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London: Former Prince Andrew has filed a legal action challenging the warrants that authorised searches at two of his homes earlier this year as British police investigated allegations related to his links to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. A judicial spokesperson confirmed that Andrew...

New Delhi: A British Airways flight operating from London to Chicago declared an emergency while flying over Ireland, prompting the aircraft to squawk the 7700 emergency code and descend to around 9,000 feet, according to flight-tracking data Monday. According to flight-tracking website Flightradar24, flight BA295...

New Delhi: Former civil servants and rights activists Monday demanded Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar's resignation, issuing a "people's impeachment" notice that levelled six charges against him over the functioning of Election Commission and Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The group, which...

New Delhi: Delhi Police has registered four FIRs in connection with alleged violence during NSUI's protest in Parliament Street area Monday, including cases related to purported stabbing of a CISF personnel, rioting, defacement and obstruction of public servants, officials said. As many as 18 people...

New Delhi: Stressing the need to instill fear in the minds of anti-social elements, the Supreme Court Monday said there appears to be a feeling that women are not safe in the city, more particularly in some vulnerable pockets of the National Capital Region. A...

New Delhi: Supreme Court Monday came down heavily on actor Rajpal Yadav for failing to honour his undertaking to deposit money towards the dues of a private firm in a long-running series of cheque-bounce cases. On September 15, a bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant...

New Delhi: Three new judges were appointed to the Supreme Court Monday, taking its working strength to 37, one short of the sanctioned 38. According to Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal, Justice Sunita Agarwal, Chief Justice, Gujarat High Court; Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya, Chief...

New Delhi: BJP Monday announced the names of eight candidates, including minister Dharam Pal Singh, for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh. The other seven candidates are Radhakant Ojha, Prakash Pal, Vidyasagar Sonkar, Gopi Krishna Pandey, Priyanka Singh Rawat, Ram Pratap Singh Chauhan...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday said that it has not approved any modifications to Form 6 being used by the Election Commission (EC) during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in various states. Form 6 is an application through which an eligible...

Kathmandu: The Nepali government has decided to call off the search and rescue operations launched following the deadly floods that struck the country August 26, as hopes of finding survivors have faded, the Prime Minister’s Secretariat said Monday. Forty days after floods in the Bhotekoshi...