Mumbai police is taking the Bollywood route -- a dialogue from  the forthcoming film "Dhadak" -- to convey a road safety message to travellers.


Mumbai police use 'Dhadak' dialogue to promote road safety


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To ease the life of transgenders and to bring them into the mainstream, the Delhi Government will form a committee to highlight and solve various issues faced by the community related to health, education and legal aid.


Delhi Government to form transgender committee


US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has slammed the "misleading and politically motivated" UN report on poverty and inequality in the country that accuses President Donald Trump of forcing millions of citizens into deprivation.


Haley slams UN report on US poverty under Trump


UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein had "compromised" the dignity and impartiality of the UNHCR, Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Friday.


UNHRC head has compromised its impartiality: Prasad


An Indonesian court on Friday sentenced a hardline Muslim cleric to death for his role in a wave of terror attacks that were carried out in 2016 and 2017 killing more than a dozen people.


Indonesia sentences hardline Islamist cleric to death


The American Civil Liberties Foundation has filed a class action lawsuit against the federal government in a court here for "barring" permanent residents from serving in the US military.


US government sued for barring permanent residents from serving in military


The European Union (EU) on Friday launched tariffs on some $3.2 billion worth of American goods, in retaliation for tariffs US President Donald Trump's administration imposed on imported steel and aluminium earlier this month.


EU launches retaliatory tariffs on US goods


The Pentagon has been asked to supply up to 20,000 beds at old military bases for migrant children held after illegally entering the US, a media report said.


Pentagon asked to house migrant minors


North and South Korea on Friday launched Red Cross talks to discuss humanitarian issues, including reunion of families separated across their borders, Seoul's Unification Ministry said.


North, South Korea begin talks on reunion of separated families


The Pentagon has been asked to supply up to 20,000 beds at old military bases for migrant children held after illegally entering the US.


US military asked to house migrant minors


A bipartisan group of 16 US mayors protested on the Mexican border in front of the Port of Entry in Tornillo in the US state Texas against the government's immigration policies.


US mayors go to Mexican border to denounce immigration policy


Rome, June 22 (IANS/AKI) Italy's hard-right, anti-migrant Interior Minister Matteo Savini on Thursday deplored attempts by German charity Lifeline to rescue 300-400 migrants in the Mediterranean, an operation allegedly taking place in Libyan waters.


Italian Minister slams charity for rescuing migrants


Investigating the recent spate of hunger deaths in Jharkhand, a Right to Food Campaign report has blamed faulty Public Distribution System and "alarming level of food insecurity" in the state for keeping poor people in starvation and "forcing them to die".


'Government's apathy behind Jharkhand hunger-deaths'


The truck drivers - forming the base of the logistics sector of the country - must be empowered and given dignity, panelists said at a conclave here on Thursday.


Truck drivers should be empowered, given dignity


Unaccompanied immigrant children held at a detention centre in the US state of Texas were forcibly given a variety of psychotropic drugs, according to a lawsuit.


Immigrant children forcibly given drugs in US centre: Lawsuit


The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to entertain a plea seeking restoration of the rivers flowing through reserve forests in Uttar Pradesh with their beds overloaded with sand, bajri (gravel), morang and boulder as it questioned the bonafides of the petitioner.


SC junks plea for restoration of clogged rivers


Minister of State for Home Affairs Hansraj Gangaram Ahir on Thursday said there is a need for smart policing and to expand the fingerprint database of prisoners as criminals are increasingly using technology.


Smart policing need of the hour: Minister


In a move to rehabilitate manual scavengers in the city, the Delhi government is all set to turn the 'safai karamcharis' into entrepreneurs by providing them loans to own sewer cleaning machines.


Special sewer cleaning machines to replace manual scavengers in Delhi


The Kerala High Court on Thursday asked police not to arrest the Kerala policeman, allegedly beaten up by a senior police official's wife and daughter, on the FIR filed against him by the officer's daughter.


Kerala HC stays arrest of policeman allegedly beaten by top officer's kin


The seat in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) vacated by the US will be filled by a member from the same regional group.


Member from same region to fill US seat in HR Council: UN


-- The vacant seat in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) left by the United States will be filled by a member from the same regional group, said spokesman of Miroslav Lajcak, President of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), on Wednesday.

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