A report by the Evening Standard claimed that Pistorius had been taking too long on the phone with others waiting behind him and refused to hang up. In 2015 in a case that gripped the world, Pistorius was found guilty of the Valentine's Day murder of his girlfriend, the model Reeva Steenkamp. His original six-year sentence was ruled "inappropriate" by Supreme Court of Appeal judges last month,... [Full Article...]
Those spikes in interest were tied to several major events dealing with women's issues this year. Merriam-Webster bestows the "Word of the Year" honor on the word or term with the sharpest spike in look-ups over the previous year. " Feminism " searches also spiked in February 2017 after Kellyanne Conway spoke at the Conservative Political Action Committee. There were also spikes toward the end... [Full Article...]
The expenditure limit for Lok Sabha elections in the bigger states is Rs 70 lakh for each constituency. Yesterday, the Ahmedabad Police had turned down the request of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress from conducting roadshows by Prime Minister Modi and grand old party vice-president Rahul Gandhi . [Full Article...]
City leaders in Charlottesville, Virginia , on Monday denied applications submitted by far-right white nationalists to hold demonstrations next summer, The Daily Progress reports. In a video posted Monday evening, he adopted the language of the Justice Department's civil rights investigations, claiming that city officials had a "pattern and practice" of granting permits for left-wing events b... [Full Article...]
The union minister told ANI, " Congress ko samajhna chahiye ke jis Pakistani political patang ko woh Gujarat mein udane ki koshish kar rahi hai, Gujarat ke log Bharat ke manjhe se aise patang ko kaatna jante hai". While attending a press conference, Prasad said, "We completely abhor any outside interference in India's internal affairs". The attendees were critical of Pakistan's army, ambivalence ... [Full Article...]
Appleton held a vigil tonight in support of ending gun violence on the 5th anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting tragedy in CT. The normalization of school shootings has made it hard for those fighting them to get their message to rise above the din of the daily news. [Full Article...]
INSPECTORS have branded South Yorkshire Police as "good" in their latest assessment of the force. " Our challenge now is to ensure all of our officers and staff are more fully aware of this work and have the time and capacity they need to make the most of this available support ". [Full Article...]
Around 11:30 a.m., the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that a Palestinian woman had been shot, also in the Khuzaa area, with live ammunition by Israeli forces in the shoulder, and was transferred to the hospital where she was reported to be in moderate condition. [Full Article...]