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Top designer brands sent officers undercover as customers to catch out four shops.

A cashier working in the office of additional police commissioner (North Region) has been booked for allegedly misappropriating an amount Rs 18.40 lakh from the salaries and perks of police officers between 2011 and 2014.

Get to know 'Kolchak: The Night Stalker,' a cult classic that heavily influenced 'The X-Files.'

Justice Secretary Michael Gove has decided to campaign for the UK to leave the EU in the forthcoming referendum, the BBC has been told.

(AP) — State officials, private business owners and others who provide services to the public couldn't be punished for acting on religious beliefs that marriage should only be between a man and a woman, under a bill advancing in the Mississippi Legislature. Representatives on Friday voted 80-39 to pass House Bill 1523, which also specifies people couldn't be punished for acting on beliefs that only married couples should have sexual relations and that a person's gender identity is set at birth. Rep. Читать дальше...

Johnny Depp played the role of presidential candidate Donald Trump in a new video for Funny Or Die and now a behind-the-scenes clip has been released. The 52-year-old actor is seen pulling off the makeup on his face and it’s mesmerizing and a little frightening to watch at the same time. PHOTOS: Check out the [...]

Samaritans said it welcomed Facebook's commitment to keeping their users safe

Samaritans said it welcomed Facebook's commitment to keeping their users safe

There are a whole lot of people who think they have the right stuff to go to space. NASA said Friday it’s received a record 18,300 applications for its astronaut candidate training program. That’s nearly three times the number of applications the agency got in 2012 — the most recent class. Before that, the previous […]

Lead levels in the drinking water of Flint, Michigan, are “much, much, better,” said the research group that initially identified the contamination. New test results on lead in Flint water are “much, much, better than when we measured the water back in August, and children were getting elevated blood lead from drinking the lead contaminated […]

American warplanes hit an ISIS camp Friday in Libya where foreign fighters had been engaged in special, advanced training — possibly, a U.S. official said, ahead of a terror attack in Europe or somewhere else outside the North African nation. Noureddine Chouchane, a senior operative in the terrorist group from Tunisia, was believed to be […]

Former DU lecturer SAR Geelani, arrested on sedition charges for anti-India sloganeering at an event on February 10, was denied bail on Friday by a trial court which termed the offence as grave

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Fortune has put out its annual list of the most admired companies in the world, and tech companies are well represented. The list was compiled using data from the KFHG (Korn Ferry Hay Group), a global management company whose job it was to ask employees to "rate companies in their own industry on nine criteria, from investment value to social responsibility."

The firm asked 4,000 executives, directors, and security analysts to list the 10 companies they admired most, and wound... Читать дальше...

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The week ahead is full of critical events, including a flurry of Fed speakers and the G-20 ministers meeting in China.

Learning resources for 100 languages will be part of Bharatvani, a portal being developed by the University Grants Commission (UGC) to present India's linguistic diversity in cyberspace.

ALBANY, New York - Three scientists who worked at the New York State Police crime lab have sued the agency, alleging administrators retaliated against them for finding flaws in processing DNA evidence and pushing for new testing that would identify past errors.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Three scientists who worked at the New York State Police crime lab have sued the agency, alleging administrators retaliated against them for finding flaws in processing DNA evidence and pushing for new testing that would identify past errors. The three scientists said that had the system remained in place, it would have exonerated "a small percentage" of suspects who were convicted using evidence involving scenes with mixed genetic material. According to their court filing this week... Читать дальше...

Eight associations working in the camp, including Doctors of the World, sent a protest letter on Thursday to the French interior minister contending that alternatives proposed by the state are "very far from answering the needs of the problems encountered" and predicted migrants who refuse them could scatter along the coast. The order cited a series of problems, from violence by migrants trying to slow traffic to jump on a truck to growing anti-migrant tensions among extreme-right elements, a lack of hygiene and human dignity.

Union human resource development minister Smriti Irani has appealed to the University Grants Commission to allow 'any time, anywhere PhD facility for women' after going through a higher education survey report showing the ratio of women faculty was much less when compared to men across the country.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Anchorage police say a man killed during an attempted home invasion Thursday was shot by a juvenile. Police say 30-year-old Loren Douglas and at least one other unidentified person were apparently attempting to rob a home of drugs and money when Douglas was killed. Police just after 4:30 a.m. took a call that a man had been shot during an attempted home invasion in neighborhood about a half mile east of Dimond High School.

PORTLAND, Oregon - A Muslim advocacy group is asking authorities to look into the death of an Oregon man as a possible hate crime.