CPI(M) veteran Pinarayi Vijayan was on Tuesday elected its Parliamentary party leader, paving the way for his successive stint as Chief Minister of Kerala. Health minister in the outgoing Assembly, K K Shailaja, does not find a place in the new cabinet which has 11 new faces from CPI...
In the latest of a series of pro-free speech and media freedom orders, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled no journalist could be arrested on sedition charges merely for harshly criticising the government or the establishment, if the scribe did not incite violence against the government or hatred between communities.
Quashing a...
United Nations, May 25 (PTI) Underlining the role of technology in the safety of UN peacekeepers, India has told the world body's top organ that plans are afoot to launch a mobile tech platform in August this year that will provide terrain-related information to the Blue Helmets in the line...
Montreal, Canada – Like so many others have done during the coronavirus pandemic, the Afzaal family was out for an evening walk. But on Sunday, as they waited to cross a street in London, Ontario, they were run down by a driver police say was motivated by anti-Muslim hate.
For members of...
Jerusalem, May 25 (AP) US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Israel at the start of a Middle East tour aimed at shoring up the Gaza cease-fire.
He will face the same obstacles that have stifled a wider peace process for more than a decade, including a hawkish Israeli...
As a devastating second wave of COVID-19 ebbs with less than 100,000 new cases reported on Tuesday, India is now battling a new scare: Mucormycosis, commonly referred to as “black fungus”, is a rare fungal disease with a high mortality rate.
On Monday, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said the country...
New Delhi, May 25 (PTI) Petrol price inched towards the Rs 100-mark in Mumbai on Tuesday after fuel rates were hiked again.Petrol price was increased by 23 paise per litre and diesel by 25 paise a litre, according to a price notification of state-owned fuel retailers.The hike - 13th this...
San Ramon (US), May 25 (AP) The judge who will decide a case challenging Apple's stranglehold on its iPhone app store indicated on Monday she would like to promote more competition but without dismantling a commission system that reaps billions of dollars for the technology powerhouse.
US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez...
