US Senator Jeff Merkley has introduced a Senate bill aiming to stop the Department of Agriculture (USDA) researchers from euthanising kittens used in their work.


US Senate bill seeks end to kitten research deaths


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The Delhi High Court on Thursday reserved order on Special CBI Director Rakesh Asthana's plea seeking quashing of the First Information Report (FIR) against him.


HC reserves order on Asthana plea seeking quashing of FIR


Finding fault with the Supreme Court ruling on the Rafale deal, the CPI-M has said that "accepting notes in sealed covers, acceptance of government's arguments at face value, puts the court's reputation at risk".


Blindly accepting government's arguments affects SC's reputation: CPI-M


Nissan Motor Co.'s former Chairman Carlos Ghosn moved closer to being released on bail after a Japanese court on Thursday rejected a request by prosecutors to extend his detention.


Japanese court rejects request to extend Nissan's ex-chairman detention


Members of a Jacobite faction were arrested on Thursday after they prevented an Orthodox priest from praying in a church here in Kerala despite a court order.


Fresh row between Jacobite, Orthodox factions over Kerala church


Washington DC's top prosecutor is suing Facebook in the first significant US move to punish the firm for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.


Facebook sued over Cambridge Analytica data scandal


The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday questioned former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram in the INX Media money laundering case for giving Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance to the group in 2007.


ED quizzes Chidambaram for first time in INX Media case


Former Union Minister and TDP MP Y. S. Chowdary on Wednesday told the Delhi High Court that the Enforcement Directorate officials have treated him with indignity and denied him to have lunch.


Not allowed to take lunch during ED questioning, TDP MP tells HC


The CBI has filed a charge-sheet in a special court naming all accused in the infamous Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case, including jailed key accused Brajesh Thakur, an official said on Wednesday.


CBI files charge-sheet against Muzaffarpur horror accused


A Delhi court on Wednesday sent British national Christian Michel, the middleman accused in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal, to judicial custody till December 28.


Court sends Christian Michel to judicial custody


In another swoop in the ongoing probe into the Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam, the CBI on Thursday raided and arrested eight officials of the bank and directors of two private companies, an official said.


PNB scam probe: CBI raids, nabs bank officials, 2 others


Hamid Nehal Ansari, the man from Mumbai who was freed by Pakistan on Tuesday after keeping him in jail for six years on alleged espionage charges, called on External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj here on Wednesday and thanked her for her role in securing his release.


Indian freed by Pakistan meets Sushma Swaraj


The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016 that ensures effective regulation of surrogacy, prohibits commercial surrogacy and allows altruistic surrogacy to the needy Indian infertile couples was passed by the Lok Sabha on Wednesday by a voice vote.


Lok Sabha passes Bill that prohibits commercial surrogacy


The Kerala High Court here on Wednesday dismissed a plea by the eighth accused in the infamous actress abduction case, actor Dileep, for a CBI probe into the case.


Kerala actor abduction case: HC dismisses Dileep's plea seeking CBI probe


A 39-year-old man living in the US state of Arizona has been sentenced to 37 months in prison for threatening to kill President Donald Trump, officials said.


Man jailed for threatening to kill Trump


The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016 that ensures effective regulation of surrogacy, prohibits commercial surrogacy and allows altruistic surrogacy to the needy Indian infertile couples was passed by the Lok Sabha on Wednesday with a voice vote.


Lok Sabha passes Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016


A US man has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for a brutal attack on a Sikh American taxi driver in Seattle city last year.


US man jailed for attacking Sikh cab driver


The fate of 14 miners, who have been trapped in a flooded coal pit in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district for a week, remains unknown as rescuers are battling with the surging water level inside the 370-feet coal pit, an official said on Wednesday.


Fate of 14 trapped in Meghalaya mine remains uncertain


It could take 202 years for women to earn as much as men because the global pay gap is so vast and the pace of change so slow, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has said in a report.


Gender pay gap will take 202 years to close: Report


The US Senate has overwhelmingly approved a sweeping overhaul of the country's criminal justice system that would decrease America's prison population by lowering some mandatory federal sentences and giving inmates added opportunities to earn reductions in jail time.


US Senate approves overhaul of criminal justice system


Amid increased scrutiny of Facebook's role in generating hatred towards vulnerable communities across the world, the social media giant's Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg has admitted the platform needed to do do more to protect civil rights.

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