The Delhi electricity distribution company (discom) BSES on Thursday announced that special Lok Adalats to settle power theft cases in areas under its jurisdiction will be held on February 9 and 10.


BSES to hold Lok Adalats for power theft cases on February 9-10


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Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif will be indicted in the multi-billion Ashiana Housing Scheme case on February 18, the media reported.


Shehbaz Sharif to be indicted in housing scam case on Feb 18


In an innovative punishment, the Delhi High Court on Thursday directed Swan Telecom promoter Shahid Usman Balwa and four others to plant 15,000 trees in the Delhi South Ridge, observing that they have failed to file a response on an ED appeal challenging their acquittal in the 2G case.


2G case: HC directs Shahid Balwa, others to plant 15,000 trees


The Supreme Court on Thursday came down heavily on CBI Joint Director M. Nageswara Rao and prosecution in-charge S. Bhasuram Subha Ram for transferring a CBI officer probing the Muzaffarpur shelter home case despite the courts embargo against the transfer of investigating officials.


Contempt notice to Nageswara Rao, Subha Ram


An Indian-American man and his girlfriend have been charged with trying to hire a hitman to kill the man's estranged wife.


Indian-American man, girlfriend charged in plot to kill ex-wife


Senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Thursday called for scrapping the sedition law following the BJP-led Tripura government's order to file charges of sedition against those protesting the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill.


Sedition law must go: Chidambaram


Pashtun rights activist Gulalai Ismail has been released by the police here following her arrest earlier this week along with 17 others for holding a protest in the city, the police said.


Pakistan releases rights activist Gulalai Ismail


The Supreme Court on Thursday transferred the Muzaffarpur shelter home horror case trial to New Delhi and directed a Bihar court judge to expedite matters by holding it on a day-to-day basis and wrapping it up within six months.


Muzaffarpur horror trial shifted to Delhi


A US federal judge has sentenced a Chinese student to a year in prison after he pleaded guilty to illegally taking pictures at a restricted US Navy base in Florida, the media reported on Thursday.


Chinese student sentenced for taking photos of US naval base


Mexico and Uruguay on Wednesday in this capital proposed the so-called "Montevideo Mechanism," a four-stage process consisting of immediate dialogue, negotiation, commitments and implementation to achieve peace in Venezuela.


Mexico, Uruguay propose four-stage mechanism for peace in Venezuela


US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that by next week he may be able to formally confirm that the Islamic State terror organization has lost all the territory it once controlled.


ISIS-held territory may be fully liberated next week: Trump


The self-proclaimed interim president of Venezuela, Juan Guaido, on Wednesday ordered the country's armed forces to allow the entry of international humanitarian aid, which is beginning to be collected at storage centers.


Guaido orders military to allow entry of humanitarian aid


US President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced that he has chosen David Malpass, undersecretary for international affairs at the US Treasury Department, as the US candidate for the next president of the World Bank.


Trump nominates Malpass to head World Bank


At least 15 people were killed and several others injured on Wednesday in Bole-Bakundu, a locality in Southwest, one of the two troubled English-speaking regions of Cameroon, sources said.


About 15 killed in Cameroon's restive Anglophone region


Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's gender equality campaign Beti Bachao Beti Padao (BBBP) launched in May 2015, there is an emerging trend of Sex Selection Drugs (SSD), for pregnant women looking to change the gender of fetus from female to male, after a sex determination test done in private clinics and ultrasound centers illegally.


69 FIRs filed under IPC section of 420, PNDT act since 'Beti Bachao' campaign


Iraqi security forces killed five Islamic State (IS) militants on Wednesday in the province of Kirkuk, 250 km north of Baghdad, a provincial security source said.


Iraqi forces kill 5 IS militants in Kirkuk


West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday wrote to Union Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha urging him to take steps to regularise wage payments to contractual workers working in BSNL.


Mamata urges Manoj Sinha to address BSNL's contractual workers' plight


US President Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated David Malpass, one of his top economic advisers and a Wall Street veteran, to be the next president of the World Bank.


Trump nominates David Malpass to head World Bank


The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved an amendment to the Cinematograph Act, 1952, to tackle the menace of film piracy and copyright infringement making penal provisions of three-year jail term or Rs 10 lakh fine or both.


Cabinet approves jail term for film piracy


The government will soon file a review petition against the Supreme Court decision upholding the Allahabad High Court order for department-wise reservation in recruitment of university faculty, Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Wednesday.


Government to seek review of SC order on varsity faculty recruitment


An FIR was registered against real estate baron Sushil Ansal and some erring officials for concealing facts in his passport, the city police told the Delhi High Court on Wednesday.

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