New Delhi: The BJP fact-finding team has urged the party leadership to request the Centre for a CBI inquiry in the killings in Birbhum district of West Bengal claiming that the village is still deserted as people fear for their lives if they...

The District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) organised a “Mega camp court” at the Ludhiana Central Jail and ordered to release 68 undertrials involved in petty criminal cases. 

The Calcutta High Court ordered a CBI investigation into the murder of Congress councillor Tapan Kandu of Jhalda Municipality in West Bengal's Purulia district.

Colombo: In a deal seen as a strategic victory in its competition with China for influence in the Indian Ocean, India last week signed an agreement to set up hybrid power projects on northern Sri Lankan islands.

Chandigarh: The Punjab assembly passed a resolution reiterating its claim on the Union territory of Chandigarh, a city built in 1953 that functions as the capital of neighbouring states of Punjab and Haryana. The resolution urged the Centre...

Shanghai (China): Shanghai will remain under lockdown as it reviews results of an exercise to test all of its 26 million residents for Covid-19, authorities said. The city began its two-stage lockdown on March 28, initially in Shanghai’s eastern...

Berlin: Officials at a vaccination centre in Eilenburg, Germany, caught a sexagenarian when he turned up for a Covid shot for the second day in a row. The police found several blank vaccination cards on him and have initiated criminal proceedings....

A 75-year-old Sikh man was allegedly attacked while he was on an early morning walk in Queens, in which his nose was broken and he received severe bruises. The assault, police say was unprovoked. Nirmal Singh spoke to Eyewitness News about the...

Islamabad: Pakistan wants Kashmir and all other disputes with India “settled quickly through dialogue and diplomacy” while continuing to build on its “long history of excellent strategic relationship with the US” and “close ties” with China,...