External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday introduced the Registration of Marriage of Non-Resident Indians Bill in the Rajya Sabha.


NRI marriage registration bill introduced in Rajya Sabha


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China on Monday trashed Turkey's allegations that nearly one million Uighur Muslims were subjected to torture and political brainwashing at concentration camps and prisons in the Xinjiang region.


China trashes Turkey's remark on Uighur camps


Delhi's electricity distribution company (discom) BSES has settled a large number of power theft cases through special Lok Adalats.


BSES Lok Adalats settle over 3,000 power theft cases


The Delhi High Court on Monday asked the state government to file response to a plea alleging that trained paramedics are not deployed in bike ambulance service.


HC seeks Delhi government response over bike ambulance controversy


Around 900,000 degrees of the University of Mumbai across various disciplines have been deposited with the National Academic Depository and are now available online, a RTI activist said on Monday.


Mumbai varsity 'graduates' to online degrees regime


A Malaysian court on Monday postponed the first trial of former Prime Minister Najib Razak, who is facing multiples charges of corruption involving state development fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).


Corruption trial of former Malaysian PM Najib postponed


Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison campaigned on Monday to block a bill that would allow ill asylum seekers in offshore centres get treatment in the country.


Australian PM seeks to block bill on ill asylum seekers


Malaysia's former Prime Minister Najib Razak, who is set to go on trial on Tuesday, faces years in prison if he is convicted on charges relating to the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) state fund scandal.


Najib Razak to go on trial over 1MDB corruption charges


Japanese women have ditched a workplace tradition that dictates they must give chocolates to male colleagues on Valentines Day, with growing anger at the practice of "forced giving", the media reported on Monday.


Japanese women ditch Valentine's tradition of 'obligation chocolate'


The Myanmar Army has bombed villages and are blocking civilians from accessing food and humanitarian assistance amid a crackdown targeting rebels in the troubled Rakhine State, the Amnesty International said on Monday.


Myanmar Army shelling villages, blocking aid: Amnesty


Tensions have escalated between activists of rallies and protests, better known as the marches of return, and Israeli soldiers on the border between eastern Gaza Strip and Israel, eyewitnesses and local radio stations reported.


Tensions rise on Israel-Gaza border


The New Zealand government said on Sunday that it will ban smoking in cars with children.


New Zealand to ban smoking in cars with children


The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) has added Hindi as the third official language to be spoken in the city's courts, alongside Arabic and English.


Abu Dhabi adds Hindi as third language in courts


When Google CEO Sundar Pichai refused to attend a US Senate hearing on September 5 last year and instead let an empty chair and a nameplate represent him, the gesture left many lawmakers fuming.


Lessons for India as Twitter refuses to attend House panel hearing (IANS Special)


Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Ltd has approached the Madras High Court to restrain the Justice A. Arumugaswamy Commission from probing into the adequacy or correctness of the treatment given to late Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa at the hospital.


Jayalalithaa death probe panel going beyond brief, Apollo tells Madras HC


Stringent penalties like jail term for adulteration and endorsing false and misleading advertisements by celebrities may still remain a distant possibility as the much-awaited Consumer Protection Bill has fallen off the priority list of the lawmakers as the last Parliament session for the BJP-led government in its current tenure comes to an end.


Bill seeking action against misleading ads, adulteration likely to lapse


A Canadian man who killed six worshippers in a Quebec City mosque in 2017 has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance for parole for 40 years.


Canada mosque shooter jailed for life


Pakistan's Interior Ministry on Saturday rejected pleas of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law Muhammad Safdar seeking removal of their names from the Exit Control List (ECL).


Sharifs' pleas for removal of names from ECL rejected


Canadian serial killer Bruce McArthur has been handed a life sentence for the murder of eight men and he cannot apply for parole for 25 years.


Canadian serial killer gets life sentence


A Pakistani academic was arrested here on Saturday "for participating at a protest", he said in a social media post.


Pakistani academic arrested for 'participating in protest'


The Delhi High Court on Friday asked Centre and Reserve Bank of India to file response to a plea seeking protection of privacy of the customer by immediately stopping the bank to share the details of the transactions of the customers and borrowers based on PAN.

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