Prosecutors of Jarrod Ramos, accused of Capital Gazette shooting, have requested the jailers of copies of any letters he sends or receives.

Ramos is accused of killing five people and injuring many with a pump-action shotgun on 29 June 2018 at the Capital Gazette newspaper office in Annapolis, Maryland.

PTI; Dhaka, Jul 14 : India inaugurated its largest visa centre in the world in the Bangladeshi capital today to reduce the waiting time for applicants.

Bangladeshis constitute one of the largest number of visitors from a single country to India. Last year, India the country issued 1.4 million visas to Bangladeshi nationals, BD News reported.

Visiting Home Minister Rajanth Singh, who is here on a three-day visit inaugurated the centre along with his Bangladeshi counterpart Asaduzzaman Khan.

PTI; Kolkata, July 12 : CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury today said that law should be allowed to take its own course in the case of alleged child racket by Missionaries of Charity (MoC).

PTI; New Delhi, Jul 12 : Accusing the government of fusing "neo-liberalism" and "Hindutva" in education, the CPI(M) today called upon students, teachers and people in general to oppose the Centre's education policies.

New Delhi, July 12 : Retail inflation rate accelerated to a five-month high of 5.0 percent in June, government data showed on Thursday, driven by higher fuel prices and a depreciating rupee.

June was the eighth straight month in which inflation was higher than the central bank's medium-term target of 4 percent. Economists polled by news agency Reuters had forecast June's annual increase in the consumer price index at 5.30 percent, compared with May's 4.87 percent. 

AP; Mexico City, Jul 12 :  President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has said he will cancel the pending purchase by Mexico's navy of eight armed Lockheed Martin MH-60R helicopters from the US government.

Lopez Obrador mentioned nixing the planned USD 1.2 billion deal as an example of extensive cost-cutting measures his government will undertake.

"That purchase is going to be cancelled because we can't make that expense," he said during a wide-ranging news conference yesterday.

Kuldeep Singh Sengar has been charged for raping a teenager whose complains were ignored by police until she tried to set herself alight.

Her father, who kept pursuing her case, was detained by police and severely beaten. He later died from his injuries.

In April, nearly a year after her assault, the girl tried to set herself on fire outside the home of Uttar Pradesh’s chief minister Yogi Adityanath.

The sense of impunity enjoyed by Sengar, a powerful Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) MLA, and his brother, sparked protests across India demanding justice.

PTI; Colombo, Jul 11 : The Sri Lankan Cabinet has unanimously approved a move to bring back capital punishment for drug-related crimes, a senior minister has said.

Gamini Jayawickrema Perera, Minister of the Buddhist Order said that President Maithripala Sirisena had recently stated that he was under pressure to re-introduce capital punishment as a deterrent to serious crimes.

Ministry of Human Resources has decided to give Institute of eminence (IoE) award to Jio Institute, which does not exists.

The Jio institute will be owned by the Reliance Foundation, and will start in 3 years time. It has been learnt that The Government of India will provide 1000 crores funding to this privately held institute.

In a statement issued on July 10, Students Federation of India called it a “daylight robbery of public resource”.

Iran on Tuesday criticized India for not fulfilling its promise of making investments in the expansion of the strategically located Chabahar Port.

“It is unfortunate that Indian investment promises for the expansion of Chabahar Port and its connectivity projects have not been accomplished. India is expected to take immediate and necessary measures in this regard if its cooperation and engagement in Chabahar Port are of strategic nature,” Iran’s Deputy Ambassador and Charge d’Affaires Masoud Rezvanian Rahaqi said.

The US President Donald Trump, talking to the reporters on Tuesday morning, said that he expects to see the country (UK) in “turmoil” when he lands there for a two-day visit.

Trump spoke to reporters on the south lawn of the White House on Tuesday morning, before boarding Marine One to begin his trip to Europe.

All the 12 boys and their coach have been rescued out of the flooded cave. The boys and the coach were trapped in the cave since June 23.

"We are not sure if this is a miracle, a science, or what. All the thirteen Wild Boars (the soccer team) are now out of the cave," the SEALs posted on their Facebook page.