CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Electoral authorities on Monday certified that opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had gathered enough signatures to permit them to conduct a second petition drive aimed at removing the socialist leader from office. Officials said the opposition coalition successfully collected signatures from at least 1 percent …

New Delhi: A group of MPs have written to the Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan requesting that AAP MP Bhagwant Mann should be sent to a rehab centre for drug and alcohol de-addiction. The group, including Akali Dal’s Prem Singh Chandumajra, BJP’s Maheish Girri and suspended AAP MP Harinder Singh …

Mumbai: Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal and six other convicts were awarded life imprisonment in 2006 Aurangabad arms haul case on Tuesday. Two others have been sentenced to life imprisonment and three others were awarded eight years jail term, besides penalties, by a Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act …

Mumbai: Spanish-made high-speed train Talgo on Tuesday completed its third and final phase of trials from New Delhi to Mumbai, but arrived at its destination over three hours behind schedule. The train had commenced its final phase trial run from Delhi yesterday at 7:55 PM and arrived in Mumbai today …

Bulandshahr: UP Cabinet Minister and senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan has made a very insensitive and shameful remark on Bulandshahr gangrape. Shockingly, Azam Khan has said that the brutal gangrape of a mother-daughter duo in Bulandshahr could be a political conspiracy. “Elections are near and a desperate opposition can …

Punjab Congress chief Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday slammed the reported “innocent mistake” theory floated by the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) about chief minister Parkash Singh Badal having cleared the file for the construction of the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal in 1978. “Presuming that it was an innocent mistake, which …

A private bus owned by a transport company of Gidderbaha Akali leader Hardeep Singh ‘Dimpy’ Dhillon crushed a motorcycle borne couple in Zira, a sub division of Ferozepur, on Monday. The husband, Avtar Singh died on the spot while his wife was critical. The driver abandoned the bus and fled …

MOSCOW (AP) – Rebels in Syria shot down a Russian combat helicopter Monday amid fierce fighting around Aleppo, killing all five people on board in the deadliest single incident for the Russian military since it became embroiled in Syria’s civil war 10 months ago. The helicopter downing came as the …

ISTANBUL (AP) – Turkey summoned a German diplomat Monday over a court decision that prevented President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from addressing a demonstration in Germany, while the top U.S. military official visited Ankara as Turkey navigated through increasingly strained relations with key allies. The government has expressed growing annoyance over …

CAIRO (AP) – The weekend’s hot balloon crash in Texas has been a grim reminder of a similar but deadlier accident in Egypt three years ago, when 19 foreign tourists burned to death or jumped to their deaths from the burning balloon as their sunrise flight over the famed temples …