Congress targets Amit Shah after PM Modi’s jibe at Lalu

New Delhi, Aug 9: Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi trained his guns on RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav who had been convicted in the fodder scam, the Congress Party on Sunday asked the former as to what tricks did BJP chief Amit Shah learn when he was in jail.”He said that Lalu must have […]

James Holmes spared death penalty for US cinema killings

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 […]

US condemns ISIL kidnappings in Homs

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 […]

Refugee crisis on Greek islands ‘total chaos’, says UNHRC

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 […]