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Bihar bans all liquor with immediate effect

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said Tuesday that all kinds of alcohol would be banned in the state.

Apr 5, 2016

California and New York sign $15-an-hour minimum wage into law

Governor Jerry Brown signed into a law a bill raising Californias minimum wage from $10 to $15 an hour by the year 2023, making the nations most-populous state the first to boost pay to that level for the working poor.

Apr 5, 2016

Panama Papers: President Juan Carlos Varela defends transparency

Panamas President Juan Carlos Varela reaffirmed his countrys commitment to tax transparency after governments across the world began investigating possible financial wrongdoing by the rich and powerful, after a leak of four decades of documents from a local law firm that specialised in setting up offshore companies.

Apr 5, 2016

Wandsworth: Police seek man seen taking upskirt photos of woman at Tesco supermarket

Man accused of outraging public decency following an incident at a Tesco supermarket in February

Apr 5, 2016

Protesters demand resignation of Icelands PM Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson

A large crowd filled the square outside the parliament building in Reykjavik on 4 April to call on Prime Minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson to resign. According to local media, more than 10,000 people had gathered in the square and police said they had never seen such a great number of people demonstrating.

Apr 5, 2016

Panama Papers: Chinese, Russian media hit out at 'Western journalism' over Putin, Jinping links

The whistleblower leak is reportedly the biggest such expose, comprising 2.6 terabytes of data from a Panama-based firm.

Apr 5, 2016

North Korea releases propaganda video threatening to blow up South Korea presidential office

The country had recently released a video threatening to blow up Capitol Hill in Washington.

Apr 5, 2016

Afghanistan: Car bomb near school leaves several casualties, including children, says local media

The blast took place near a high school in Afghanistan's Parwan province Tuesday, according to TOLO News.

Apr 5, 2016

Journalist lands in trouble after tweeting morphed image of Modi, govt orders probe

The image showed Prime Minister Narendra Modi bending to touch the feet of Saudi Arabia's King Salman.

Apr 5, 2016

International tourists molested, beaten in Pushkar

The couple that was attacked has not registered an FIR yet, police said.

Apr 5, 2016

India 'staged' Pathankot attack, says Pakistani probe team: Report

It has been alleged India had killed the terrorists "within hours" but turned it into a "three-day drama" to get global attention.

Apr 5, 2016

Panama Papers: Probes begin, protests erupt after tax evasion scandal

Thousands of protesters came out on the streets of Iceland Monday, demanding Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson's resignation.

Apr 5, 2016

Migrants sent back from Greece arrive in Turkey under EU deal

Ankara will take back all migrants and refugees who cross the Aegean to enter Greece illegally, including Syrians.

Apr 5, 2016

Assam: 1 dead, 23 injured in IED blast near police station in Goalpara

The incident took place in Goalpara district where Rahul Gandhi addressed a rally earlier Monday.

Apr 4, 2016

Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca not responsible for ‘illegitimate activities’ says director

Tax authorities in Australia and New Zealand are probing local clients of a Panama-based law firm at the centre of a massive data leak. Other jurisdictions are likely to follow suit following the leak over the weekend of details of hundreds of thousands of clients in more than 11.5 million documents from the files of law firm Mossack Fonseca, based in the tax haven of Panama.

Apr 4, 2016