Two people were killed and one person was critically injured in a shooting in the Canadian province of Quebec, CBC News reported on Thursday


Two killed in Canada shooting


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Lotte Group, one of South Korea's largest business conglomerates, came under fire for comparing its employees to cows as part of an internal campaign designed to motivate them.


South Korean multinational compares employees with cows


Guinea's ex-junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara has been indicted by Guinean judges investigating the massacre of 157 people on September 28, 2009, a judicial source told Xinhua news agency.


Guinea's ex-junta leader indicted over massacre of 157


The Supreme Court on Thursday told the CBI to probe the Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh including the over 40 deaths linked to it. The BJP welcomed the ruling even as the Congress and the CPI-M sought Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's resignation.


SC tells CBI to probe Vyapam scam, Congress wants Chouhan out (Roundup)


The Supreme Court on Thursday handed over to the CBI the investigation into the criminal cases related to the Vyapam admission-cum-recruitment scam and the over 40 deaths linked to it.


SC hands over Vyapam probe to CBI (Third Lead)


An Indian man facing deportation has escaped from an Australian immigration detention centre in Melbourne by climbing over a fence, a media report said on Thursday.


Indian man escapes Australian immigration detention centre


A special court hearing the coal block allocation case involving Jharkhand Ispat Pvt. Ltd. (JIPL) on Thursday recorded the statement of a senior CBI official.


Coal block case: Senior CBI official examined


Seoul's Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se on Thursday confirmed that some North Koreans abroad have defected to South Korea to escape dictator Kim Jong-un's "reign of terror".


Seoul confirms Kim Jong-un purges behind North Korean defections


Union Home Secretary L.C. Goyal met Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday after the Supreme Court issued a notice to Madhya Pradesh Governor Ram Naresh Yadav on a plea concerning the forest guard recruitment scam.


Home secretary meets Rajnath after SC notice to MP governor


Agro-scientist M.S. Swaminathan has expressed dismay over the starvation deaths in India despite the availability of a very large food grain reserve with the government.


Swaminathan dismayed by starvation deaths


In a bid to mainstream members of the transgender community, officials at the R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital here are mulling separate health check-up spaces for them.


Kolkata hospital mulling separate spaces for transgenders


The Supreme Court on Thursday handed over to the CBI the investigation into the criminal cases related to the Vyapam scam and over 40 deaths linked to it. The CBI will begin its probe from Monday.


SC hands over Vyapam probe to CBI


A special court on Thursday told the vigilance department to produce all records related to a scandal linked to Kerala Finance Minister K.M. Mani apparently to close the case.


Court seeks records to decide bar scam case closure


Australia's opposition leader had his credibility and reputation questioned by one of the country's most senior judicial figures at a major investigation into corruption on Thursday.


Australian opposition leader facing corruption test


Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been found guilty of bribing a senator in 2006 in an attempt to bring down the then centre-left government, media reported on Thursday.


Ex-Italian PM convicted for bribery


Australian hard rock band AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd on Thursday was sentenced to eight months' home detention for three criminal charges, media reported.


AC/DC drummer sentenced to home detention


The Delhi High Court on Wednesday took suo motu cognizance of a letter sent by the Supreme Court's Justice Kurian Joseph regarding the deplorable condition of 614 women inmates lodged in the Tihar jail here.


HC takes cognizance of Tihar women's deplorable condition


There is a compelling need for substantive representation of women on the boards of companies rather than a token representation through family members, Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi said here on Wednesday.


Need for substantive representation of women on boards: Maneka


A homeless man due to stand trial for the murder of a 50-year-old Indian-origin man last December has admitted to the crime, a media report said on Wednesday.


Accused admits killing Indian-origin man in Britain


A class XI student was killed and several others were injured in Manipur on Wednesday in violent clashes that erupted after police opened fire at protestors demanding a stringent law to check the influx of immigrants.


Student killed, several hurt in Manipur violence


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.

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