In a setback to Tibetan religious head and 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje in a currency seizure case, the Himachal Pradesh High Court on Wednesday set aside the trial court decision to drop charges against him, and asked the state government to initiate criminal proceed against him.


Start criminal proceedings against Karmapa: Himachal HC


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Women activists on Wednesday condemned St. Stephen's principal Valson Thampu's for "mishandling" the sexual harassment case, saying the fight for gender justice had nothing to do with the college's minority status.


No link between gender justice, St.Stephen's minority status: Activists


The NIA has sought court permission to conduct trial against suspected top LeT terrorist Abu Jundal via video conferencing, fearing he could be killed or kidnapped during transit between jail and court.


NIA requests Jundal trial through video conferencing


A special court hearing coal block allocation case allegedly involving Jharkhand Ispat Pvt Ltd. (JIPL) on Wednesday recorded the statements of two Central Bureau of Investigation officials.


Coal block case: Two CBI officials' statement recorded


The Delhi High Court on Wednesday set aside the state government's order rejecting an application of the US-based Uber taxi service for a licence to ply in the national capital.


Delhi HC sets aside rejection of Uber's licence plea


An Iraqi court on Wednesday sentenced 24 people to death over charges of killing about 1,700 soldiers when the Islamic State (IS) militants seized the city of Tikrit, the capital of Salahudin province, in June 2014, a judicial spokesman said.


24 sentenced to death for massacre of Iraqi soldiers


Two Myanmar nationals, who are accused of murdering two British tourists in southern Thailand last year, appeared before a court on the resort island of Koh Samui on Wednesday.


British tourist-murder suspects tried on Thai island


The Delhi High Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a plea seeking directions to the government to carry out the quality test on imported Chinese rice.


Delhi HC to hear plea against Chinese 'plastic' rice


The FBI has launched a national campaign to spread awareness on sexual extortion, or sextortion, on the internet, and hunt for over 240 child pornography victims of a man in Florida, jailed for 105 years in November, Efe news agency reported on Wednesday.


FBI hunts for child sextortion victims of jailed man


The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea seeking a SIT probe into the claims that underworld don Dawood Ibrahim wanted to return to India and face the law but previous governments did not respond to the offer.


SC dismisses plea on Dawood Ibrahim


Athens, July 8 (IANS/EFE) At least 17 people were reported missing after a refugee ship, with over 30 undocumented migrants onboard, sank in the Aegean Sea, according to Greek media.


17 migrants go missing after Greece-bound ship sinks


The white shooter who had been charged with killing nine African-Americans in a racially-motivated shooting spree in a church in South Carolina state last month was indicted on three additional murder charges, a media report said.


Charleston shooter charged with additional murder counts


The Supreme Court will hear on Thursday a plea by Congress leader Digvijaya Singh and three whistle-blowers seeking an apex court monitored CBI probe into the Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh and the spate of deaths of the people related to it.


SC to hear Digvijaya's plea on Vyapam on July 9


A US court has sentenced the former Indian American head of a Chicago investment firm to six years in prison for stealing more than $9 million in a ponzi scheme, a media report said Tuesday.


Indian American gets six years jail for ponzi scheme


The Delhi High Court on Tuesday restrained the state government from taki ng any coercive action against three tobacco manufacturers till July 16.


No coercive action against tobacco manufacturers, sellers: Court


The Sahara Group on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it was not possible for it to repay, in 18 months, Rs.36,000 crore of investors' money that it had collected in 2007-08 in 18 months as was ordered by the court on June 17.


Can't pay Rs.36,000 crore in 18 months, Sahara tells SC


A court on Tuesday dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of Delhi's former law minister Somnath Bharti, accused of harassing his wife, saying his application was premature as there was no FIR lodged against him.


Somnath Bharti's anticipatory bail plea dismissed


The Odisha government would implement the National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013, in the state by September 30 as fixed by the Centre, said Food and Consumer Welfare Minister Sanjay Dasburma on Tuesday.


Odisha to implement food security act by September


A same-sex couple in the US state of Texas has filed a lawsuit against an official who refused to issue marriage licences to homosexual couples despite a June-end Supreme Court ruling that legalises gay marriages across the US.


Denied marriage licence, same-sex couple sues US official


Three Saudi brothers have been arrested on a "strong suspicion" of having links with last month's bombing of a Shia mosque in Kuwait, the Saudi interior ministry said on Tuesday.


Saudi brothers arrested for Kuwait mosque attack


A city court on Tuesday sent Telugu Desam Party (TDP) legislator Sandra Venkata Veeraiah to judicial custody for 14 days in the cash-for-vote case.

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