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47 suspects detained in anti-terror operations in Turkey after Ankara blast

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At least 47 suspects have been detained in anti-terror operations across Turkey following the deadly suicide bombing in Ankara, the country’s state-run Anadolu Agency reported today. In Istanbul, police backed by helicopters arrested at least 20 people suspected of having links to the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party or PKK. The agency reported that Istanbul’s anti-terrorism […]

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Debris found on remote Indian Ocean island unlikely to be from MH370, says Australia

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A piece of debris recently found on an Indian Ocean island where a wing fragment from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 had previously washed ashore is unlikely to be from the missing plane, Australian officials said on Wednesday. The piece in question was discovered earlier this month on French-governed Reunion Island by Johnny Begue, the same

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Indian-American Srinivasan one of two men being considered for SC bench by Barack Obama, say sources

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Indian-American legal luminary Sri Srinivasan is among the two persons zeroed in on by US President Barack Obama for the post of Supreme Court judge. Obama is likely to choose either Srinivasan or Merrick Garland as his pick for the Supreme Court nominee and could announce his decision as early as Wednesday. If chosen, 48-year-old

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Pakistani court lifts travel ban on ex-President Pervez Musharraf

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A defense lawyer says Pakistan’s Supreme Court has lifted a travel ban imposed on the country’s former president, Pervez Musharraf since. Farogh Naseem says the ban, imposed in early 2013, was removed in Wednesday’s court ruling. The attorney says Musharraf has been ill for a long time and may need to travel abroad for treatment.

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Parliamentary panel gets sixth extension on Land bill after many states failed to furnish vital details

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The Joint Committee of Parliament that is examining the contentious land bill was granted a sixth extension of its term for over four months on Wednesday on grounds that several states are yet to furnish details to it on a clause relating to compensation. Panel chairman S S Ahluwalia (BJP) moved a motion in the

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Times Now told to apologise for Jasleen Kaur story: All media houses should take note

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The News Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA) has asked news channel Times Now to issue an apology and pay a fine for its reportage on the Jasleen Kaur case. For those who don’t remember, Kaur is a student of the Delhi University who had accused Sarabjit Singh of harassing her verbally at a road crossing in

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Hrithik Roshan, Kangana Ranaut legal mess: All dirty secrets are out

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Linkups and rumoured linkups aren’t new to Bollywood. However, actors Kangana Ranaut and Hrithik Roshan are taking it to a whole new level. The contents of the legal notice that the co-actors of superhero flick Krrish 3 have sent each other have opened a can of worms. The legal notice that Hrithik sent to Kangana,

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JNU row: ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans raised by outsiders, university report says

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Provocative slogans like ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ were raised at controversial JNU event by a group of masked outsiders, a high-level inquiry committee of the varsity has said. However, the report about the JNU case said video footages of the February 9 event does not show anyone raising the slogan “Bharat Ki Barbadi tak jung rahegi” (Fight

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Turkey fears escalation in Kurdish conflict after Ankara bombing

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Sunday’s suicide car bombing in Ankara has raised fears of an escalation in Turkey’s long-running Kurdish conflict, as the country grapples with the Islamic State threat while relying on a security system weakened by a political crackdown, analysts say. No-one has claimed responsibility for the blast which killed 35 people in the heart of the

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Kerry to visit Moscow as Russian pullout boosts Syria peace hopes

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US Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Russia next week to discuss the Syria crisis, Washington said on Tuesday, after Moscow began withdrawing most of its forces from the country. Kerry said he would hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin to “try to take advantage of this moment,” which he described as the

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Tirupur Dalit murder: Five held for brutal attack on the couple remanded in judicial custody

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Five men, arrested in connection with the brutal murder of a Dalit youth in front of his upper caste Hindu wife in Tirupur district, were remanded in judicial custody today. The five – Manikandan, Jagadeeshwaran, Madan alias Michael, Selvakumar and Manikandan – were produced before the Udumalpet Judicial Magistrate R Srividhya, who ordered that they

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ICC World T20: Nagpur pitch was poor but batsmen must cop more blame for India’s defeat to New Zealand

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Poor. Well, that is one way to describe India’s capitulation against New Zealand in the ICC World Twenty20 opener. But that word has another association when it comes to Nagpur. For the second consecutive international cricket match in Nagpur featuring India, the 22 yards in the middle is hogging the limelight. Remember the recent series

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Mumbai dance bars to reopen amid worries trafficking of women may rise

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After a 10-year hiatus, dance bars are set to reopen in Mumbai and Maharashtra state with activists warning women and girls could be trafficked and abused in these venues but bar owners arguing this is legitimate, needed work. Maharashtra in 2005 suspended the licences of hundreds of bars and hotels that featured skimpily dressed women

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4 Kashmiri students beaten up in Rajasthan over beef cooking rumours

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A mob beat up four Kashmiri students at a private university in Rajasthan over rumours that they were cooking beef inside their hostel rooms in a campus that is vegetarian by policy. As reported in the Indian Express newspaper, the incident led to scuffles with Kashmiri students at Mewar University in Chittorgarh. There are around

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Turkey arrests three academics on ‘terrorist propaganda’ charges

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Turkish authorities arrested three academics on charges of “terrorist propaganda” on Tuesday after they publicly read out a declaration reiterating a call to end security operations in the mainly Kurdish southeast. Police also detained a British national at the courthouse that ordered the arrests after finding him with pamphlets printed by parliament’s Peoples’ Democratic Party

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Meet Pinky Lalwani, the woman who accompanied Vijay Mallya to London on March 2

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The `King of Good Times’, liquor baron Vijay Mallya took Jet Airways flight 9W122 to London on March 2, as he was facing the heat from the lending banks, to whom he owes US$ 1 billion in debts. He was accompanied by a woman passenger, all media channels reported. The media channels also reported that

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Russian warplanes leave Syria, raising UN hopes for peace talks

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The morning after Vladimir Putin ordered the surprise withdrawal of Moscow’s military contingent in Syria, Russia’s defence ministry said a first group of planes had left the Hmeymim airbase near Latakia. Putin’s announcement that Russia’s objectives had been “generally accomplished” after five and a half months of bombing raids came in a televised meeting on

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Assam Assembly Elections: Congress list out, Tarun Gogoi to contest from Titabar

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Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi will contest from the Congress bastion of Titabar, according to the list of the first 65 candidates released by the party high command here on Tuesday. The party is fielding former union minister Pawan Ghatowar from Moran, while sitting member Rajib Lochan Pegu will take on BJP’s chief ministerial candidate

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Man slits girl’s throat, consumes poison in Ghaziabad

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A postgraduate student on Tuesday allegedly slit a 22-year-old female student’s throat before consuming poison at their college premises here, police said. The victim was a second-year BA at Shambhu Dayal Post Graduate College and allegedly in a relationship with the accused, Prashant, Superintendent of police (city) Salman Taj Patil said. Hearing the girl’s screams,

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Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s family pictures found in Gumnami Baba’s box

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The mystery surrounding Gumnami Baba, who many believe was Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose living incognito in Uttar Pradesh’s Faizabad district, turned deeper on Tuesday with old photographs of the Bose family retrieved from the district treasury. Apart from a family portrait, there’s a photograph of Netaji’s parents, Jankinath Bose and Prabhawati Bose, in the inventory,

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Police kill one man in Belgian raid linked to Paris attacks

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Belgian and French police investigating a suspected link with the November attacks in Paris stormed a Brussels house Tuesday after being fired upon, and killed a suspect armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, authorities said. Three Belgian and one French police officer were slightly wounded in the operation. “We had a lot of luck,” Belgian

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