New Delhi, The Supreme Court today dismissed the petition filed by the Tamil Nadu government challenging the order of the Madras High Court appointing an IAS officer to inspect and verify steps taken to stop illegal mining in the state. A bench headed by Chief Justice R M Lodha saidRead More

New Delhi, The Congress on Thursday welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision to question the Centre on the lack of transparency in the appointment of key constitutional positions and asked the government to come clean on it. “The government is not transparent in its approach nor is it honouring the settledRead More

Mumbai, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday met his party leaders to discuss seat-sharing in the Maharashtra Assembly polls. The meeting came about as ally Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) demanded 135 seats in the state. BJP leader Amit Shah even said on Thursday that the BJP will form theRead More

Mumbai, A Court in Bulandshahr has summoned Vijay Mallya, chairman-cum-managing director of now defunct Kingfisher Airlines. A pilot working for the carrier filed a petition in the court alleging that Kingfisher Airlines was withholding his payment dues. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Umakant Jindal , after finding Mallya prima-facie guilty ofRead More

Canberra, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott Thursday said that suspected terrorists belonging to the Islamic State (IS) were planning a public beheading in the country. Abbott’s comments came after police detained 15 people in the biggest counter-terrorism raids across the country early Thursday, Xinhua reported. Abbott said that a seniorRead More

Toronto, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford soon will begin chemotherapy to treat a rare and aggressive cancer, a doctor at Mount Sinai Hospital in the city said Wednesday. Dr. Zane Cohen said Ford has a malignant liposarcoma, and a second biopsy on his tumor done Monday shows it is aggressive. “However,Read More

Lagos: The death toll from a collapsed guesthouse at a megachurch in Nigeria`s financial capital Lagos has risen to 80 after more bodies were pulled from the rubble, rescuers said on Thursday. The guesthouse at popular preacher and televangelist TB Joshua`s Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) came down lastRead More

Paris: France`s national rail company SNCF was charged with manslaughter on Thursday following a high-speed derailment near Paris last year that claimed seven lives and left dozens injured. The July 2013 crash at the station of Bretigny-sur-Orge, south of Paris, was caused by a faulty fishplate — a joint barRead More

Vienna: The European Union said on Thursday it was disappointed with a lack of progress by Iran in addressing concerns about its suspected atomic bomb research, pressuring Tehran to cooperate with a long-stalled U.N. watchdog inquiry. The 28-nation EU made the statement at a board meeting of the International AtomicRead More

Tehran: Iranian authorities hanged Thursday in public five prisoners who had been sentenced to death on charges of kidnapping, rape, armed robbery and other crimes, state news agency IRNA reported. Three of the hangings of prisoners convicted of kidnapping, rape and torture took place early Thursday at Azadi Square inRead More