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Islamabad, Oct 19: An anti-corruption court on Thursday indicted Pakistan's ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter and son-in-law over corruption references filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). The accountability court in Islamabad indicted 67-year-old Sharif, his daughterMaryam Nawaz and her husband retired Captain Mohammad Safdar in the London properties reference even

Ahmedabad, Oct 19: Ahead of Assembly polls in Gujarat, the state government has announced a slew of sops for teachers, employees of municipalities and others. The polls are due later this year.The government said "fixed-pay" teachers of government- aided secondary and higher secondary schools across the state would get a significant hike in their salaries. Employees of 105 municipalities would now

Bengaluru, Oct 19: Nandini M, a city-based software engineer, who prefers to be identified as an “animal rights activist” hit the headlines earlier this week after she was allegedly attacked by a mob under the limits of Talaghattapura police station. The woman had claimed that she was attacked and her car was damaged by a mob after she lodged a formal complaint with the jurisdictional police

Bengaluru, Oct 19: Nandini M, a city-based software engineer, who prefers to be identified as an “animal rights activist” hit the headlines earlier this week after she was allegedly attacked by a mob under the limits of Talaghattapura police station. The woman had claimed that she was attacked and her car was damaged by a mob after she lodged a formal complaint with the jurisdictional police

Agartala, Oct 19: Tripura governorTathagata Roy has created yet another controversy by claiming azaan, or Muslim call to prayer, caused noise pollution. Roy was in news last week for his comments equating the Supreme Court ban on sale of firecrackers in Delhi to a communal conspiracy. "Every Diwali fights start over noise pollution from crackers. A few days in a year. But no fight about Azaan over

Agartala, Oct 19: Tripura governorTathagata Roy has created yet another controversy by claiming azaan, or Muslim call to prayer, caused noise pollution. Roy was in news last week for his comments equating the Supreme Court ban on sale of firecrackers in Delhi to a communal conspiracy. "Every Diwali fights start over noise pollution from crackers. A few days in a year. But no fight about Azaan over

Washington, Oct 19: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in his first major India-policy speech set the tone of bilateral relationship between India and the US for 100 years, a State Department official said, observing that the talk had many audiences, including China. "China's obviously an audience of the speech. But this is a speech, obviously, which we hope all countries in the Indo- Pacific region

Balasore, Oct 18: At least six people were killed and nine others seriously injured in an explosion at an illegal firecracker factory in Odisha’s Balasore district this evening, ahead of Diwali. It is apprehended that the number of casualties could go up as people are likely to be trapped under the debris of the house and rescue work is being hampered by rains triggered by a marked low pressure in

Mumbai, Oct 18: Campaigners are using social media and lobbying for special laws to annul child marriages in India, which has one of the world's highest rates of women married as children. Kriti Bharti, founder of Saarthi Trust, has helped nullify more than 30 child marriages in the western state of Rajasthan, and recently used Facebook posts as evidence in court in a state where these marriages

Chennai, Oct 18: Apologising for supporting demonetisation, actor Kamal Hassan said he will again salute Prime Minister Narendra Modi if he also accepts that the note ban was a mistake. In an article in the Tamil magazine Anandavikatan, the actor said accepting and correcting mistakes is a marker for great leaders which Mahatma Gandhi was able to do. Hassan said Modi should not be stubborn in