The bail petition of the mother of New Delhi-based journalist Nirupama Pathak, found dead at her Tilaya home in a suspected case of honour killing, was rejected by a local court in Koderma. Chief Judicial Magistrate
Lyricist and Rajya Sabha MP Javed Akhtar has been provided round-the-clock security following death threats received by him for allegedly calling an Islamic cleric "insane" during a television debate on a fatwa against working women.
Dawood gang members are using the old-fashioned ustra to attack their victims for some months now, reports Mid Day. The gang's latest such strike occurred on Thursday when serial bomb-blast accused and alleged Dawood-gang member
An IPS officer, who said L K Advani had made a provocative speech in Ayodhya moments before the Babri Masjid was demolished by Sangh Parivar activists, on saturday told a CBI court that she was
Respected as a deft politician, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat enjoyed the enviable reputation of 'Ajatshatru' -- for having friends across the political spectrum in his over five decades-long political career. The former Vice President, who died
Former Union Minister Natwar Singh on Saturday condoled the death of Bhairon Singh Shekhawat saying he was a popular leader with his roots in the village. Singh, who knew the former Vice President for the
Union Minister Farooq Abdullah on Saturday paid rich tributes to former Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, who died in Jaipur. Recalling the "great services" rendered by Shekhawat to the nation for decades, Abdullah said the
CPI leader and MP Bibhu Prasad Tarai was arrested on Saturday while trying to enter the proposed steel plant site of Posco-India ahead of an anti-project rally. "Tarai was arrested as a preventive measure to
Former Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat died on saturday of cardiac arrest, two days after he was admitted to a hospital in Jaipur complaining of uneasiness and breathing problems. 87-year-old Shekhawat breathed his last at 11:10 AM
An NGO, headed by social activist Teesta Setalvad, submitted documents in Ahmedabad on Friday, containing phone-call records of Gujarat Chief Minister's office and police control room during 2002 riots to Nanavati Commission, which is probing
Ruling out conspiracy or sabotage behind the helicopter crash which killed Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S R Reddy last year, the CBI has held that it was an accident which could have been averted
Six Indians on board a British vessel hijacked by Somali pirates in December last year from the Gulf of Aden have been released along with 20 other multinational crew after a ransom was paid. "We
A police constable was on Friday shot dead by unidentified assailants at Shah-Ali Banda area in old city of Hyderabad, where security had been beefed up since early this month in the wake of a
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged role of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in post-Godhra killing of ex-Congress MP Ehasan Jafri on Friday in New Delhi submitted its report to the Supreme Court.
An international environment body on Friday claimed to have detected sources of radiation in eight spots in west Delhi's Mayapuri scrap market, where exposure to radioactive material Cobalt-60 last month claimed one life and caused
After its fatwa that working in banks is un-Islamic, the Darul Uloom Deoband has now declared that opting for an insurance policy too went against the tenets of Islam. The "insurance policy is unlawful as
The water crisis in Mumbai will worsen if there is no rainfall by mid June, Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan has warned.“Only one month water supply left for Mumbai if there is no rainfall by
Four CPI-M supporters and a party worker were on Friday in shot dead by Maoists after they suspected them to be police informers and their bodies dumped on the highway at West Midnapore and Purulia
Government on Friday extended the ban on LTTE by another two years following intelligence reports that remnants of the Sri Lankan Tamil terror outfit were trying to re-group in Tamil Nadu. According to a notification
As many as 28 people were on Friday electrocuted when the bus in which they were travelling came in contact with a live overhead wire near a village in Mandla of Madhya Pardesh, officials said.
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