Chandigarh : NIA today secured non-bailable arrest warrants against Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Maulana Masood Azhar, his brother Abdul Rauf and two others for allegedly conspiring to carry out terror strike on the strategic Indian Air Force base in Pathankot. A special NIA court based in Mohali issued the ‘open-ended non-bailable warrant’ against Azhar, his brother, […]
New Delhi : Street Children expressed their views to the UN Advisory Board Members on the forthcoming UN General Comment on Children in Street Situations. This was done in a consultation jointly organised in New Delhi by Plan India and Consortium for Street Children (CSC), UK. With the participation of almost 54 children and young […]
Dhaka : United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, has urged the Bangladesh Government to take urgent, concerted measures to ensure the protection of all those being threatened by extremists ‘operating in the country’.Hussein said they are alarmed by the violent killing of yet another blogger Nazimuddin Samad in Bangladesh.Meanwhile, UN […]
Colombo : Sri Lanka will sign the Paris Agreement on Climate Change at its signing ceremony to be held at the United Nations headquarters in New York on April 22. Sri Lankan Minister of Science, Technology and Research Susil Premajayantha will be signing the agreement on behalf of the government, reports Lanka Page. Sri Lanka […]
New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Friday ordered senior advocates Raju Ramachandran and Sanjay Hegde to defend adult convicts in the gruesome Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case.The decision was taken by a three-judge bench comprising of Justices Dipak Misra, V Gopala Gowda and Kurian Joseph.The apex court said that it was not satisfied […]