The Supreme Court in Australia’s Queensland state has overturned a law banning Sikh religious dagger (kirpan) on school grounds calling it “unconstitutional”.The ruling by the state’s highest court came after Kamaljit Kaur Athwal took the state government to court last year, claiming that the ban discriminated against the kirpan — one of five religious symbols […]
Three Army personnel were killed in an encounter with militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Friday, officials said.Security forces launched a cordon-and-search operation in the higher reaches of the Halan forest area of Kulgam district in south Kashmir following inputs about the presence of militants there, a police official said. He said the […]
Singapore hanged a third prisoner in two weeks on Thursday for drug trafficking despite calls for the city-state to halt capital punishment for drug-related crimes.The Central Narcotics Bureau said Mohamed Shalleh Abdul Latiff, a 39-year-old Singaporean, was executed at Singapore’s Changi Prison after being accorded due process under the law. He was sentenced to death […]
The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) will continue to conduct a survey at the Gyanvapi premises to determine if the mosque was built upon a temple, the Allahabad High Court ruled today, saying it is “in the interest of justice”. The High Court dismissed the Muslim side’s petition against a Varanasi court order that had […]
Lok Sabha continued to witness disruptions on Thursday and the proceedings were adjourned till 2pm amid protests by opposition members on the Manipur issue.Speaker Om Birla, who is learnt to be upset at the repeated disruptions of the House, did not chair the proceedings during Question Hour for the second consecutive day on Thursday. Opposition […]
Vladimir Putin hoped to project strength by posing shirtless on a horse. Donald Trump, imagining himself even stronger, pasted his face onto images of Sylvester Stallone’s rippling torso.But when Joe Biden ditched his shirt Sunday, he apparently just wanted to catch a few rays.A picture taken of the 80-year-old US president sunning himself shirtless on […]
The violence that initially erupted in Haryana’s Nuh during a religious procession has now spread to Gurugram, where protesters from two communities clashed near Sohna Road, resulting in damage to several vehicles.During the confrontation, three vehicles were damaged, and one was set on fire along the Sohna Road highway. The situation escalated with stone pelting, […]
Police in Pakistan’s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province said on Monday that an initial probe has suggested that the banned terrorist group ISIS is behind the suicide attack on a political convention of a hardline Islamist party that killed at least 44 people and injured over 100.The attack took place on Sunday when more than 400 […]
Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur on Monday appealed to the opposition parties “not to disturb peace in Manipur” and instead discuss the matter in Parliament.“The government has said from day one that we are ready to discuss Manipur. What is the opposition’s compulsion that it is running away?” Thakur said, also wondering whether […]