With terror threats to the civil aviation sector looming large, a Group of Ministers on Tuesday cleared proposals to make the anti-hijacking law more stringent by including death sentence as a punishment. The GoM, headed
Trouble appeared to be brewing for the Digambar Kamat government in Goa as five ruling Congress MLAs are understood to have demanded the Chief Minister's removal and seven non-Congress legislators have backed their campaign for
The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday said it won't allow the entry of raw sugar into the state till all cane is crushed. "In the larger interest of the farmers the government has decided that
The condition of veteran CPI-M leader Jyoti Basu continued to remain critical on Tuesday in Kolkata as attending doctors said his immunity scale was deteriorating and he was given blood to raise haemoglobin levels. Hospital
The special 26/11 trial court on Tuesday in Mumbai resumed recording the final statement of Pakistani gunman Ajmal Kasab, who continued denying the evidence adduced against him by the prosecution. To every question put forth
In yet another attack targeting Indians in Australia, a 28-year-old man from the community was beaten up by a group of locals on a Sydney beach, prompting police to arrest one of the assailants. The
After remaining free from fog for three days, Met Department on Tuesday predicted a second spell of dense fog which is likely to descend upon the airport from tomorrow and affect schedules of several flights.
The crisis in Indian hockey on Tuesday in Pune deepened with the striking players walking out of an inconclusive meeting with Hockey India officials, prompting the establishment to serve a fresh 48-hour ultimatum to the
Three years after launching its first anti-satellite weapon system, China on Tuesday in Beijing, claimed that it has successfully tested a new technology designed to shoot down incoming missiles in mid-air, a strategic know-how possessed
Disgraced ex-Haryana DGP SPS Rathore on Tuesday failed to get any interim protection against arrest from the Punjab and Haryana High Court which asked the CBI to give its response on January 18 to his
The war of words in Samajwadi Party showed no no signs of abating with its General Secretary Ram Gopal Yadav on Tuesday rejecting reports that he had apologised to Amar Singh, who, he said, has
An Ahmedabad-bound SpiceJet plane made a landing under emergency conditions in Mumbai following failure of its air conditioning system which, many passengers said, caused discomfort and sickness. "There was some problem in the functioning of
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray has criticised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement that the government was working towards granting voting rights to NRIs by the time of the next general elections. "The Prime Minister should
In a landmark verdict against the Supreme Court, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday held that the office of the Chief Justice of India comes within the ambit of the Right to Information (RTI) law,
The Narendra Modi government in Gujarat on Tuesday suffered a setback with the Supreme Court directing a CBI probe into the 2005 Soharabuddin Sheikh encounter case. A bench of Justices Tarun Chatterjee and Aftab Alam
The condition of veteran CPI(M) leader Jyoti Basu continued to remain critical on Tuesday with his immunity level deteriorating. "His body's resistance to accept medical treatment was gradually deteriorating," Superintendent of the Amri Hospital, Salt
Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan on Monday said the Supreme Court collegium made a mistake in recommending the name of Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran for appointment to the apex
Three top Chinese officials were arrested on Monday in connection with the BALCO mishap which claimed over 40 lives last September. Three officials of M/s Sepco Company - Project Manager U Chunan and civil engineers
Disgraced former Haryana DGP S P S Rathore on Monday filed an appeal in the Session Court in Chandigarh against the recent judgement of the CBI court convicting him for molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra. The
The Army on Monday decided to slap show cause notices on four of its senior officers, including Military Secretary Lt Gen Avadesh Prakash, for their alleged involvement in a land scam at a military station
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