New Delhi: Delhi's Rekha Jhingan has been fighting the menace of drug abuse for the past 20 years after her own athlete husband took to drugs in 1991 and she didn't have many options then to help him get rid of the habit. Rekha Jhingan's day begins in the national capital's Hanuman Mandir. While many go there to seek divine intervention, she goes there to lend a friendly hand to...
09:18 AM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: Harassed passengers bear the brunt as Air India pilots refuse to budge from their stand. One of the agitating pilots said, "I want to go to Delhi and meet the minister, without the management. We have been ordered not to enter the premises. Either all of us go to work or we do not go. Dismissal letters have to be taken back." Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said, "First...
09:41 PM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: Soon after the Delhi High Court on Wednesday declared that the Air India Pilots' strike is illegal, the Air India management acted and sacked 16 more pilots. Admonishing Air India pilots union Indian Pilots Guild, the court said that the strike should be halted until hearings in the case are completed and also said no pilots should call in sick. Pilots represented by the union the Indian Pilots...
04:27 PM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: In a major crackdown, Air India on Tuesday sacked 10 agitating pilots, de-recognised their union and sealed its offices as around 160 of them failed to join duty. As many as four international flights had to be cancelled because of the strike. The pilots on Tuesday morning reported sick after their talks with management for a time bound career progress failed. By noon, Union Civil Aviation Minister Ajit...
09:24 PM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: Amity University on Friday dismissed allegations that the Northeast student Dana Sangma, who allegedly committed suicide after being caught with a mobile phone during an exam, was discriminated against. That's the vehement defence of the Amity university Vice Chancellor. She said that Dana was caught cheating using her mobile phone during her exams. "There is no biased of any nature in university on the bases of caste, region...
11:51 PM, May 04, 2012
New Delhi: Eleven years after a sting operation showed him taking a bribe of RS 1 lakh, former BJP President Bangaru Laxman was fined Rs 1 lakh and sentenced to four years in prison. His lawyers said they would contest the verdict and in the meanwhile Laxman will continue to stay in Tihar Jail after his conviction on Friday. Bangaru Laxman's body language clearly indicated that he was dejected with...
09:23 PM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: Eleven years after it broke, the Tehelka sting operation has returned to haunt the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). A court on Friday convicted former party president Bangaru Laxman who was caught on camera taking Rs 1 lakh bribe. As the BJP distanced itself from him, the Congress was quick to point fingers. Bangaru Laxman has been convicted in the 2001 fictitious arms deal case under the Prevention of...
08:58 PM, Apr 27, 2012
New Delhi: The year-long ordeal for the Bhattacharya family in Norway has finally come to an end. Their two children, Aishwarya and Abhigyan, are set to arrive in India on Tuesday after an Oslo court granted their paternal uncle Arunabhash, their custody. It is a story which put two nations and their governments at loggerheads. Two Indian children were taken away by the Norwegian authorities amid accusations of emotional disconnect...
09:00 PM, Apr 23, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi has been feeling the effects of several minor earthquakes in the past few months. In such a situation, an important election issue is building safety and illegal construction. But as CNN-IBN found out, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) may not be doing much to address the problem. More than 70 people died and hundreds were injured when the Lalita Park building came crashing down two years...
08:36 AM, Apr 14, 2012
Amroha: A government hospital is expected to be a safe haven for those who cannot pay for medical attention. But, a government hospital in Amroha in Western Uttar Pradesh has a different story as it has become a shop for babies. For a price, the staff of the hospital steal children of poor parents and sell them to the highest bidder. Here is the conversation between a nurse at the...
10:10 PM, Apr 12, 2012
New Delhi: Just a few days after a couple from Jodhpur in Rajasthan abandoned their baby girl, a father allegedly blinded by superstition, assaulted his six-month pregnant wife with an iron rod that resulted in a miscarriage. The 30-year-old woman from Andhra Pradesh lived to tell the tale of horror unleashed by her husband and his family. Six months into her pregnancy, she was brutalised by her husband with an...
09:36 AM, Apr 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi police has issued a lookout notice against the doctor couple who had locked up their 13-year-old maid and left for a holiday in Bangkok. What was more shocking is that the couple had left the physically abused child for 6 days with hardly any food in the house. The ordeal that the maid suffered will be hard for her to forget. Her employers, both doctors living...
09:26 AM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: It has been exactly two years since the day the MV Iceberg-I was hijacked and its crew were taken hostage. The hapless parents of Dhiraj Tiwari, one of the six Indian sailors taken hostage aboard MV Iceberg-I, say they have met almost all the powers-that-be over the issue but help is yet to come by. Abandoned by the ship owner, tortured by the pirates and forgotten by the...
06:46 AM, Mar 30, 2012
The cabinet on Thursday approved tough amendments to the Motor Vehicles Act. ...
12:12 AM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: The Child Welfare Commission (CWC) on Tuesday ordered that a case would be registered against the father of the teenaged girl, for cruelty and child abuse, who had brought a battered two-year-old Falak to AIIMS on January 18. The teenager will continue to stay in the institution as she refused to go with her father. The CWC has also demanded that past records be verified and legal action...
05:53 PM, Jan 31, 2012
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