Chanda Kochhar being sent on an indefinite break by the bank board, in the light of the independent enquiry over the alleged cases of impropriety regarding loans extended to the Videocon Group.