An inmate who was part of a murderous band of prison escapees dubbed the “Texas 7” won a reprieve from his death sentence on Thursday as the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the state to allow a Buddhist spiritual adviser to accompany him to the execution
Threatening drastic action against Mexico, President Donald Trump declared Friday he is likely to shut down America’s southern border next week unless Mexican authorities immediately halt all illegal immigration. Such a severe move could hit the economies of both countries, but the president emphasized, “I
President Donald Trump threatened on Friday to close the U.S. border with Mexico next week, potentially disrupting millions of legal border crossings and billions of dollars in trade, if Mexico does not stop immigrants from reaching the United States. “There’s a very good likelihood that
MPs rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal for a third time on Friday, sounding its probable death knell and leaving Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union in turmoil on the very day it was supposed to quit the bloc. The decision to reject a
U.S. President Donald Trump is considering imposing sanctions on companies from other countries that do business with Venezuela to cut off revenues to President Nicolas Maduro, Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton told Reuters TV on . “We’re moving exactly in that direction,” Bolton said
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the Congress has done a great disservice to the nation by coining the term “Hindu terror”, a week after an anti-terror court in Haryana acquitted a saffron-robed monk and three others in the 2007 bombing of the Samjhauta Express that
The Andhra Pradesh government today transferred the Director General (DG) of Intelligence AB Venkateswara Rao shortly after the High Court rejected its plea challenging the Election Commission’s order. The high court rejected the state government’s contentions, particularly that the DG had nothing to do with
In a major relief to thousands of ‘siksha mitras’ who appeared for the Assistant Teacher Recruitment Exam 2019, the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High court Friday quashed a government notification fixing 65 and 60 per cent as qualifying marks for general and reserved category candidates
BJP president Amit Shah is set to file his nomination from Gandhinagar for the Lok Sabha elections 2019 today. Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Union ministers Nitin Gadkari and Smriti Irani are among the top BJP leaders who will be accompanying him
A drug inspector was shot dead in her office in Punjab’s Kharar town today. The accused fired two rounds at her with his licensed revolver and then shot himself, the police said. The accused, however, survived and was taken to a hospital. The woman, identified