Ahmedabad, Aug 8: An AAP worker has moved the Gujarat High Court against a magistrate’s order upholding police’s clean chit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for an alleged breach of election rules when voting was underway for last year’s Lok Sabha elections here. Nishant Verma, member of local unit of AAP, yesterday filed the petition […]
CHANDIGARH: Punjab BJP president Kamal Sharma has been facing an embarrassing situation over his proximity with drug smugglers. While role of Kamal Sharma is yet to be probed, the police has found his Personal Assistant and other close aides guilty of accepting bribe of Rs.35 lakhs from drug smugglers in lieu of political protection to […]
London : A jury in the US state of Colorado has spared gunman James Holmes the death penalty for killing 12 people at a screening of a Batman film in 2012.He will serve life in jail without the possibility of parole. The defence team had argued that the former neuroscience graduate student, now 27, was […]
Washington, Aug. 8 : The United States has condemned the ISIL kidnapping of 230 civilians in the Syrian province of Homs. In a statement, Mark C. Toner, Deputy Spokesperson of the U.S. State Department, said, “The United States strongly condemns ISIL’s kidnapping this week of a reported 230 innocent civilians, including women and children, in the […]
London, Aug 8 : The United Nations refugee agency UNHRC has said that the migrant crisis on three Greek islands near Turkey is a “total chaos”. According to the BBC, the UNHCR said that accommodation, water and sanitation are all inadequate for the many asylum seekers on Kos, Chios and Lesbos, calling it “shameful”.Nearly all are […]