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.


Eight suspects arrested for Malaysian tanker hijacking


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The Supreme Court on Friday gave CBSE time till August 17 to conduct and declare the results of All India Pre Medical Test (AIPMT) for medical and dental courses for the year 2015-16.


Re-conduct AIPMT exam by August 17: SC to CBSE


A total of 8,044 children were working in garment industries in the national capital, a report said on Friday.


Over 8,000 children in Delhi's garment industry: NGO


The Supreme Court on Friday gave 18 months to Sahara to repay Rs.36,000 crore of the investors money which its two companies, SIRECL and SHFCL, had collected in 2007-08.


SC gives Sahara 18 months to pay up Rs.36,000 crore


The National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) is "reviewing" a proposal by the ILO to form a unique sector skill council for domestic workers in India which will eventually help in recognising domestic work as a skilled occupation.


NSDC, ILO working on skill council for domestic workers


A senior police official from Australia's Queensland state was charged on Friday and may lose his job for allegedly releasing video footage of his colleagues brutally bashing a handcuffed man.


Australian cop charged for revealing colleagues' brutality


A woman from Australia's New South Wales state on Friday won a legal battle to breastfeed her 11-month-old baby after a Family Court overturned an injunction that banned her from doing so because she got a tattoo.


Breastfeeding ban on tattooed Australian mother overturned


Malaysian authorities recaptured a hijacked oil tanker and the crew onboard was safe after the pirates abandoned the vessel, a naval officer said on Friday.


Malaysia recapture oil tanker, pirates flee


Wooing investors in the US, Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that the Indian economy is revving up under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, offering them "a lot of potential" for gains.


India story back to centre stage: Jaitley to US investors


"Excessive interference" by the judiciary in commercial arbitration is not good for the investor because it adds costs to Indian companies and the cabinet is considering changes in law to deal with that, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said here Thursday.


Excessive judicial interference not good for investors: Jaitley


Shock and anger engulfed America as police nabbed a white young man who killed nine people at a historic African-American church in Charleston in South Carolina, saying he was there "to shoot black people".


America shocked as white man kills nine at historic black church


The Supreme Court is likely to pronounce, on Friday, the verdict that will decide the fate of Sahara chief Subrata Roy and two group directors who are in jail since March 4 last year for not complying with the court's order to return investors' Rs.24,000 crores that two group companies SIRECL and SHFCL had collected in 2007-2008.


SC verdict on Subrata Roy likely on Friday


Bangkok, June 18 (IANS/EFE) Myanmar's opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has urged the government to "carefully" handle the country's ethnic minorities issue, especially the Rohingyas,


Rohingya issue must be addressed 'carefully': Suu Kyi


Tokyo, June 18 (IANS/EFE) The Japanese government will review a ban by Japanese traditional hot spring spas or "onsens" on foreign tourists with tattoos.


Japan to review tattoo ban


India's northeastern state of Nagaland has been highlighted by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as a successful case of safeguarding community rights over land and for practising shifting cultivation based on customary law.


Nagaland stars in FAO report on community rights


Nearly four years after Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan was involved in a brawl with a South African NRI businessman, a Mumbai court on Thursday referred the case for mediation.


Saif-NRI businessman brawl: Court recommends mediation


The Supreme Court said it will hear on Friday the CBSE's plea seeking three months time instead of four weeks given to it for the re-conduct of the All India Pre Medical and Dental Test (AIPMT), cancelled by the court following leak of the question papers.


SC to hear CBSE plea for more time to re-conduct AIPMT


Sydney, June 18 (IANS/EFE) An Australian judge banned a woman, who got a tattoo four weeks ago, from breastfeeding her 11-month-old child saying it will expose her baby to unacceptable risk, media reported on Thursday.


Australian court bans tattooed mother from breastfeeding child


A Malaysian Indian woman, who is believed to have committed suicide, recorded a video with her last words that has gone viral on social networks, media reported on Thursday.


Malaysian Indian woman records her last words


Lack of toilet facilities compelled a newly-wed woman in a Bihar village to stay back at her parents home, an official said on Thursday.


Lack of toilet forces bride to stay back at parents home


The Supreme Court will on Friday hear a plea to re-conduct the All India Pre Medical Test (AIPMT) examination it cancelled on Monday following a leak of the question papers.

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