May 20: A law student in Kerala last night cut off the genitals of a sadhu who had been allegedly sexually assaulting her for the past seven years with the knowledge of her mother. The young woman in Thiruvananthapuram has told police that she had been enduring the abuse since she was 16. She sai

Mobile messaging service WhatsApp has launched pinned chats feature for all Android users. With pinned chats, you never have to worry about scrolling through the long list of conversations to text your family members or your best friend. "Users can now pin up to three of the most important gro

FIVE accused in the Babri demolition case — former BJP MPs Baikunth Lal Sharma and Ram Vilas Vedanti, VHP international general secretary Champat Rai, president of Ramjanmbhoomi Nyas Mahant Nritya Gopal Das and Nyas’ invited member Mahant Dharam Das — on Saturday appeared before a Lucknow special co

A court in Barabanki on Saturday acquitted former Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) research scholar Gulzar Ahmed Wani in the 2000 Sabarmati Express train blast case. He had been in prison for for 16 years. Another accused, Syed Abdul Mobeen — who is currently out on bail — was also acquitted. The

Instant messaging platforms such as WhatsApp have proved their usefulness, with even the police using them to send alerts to citizens. With a rise in attacks on doctors and medical staff by patients and their families, the State police chief has decided to turn to WhatsApp to give medical staff a se

With speculation rife over the circumstances leading to the death of IAS officer Anurag Tewari in Lucknow on Wednesday, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah wrote to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday requesting him to ensure that it is “thoroughly investigated by a competent team of inve

“BJP-RSS workers are eliminating names of Congress voters from electoral rolls by fudging them,” All India Congress Committee secretary and Belagavi division in-charge Manicka Tagore said in Belagavi on Saturday. “That is because their booth-level agents connive with the registration officers and fu

BAGHDAD: Suicide bombings at checkpoints in Baghdad and south Iraq claimed by the Islamic State group killed at least 35 people and wounded dozens more, officials said on Saturday. The bombings, which hit Iraq the previous night, came as Iraqi forces battle IS in Mosul in a massive operation laun

Pakistani lawyers today gave a seven-day deadline to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to resign on the Panama Papers scandal otherwise they will launch a nationwide movement against him. The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) and the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) on Saturday announced th

All producers agree to extend crude output cuts by nine months to help trim a supply glut, according to Saudi Arabia’s energy minister. The extension through the first quarter of 2018 will help producers reach their goal of trimming global stockpiles to a five-year average, Khalid Al-Falih said.

Dubai: Ten new schools offering British, Indian, IB, French, Canadian and American curriculums are set to open across Dubai from September, it was announced on Saturday. As well as varying curriculums, the schools will have different price points. Among the 10 new schools, the Newlands School in

RIYADH, May 20,2017: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on Saturday presented Donald Trump with the Kingdom’s top civilian honor, as the US president began a trip to Riyadh aimed at strengthening security and economic ties. The king placed the Collar of Abdulaziz Al Saud around Trump’s neck at a cere

Dubai: Dubai will soon have more schools affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE), as the demand for the curriculum rises among the Indian expatriates here. Currently, Dubai has three of the five CISCE curriculum schools in the UAE, while rest of the Indian

The Dubai Police have appealed to the people not to republish or respond to messages that seek donations and make one believe that the money will be used to pay off the debts of those languishing in prisons during Ramadan. Major General Khalil Ibrahim Al Mansouri, Assistant Commander-in-Chief for

Police personnel will no longer be allowed to play judge, jury or the proverbial executioner in civil dispute cases, which more often than not trigger bribery and corruption within the force. Director-General and Inspector-General of Police R.K. Dutta, in a circular issued earlier this month, war

Students of pre-university colleges can rejoice as the Department of Pre-University Education has issued a direction to all colleges that students cannot be asked to wear uniforms. This applies to government, aided and private colleges, and will be enforced from the 2017-18 academic year. In the

Bengaluru: With the BJP demanding a CBI probe into the mysterious death of a Karnataka-cadre IAS officer in Lucknow amid suspicions of foul play behind it, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday said his government will cooperate in any enquiry into it. Tiwari, a 2007-batch IAS officer serving as com

New Delhi: India today pledged its commitment to eliminate tuberculosis by 2025, five years ahead of the global goal to reduce the number of such deaths by 90 per cent by 2030. Speaking at the 29th meeting of Stop TB Partnership coordination committee, Union Health Minister J P Nadda said that In