SANTIAGO (Reuters) -States have the obligation to cooperate in reducing emissions and protecting the environment to counteract climate change, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) said in ...

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday visited SKIMS hospital in Srinagar to enquire about the health condition of PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti’s ailing mother. Mufti’s mother Gulshan ...

Rejecting a writ appeal of the state government, a Division Bench of Orissa High Court here has recently upheld a three-year-old judgment passed by a single-judge Bench stating that maternity leave ...

Ruling BJP MLA Santosh Khatua on Thursday courted controversy after allegedly making ‘derogatory’ remarks against a prominent woman BJD leader, prompting a strong backlash and a demand for an apology ...

West Bengal Chief Secretary Manoj Pant on Thursday wrote to his Odisha counterpart, urging him to put an end to “harassment” of Bengali-speaking migrant workers in certain parts of the neighbouring ...

A team of aviation engineers from the UK is expected to arrive in Thiruvananthapuram on July 5 to repair an F-35B Lightning jet of Britain’s Royal Navy, as the aircraft remains stranded following an ...

Incineration of entire 358 tonnes of toxic waste from the defunct Union Carbide factory finally concluded as contaminated soil and packaging material were burnt at a disposal plant in Madhya Pradesh’s ...

The southwest monsoon remained active in Rajasthan where several areas witnessed heavy rainfall on Thursday, disrupting normal life. The highest rainfall of 136.5 mm was recorded in Jalore, the Jaipur ...

Efforts were on to trace nine people missing after the June 30 explosion at the Sigachi Industries’ pharma plant in Pashamylaram that claimed at least 38 lives and left 35 injured, district ...

Train services to the Barak Valley, Tripura, Mizoram and Manipur have been disrupted following a landslide in Dima Hasao district of Assam on Thursday, a senior official said. Northeast Frontier ...

The Delhi government on Thursday urged the Centre’s air quality panel to immediately suspend the fuel ban on overage vehicles and said it will also make “all out efforts” to resolve issues related to ...

The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Thursday granted bail to three persons accused of supplying adulterated ghee to the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), which administers the famous Sri Venkateswara ...