Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday said he would not recommend a CBI probe into the Madhya Pradesh Vyavsayik Pareeksha Mandal (Vyapam) scandal.


Won't recommend CBI probe into Vyapam scam: CM


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Sanctions against Iran have nothing to do with the country's nuclear activities or human rights record, there are other motives behind the bans, said Leader of Iran Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.


Ulterior motives behind sanctions on Iran: Khamenei


A court in Bihar on Saturday directed the authorities to file an FIR against actor Sunny Deol, director Chandra Prakash Dwivedi and writer Kasinath Singh, saying their movie "Mohalla Assi" hurt religious sentiments of people.


Bihar court orders FIR against Sunny Deol, others


A special court here on Saturday allowed the CBI's application seeking permission to place on record some fresh documents and adding names of six more witnesses in a coal block allocation case involving Delhi-based Rathi Steel and Power Limited (RSPL) and its three officials.


Coal block case: Court allows CBI to place more documents


Ovidio Gonzalez, 79, who was suffering from a painful mouth cancer that had disfigured him, became has the first person submitted to euthanasia in Colombia, his family said.


Man of 79 becomes first in Colombia to be euthanised


The Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has summoned the Yavatmal collector over the spate of suicides reported among Kolam tribal farmers of this district in the past few months, an activist said here on Saturday.


Mahrashtra farmer suicides: Yavatmal collector summoned


In an innovative move to educate rural women about the internet, Tata Trusts and Google India on Friday announced a special programme to send 1,000 specially designed 'Internet Cycle Carts' to remote villages.

'Internet cycle carts' to bring rural women online

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras urged Greek people to reject the "creditors' ultimatum" in the upcoming referendum over a debt deal draft, as the NO camp and the pro-euro camp held their final mass demonstrations in the centre of Athens.


Reject lenders' ultimatum Tsipras urged voters


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has slammed a decision by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to endorse a report accusing Israel and Hamas in war crimes during last summer's war in the Palestinian enclave.


Netanyahu blasts UNHRC for endorsing Gaza war crimes report


Marking a significant change in stance, India abstained on a United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution condemning Israel over a UN report into the alleged war crimes committed during the 2014 Gaza conflict.


India abstains in UNHRC vote against Israel


The Delhi High Court on Friday issued notice to the Delhi University, its Hindu and Hansraj colleges and Kerala government on a plea challenging the admission process for calculating marks from other state boards.


HC notice to DU, colleges on plea challenging admission process


Complications in the "One Rank, One Pension" (OROP) scheme for the armed forces personnel have been sorted out, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar told protesting ex-servicemen here on Friday.


Complications in OROP sorted out, Parrikar tells veterans


The State Duma, the lower house of Russia's parliament, passed a law on Friday, giving citizens the right to demand that internet search engines should erase all irrelevant information about themselves.


Russia's parliament gives citizens 'right to be forgotten'


Over 40 percent people living in India's rural areas prefer not to marry and live single, according to Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) data released here on Friday.


India's 40 percent rural people prefer to stay single: Census


Members of the public participating in a demonstration should not take the law into their own hands and should show some restraint while protesting, a Delhi court has observed while convicting six people for rioting in the capital almost 12 year ago.


Shun political vendetta while staging protest: Delhi court


The CBI, probing the multi-crore chit fund scam in Odisha, has filed in a special court here a preliminary charge sheet against three employees of the chit fund firm, Zodiac Foundation, an official said on Friday.


CBI files chargesheet in Odisha chit fund scam


Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Friday requested External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to take up with the British government the proposed amendments in their immigration rules which will affect nurses from the state.


Chandy seeks Sushma's intervention for Indian nurses in Britain


An attack by a suspected armed group on a sarpanch (village head) in Jammu and Kashmir demonstrates disregard for human life, Amnesty International India said on Friday.


Amnesty denounces Kashmir village head's killing (Lead, Changing headline)


Supporters protested in Granbury city, capital of Hood county in the US state of Texas against county clerk Katie Lang's decision to not issue marriage licences to same-sex couples.


Protests in Texas over refusal of marriage licences to homosexuals


A Delhi court has convicted six people of rioting, causing injuries to various public persons and police officials, and damaging public property in 2003.


Six convicted of rioting in Delhi in 2003


A 27-year-old research scholar who has accused a St. Stephen's lecturer of molesting her said on Friday that college principal, Valson Thampu, must resign if she has to get justice.

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