The Maharashtra government has held two clerks 'responsible' for the suicide of a farmer in Yavatmal and booked them for culpable homicide, activists said here on Tuesday.


Two clerks booked for Maharashtra farmer's suicide


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The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) order setting aside the dismissal from service of a sailor for slapping an officer and altering the punishment by directing him to undergo 75 days detention.


SC stays AFT order setting aside sailor's dismissal


At least 100 Britons have been jailed in France in the last year for trying to smuggle migrants through the port town of Calais to Britain, media reported on Tuesday.


100 Britons jailed in France for smuggling migrants



100 Britons jailed in France for smuggling miganrts


A US court had charged a teenager with attempt to support the Islamic State (IS) terror group, a media report said on Tuesday.


US teen charged for supporting IS


An Indian worker in Dubai, accused of watching a woman using a washroom in a mosque, was convicted of molestation and sentenced to three months in jail on Monday.


Indian 'peeping Tom' jailed in Dubai


The European Union (EU) on Monday launched a naval operation against human traffickers in the Mediterranean.


EU operation launched against human traffickers in Mediterranean


As many as 30,000 overseas nurses will be facing the axe under British Prime Minister David Cameron's new immigration laws.


Indians among 30,000 nurses in Britain facing expulsion


The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to the central and the Uttar Pradesh governments on a plea for a CBI probe into the killing of journalist Jagendra Singh allegedly at the behest of state minister Ram Murti Verma.


SC notice to Centre, UP over journalist's killing


Rose Valley official Amit Banerjee, arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the ponzi scam, was on Saturday sent to ED custody till June 24 by a court here.


Arrested Rose Valley official in ED custody till June 24


US President Barack Obama made another call for gun control as South Carolina's Indian American Governor Nikki Haley sought death penalty for the white young man who gunned down nine people at a historic black church.


Obama renews call for gun control, Haley seeks death for shooter


The UN on Saturday appealed for $1.6 billion to help millions of people in war-torn Yemen while warning of a "looming catastrophe".


UN appeals for $1.6 billion aid for Yemen


At least four labourers were killed and nine injured in Himachal when two factions of workers, involved in the IIT-Mandi construction work near here, clashed with one another, police said.


Four construction workers killed in clash at IIT Mandi


Washington, June 19 (IANS/EFE) The man arrested after fatally shooting nine people at an African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, was charged on Friday with nine counts of murder, police said.


Charleston church shooter charged with murder


A two-year-old girl, sexually assaulted by a ward boy of a primary health centre in Madhya Pradesh, has been awarded Rs.5 lakh compensation by the state government.


Rs.5 lakh for Madhya Pradesh sexual assault victim (Lead, correcting headline)


Venezuela's opposition revived protests, as a committee of Brazilian senators was stopped from visiting political prisoners, Spanish news agency Efe reported.


Venezuelan opposition protests as Brazilian team is sent back


The Delhi High Court on Monday restrained contractual employees of BSES Rajdhani Pvt Ltd from holding any dharna, demonstration or picketing within a radius of 500 metres of its offices.


HC tells BSES employees to protest 500 metres away from office


Vatican City, June 19 (IANS/AKI) World powers seem unable to solve conflicts causing "terrible suffering" to Christians and other minorities in the Middle East, Pope Francis told the head of the Syrian Orthodox Church on Friday.


Pope chides world powers for suffering of Middle East Christians


The shooting in a historic US church on Wednesday night has come to haunt those who lost their dear ones in a similar traumatic attack about three years ago by a White supremacist in a Wisconsin state gurdwara, killing six Indian-origin people.


US church shooting revives 2012 gurdwara attack memories


Karnataka is waiting for the Supreme Court approval to auction 15 more iron ore mines, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said on Friday.


Karnataka awaits SC nod to auction iron ore mines


Eight suspected Indonesian pirates were arrested near the Vietnamese archipelago of Tho Chu Island on Friday, hours after they fled from a hijacked Malaysian oil tanker, media reports said.

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