PIA, the carrier that connects India with Pakistan, is often referred to, in jest, as the short form of 'please inform Allah' by domestic flyers. ...
08:58 PM, May 28, 2012
Islamabad: The inconclusive India - Pakistan talks on easing visa rules have once again shown how it is the common man who gets affected the most. Sumaira Fareed runs a chain of salons and boutiques in Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Lahore. She is eager to visit India. "I really want to see the jewellery and the saris there. I want to see the Taj Mahal too," Sumaira said. Many others like...
10:21 AM, May 26, 2012
Pakistan's Internal Secretary Khwaja Siddique Akbar says the new liberal visa agreement between India and Pakistan will be implemented as soon as the two countries sign the documents. ...
12:17 PM, May 25, 2012
New Delhi: On, February 2, 2011, the first arrest in the Rs 30,000 crore 2G scam was made as former telecom minister A Raja was arrested. Fifteen months and 13 days later, the main accused, A Raja, is all set to walk out of jail after he was granted bail on Tuesday. This was the first time that the former telecom minister sought bail from the 2g court, even though...
09:48 AM, May 15, 2012
New Delhi: After spending close to 15 months behind the bars, former telecom minister A Raja will finally begin arguments for his bail applications. Sources say the CBI will oppose his bail but Raja's legal team will seek relief on the following grounds: - Raja has been in jail since February, 2011. Since all his fellow co-accused have been granted bail, so it's about time Raja too was given that...
08:27 AM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: Former Union telecom minister A Raja, who has been facing trial in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case, has moved a Delhi court seeking bail. The accused in the 2G spectrum scam has been behind bars for 15 months. He moved the court for the bail hours after former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura was granted bail by the court. Notably, as many as 14 people were arrested in...
04:26 PM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: Investigators probing the blast in 2011 at Delhi High Court say freelance terrorists, those without affiliations to terror outfits, are posing a grave threat and different brand of terrorists are now emerging. Terror groups from across the border, home grown red terror and now another challenge - freelance terrorists or what the National Investigation Agency calls leaderless jihadis. The NIA investigating the Delhi High Court blast of 2011...
06:36 AM, May 06, 2012
New Delhi: The National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) was his dream project, a nationwide counter terrorism body but it looks like the fate of the NCTC has been sealed even before it could take off. From a meeting with the state DGPs, to an amended standard operating procedure, to assuring the Chief Ministers in writing, the Home Ministry has done everything to break the NCTC logjam yet Chief Minister after...
09:47 PM, May 05, 2012
New Delhi: The stage is set for a renewed Centre-state conflict over the proposed National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh chairs a meeting on Saturday with chief ministers of ten states, including that of West Bengal, over the contentious issue in a bid to break the deadlock over it. Nearly three months after the Union Home Ministry notified setting up of the NCTC, its fate is...
07:27 AM, May 05, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI on Monday arrested AICC member Daljeet Singh Chaudhry over his alleged role in the Rs 35,000 crore foodgrain scam in Uttar Pradesh. The arrest came two days after CBI teams searched 12 places in Lucknow. Group 3 employees of the state food corporation and some alleged middleman were also raided for allegedly diverting PDS grain in Uttar Pradesh for export. Complainant Vishwanath Chaturvedi had last month...
11:58 AM, Apr 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Chhattisgarh government has launched a massive search operation for the Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon, who was abducted by the Maoists on Saturday. The Centre has also assured all possible help to the state. The Maoist insurgents abducted the 32-year-old IAS officer from Majhipara village in Keralapal area of the Naxal-infested district on Saturday afternoon after killing his two security officers. Asha Menon, wife of the...
07:42 AM, Apr 22, 2012
New Delhi: In more trouble for the Centre, a group of non-Congress, non-UPA chief ministers led by Tamil Nadu and Gujarat chief ministers, Jayalalithaa and Narendra Modi, respectively, severely criticised New Delhi at the Chief Ministers' Conference on Internal Security convened by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, Narendra Modi and Jayalalithaa also met separately after the meeting, sparking off political speculation. It was a picture post...
08:56 PM, Apr 16, 2012
A senior officer of CBI actually felt the 'dhar' of being the neighbour of the 'famous' Talwars. The officer was locked out of her house ...
10:09 PM, Apr 13, 2012
New Delhi: In a reprieve for controversial US historian Peter Heehs who faced deportation from India, the Union Home Ministry on Friday extended his visa by one more year with effect from April 15. Home Ministry sources said the formal order on extension of Heehs'a visa was issued on Friday. Heehs, whose visa will expire on April 15, had applied for extension of his stay before the Puducherry Foreigner Regional...
09:31 PM, Apr 13, 2012
New Delhi: In an interesting turn in the Aarushi Talwar murder case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which has been raiding many locations to find her mother Nupur Talwar, told the Supreme Court on Friday that it did not intend to arrest her. At around 1:30 pm, a white car with tinted glasses reached the Supreme Court and Nupur Talwar stepped out, putting all suspense to an end. Flanked...
09:06 PM, Apr 13, 2012
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