Convicts in the Nirbhaya rape and murder case will not be hanged tomorrow. A Delhi court on Monday stayed the execution of the four convicts and deferred the matter till further orders. The convicts — Mukesh Singh, Vinay Sharma, Akshay Kumar Singh, and Pawan Gupta — were scheduled to be hanged on March 3 at…

India is bracing for a tough month ahead, as China is going to assume presidency of the United Nations Security Council for the month of March. Beijing’s Permanent Representative Zhang Jun will assume the presidency on Monday. This is the first time China will be holding the presidency of the UNSC since the special status…

It took a while but finally it’s here. Passengers will be now allowed to use Wi-Fi during flights in the Indian airspace as government has issued notification in this regard. The government notification says that subject to permission by the main captain, all flights will be able to switch on in-flight Wi-Fi for the benefit…

Customers will no longer be able to withdraw Rs 2,000 currency notes from Indian Bank ATMs as the bank has decided to load more of 200 rupee notes in its machines. The bank from March 1, 2020, stopped loading and dispensation of Rs 2,000 notes in its ATMs and said that the higher denomination notes…

President Ram Nath Kovind has rejected the mercy petition of Pawan, one of the convicts in the Nirbhaya rape and murder case. Earlier in the day, Pawan’s curative plea was rejected by the Supreme Court earlier in the day. The court had earlier in the day dismissed Pawan’s and Akshay Kumar’s Singh’s applications for staying…

Two people have tested positive for coronavirus, the government said on Monday, making them the fifth in India to have contracted the virus as it spreads across the world. ‘One positive case of COVID-19 has been detected in New Delhi, and one has been detected in Telangana,’ the union health ministry said in a release….

NEW DELHI: Over 160 rape cases have been reported on railway premises and onboard running trains between 2017 and 2019, an RTI query has found. While the number of rapes have gone down from 51 in 2017 to 44 in 2019, there was a spike in 2018 when the number of such cases rose to…

A woman has been arrested in Rajasthan’s Jhunjhunu district for drowning her four-year-old son in a water tank allegedly to take revenge on her husband, police said on Sunday. Jhunjhunu superintendent of police (SP) Jagdish Chandra Sharma said Pannram, a native of Budhaniya village, approached the Mandrela police early on Saturday and lodged a complaint…

BENGALURU: A businessman was hacked to death by a gang of 10 miscreants in DJ Halli on Saturday evening. The incident was recorded on CCTV cameras. The deceased is Bhatti Amjad alias Bhatii (40), a furniture shop owner. The police said that at 7.30pm, an armed gang attacked Amjad and killed him at a spot…

Kolhapur: The state Police arrested a teacher for his alleged involvement in a case in which a Class 10 student of a private school in Shirol taluka’s Shirti village, died in a hospital on Tuesday due to poisoning. Student’s attempt to fall sick to escape exam The deceased student, identified as Sanika Mali, was provided…

US President Donald Trump said Saturday he was ready to aid Iran with its outbreak of novel coronavirus if the country asked for assistance. ‘If we can help the Iranians with this problem, we are certainly willing to do so… All they have to do is ask. We will have great professionals over there,’ Trump…

The Union government will sharply focus on government schemes aimed at individuals, such as scholarships or houses, in the Union territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, in an effort to push its development narrative in the region. Earlier this week, cabinet secretary Rajiv Gauba chaired a meeting on social schemes for the two new…