New Delhi, July 17: The Supreme Court today asked Parliament to consider enacting a new law to effectively deal with incidents of mob lynching, saying “horrendous acts of mobocracy” cannot be allowed to become a new norm. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra also passed a slew of directions to provide “preventive, remedial and […]
Pakistan: At least 18 members of a family were killed in Pakistan on the National Highway near Hala after a trailer rammed into their bus, on Monday. The family was returning from wedding in Sakrand area and had stopped to change the tyre hen a trailer rammed into the stationary vehicle, Dawn reported. The report quoted Edhi rescue teams […]
Pune: Canopies crumbled during Midnapore rally where PM Modi was delivering a speech. At least twenty of the participants are injured and have been hospitalized. “One of the tents collapsed while PM Modi was speaking,” the Indian Express report says. The report says that the prime minister saw tent collapsing and immediately instructed SPG personnel standing […]
Islamabad: Pakistan is observing mourning day on Sunday to express solidarity with the families of victims of recent terrorist attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. The National Flag is flying at half mast on the occasion, Pakistan Daily Dawn news said. The announcement to this effect was made by Prime Minister Nasirul Mulk in Islamabad […]
Peshawar/Karachi: A powerful explosion and attack in Pakistan has killed at least 133 people, including a top nationalist leader on seperate election rallies in Pakistan, the deadliest in a series of assaults on candidates ahead of the July 25 polls. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the targeted attack on a gathering of Balochistan Awami […]
Islamabad – Four people were killed after an explosion targeting a political rally in the northwestern Pakistan city of Bannu ahead of a July 25 general election. 19 people were wounded in the blast that occurred after the rally hosted by the JUI-F religious political party ended on Friday morning, Aljazeera reported, quoting an anonymous police […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will now charge those individuals and officials involved in enforced disappearance of citizens under its Anti-terrorism Act. The Islamabad High Court (IHC) Wednesday made the judgment in the case of a missing IT expert who was abducted from his home in F-10 area of the capital. The 47-page judgement, authored by Justice Athar […]
New Delhi: Media war erupted between Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party after Shashi Tharoor said that if BJP wins the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, India will become a ‘Hindu Pakistan’. BJP has asked Congress President Rahul Gandhi to apologise for Tharoor’s comments. “Rahul Gandhi must apologise for what Shashi Tharoor said. Congress was responsible for […]
New Delhi: The central government on India Wednesday pleaded before the Supreme court that it would not contest criminalisation of same-sex relations and leaves the decision to the ‘wisdom of court’. The Supreme Court is hearing the pleas challenging Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalises homosexuality. The Centre, which had sought four […]
Imphal: Nine people, including eight children, were killed today due to massive landslides in three different places of Tamenglong district today. Five children of the same parents were killed in New Salem, Tamenglong ward no. 4. when landslide occurred in the area. Many houses in the hill areas were washed away by the landslide. Locals […]
