Seoul and Pyongyang on Friday agreed to work together to realise a "complete" denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula following a historic summit between the two countries' leaders that came after a gap of over a decade. The agreement was part of a joint declaration issued after South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean l...
The Supreme Court will hold further hearing on May 3, on Centre's plea seeking the recall of its judgement holding that arrest on a complaint under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act is not mandatory. A bench headed by Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel said that it would hear the Centre's plea after Attorney General K.K. Venugopal told the b...
Thrissur (Kerala), April 27 Maoists on Friday issued a poster calling for death to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, saying he has failed the adivasis. An officer from Pazhayannur police station near here bordering Palakkad district said the poster was stuck at a workshop. It read: "Vijayan's head will be cut off." As the police could ...
Miftah Ismail, Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi's adviser on finance and a member of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), took oath as the country's Minister for Finance, Revenue and Economic Affairs on Friday. President Mamnoon Hussain administered the oath to Ismail during a ceremony attended by Cabinet members, ...
The Congress on Friday asked if Prime Minister Narendra Modi was going to confront China over the Doklam issue during his two-day informal summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. In a series of tweets, the party's Communications Incharge Randeep Singh Surjewala attacked the Modi government and accused it of being incapable of sending a strong...
In a bid to retain power in Karnataka, the ruling Congress on Friday promised to create one crore jobs across the southern state in its manifesto for the May 12 Legislative Assembly elections. "We aim to create at least 15-20 lakh jobs each year in the state and provide programmes for skill development, encouraging entrepreneurship and incr...
A woman employee of a private firm in Noida in Uttar Pradesh has accused an Ola cab driver's accomplice of raping her here. The two men were arrested on Friday, police said. The woman told the police that at around 4.30 p.m. on Thursday she had booked an Ola cab from Sector 37 in Noida to go to the adjoining Greater Noida area. There was a ma...
The parents of American student Otto Warmbier filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the North Korean government charging that the country's regime tortured and killed their son, according to lawyers for the family. Warmbier -- the 22-year-old American student who was detained in North Korea for 17 months -- was returned to his family "with severe...
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP for not standing up to what they speak. Gandhi here said unlike Modi, the Karnataka government-led by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has been successful in delivering 95 per cent of the promises made in the previous election manifesto. His remarks came during t...
Police in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district on Friday said it has arrested a teacher for raping a minor student. Senior Superintendent of Police Syed Imtiyaz Hussain told IANS that the incident came to light when the alleged rapist took the girl to a hospital in Pattan town for medical termination of her pregnancy. "Doctors at the hospital g...
