New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to look into the appeal of a Christian nun allegedly raped by religious fanatics during the infamous Kandhamal riots in Odisha, challenging the State High Court's rejection of her plea for cross-examination of a sub-divisional magistrate. A bench of justices Altamas Kabir and J Chelameshwar, which posted to Monday the plea made by senior counsel Colin Gonzalves on behalf of the victim,...
05:02:57 AM Feb 10, 2012
New Delhi: A 12-year-old boy died in New Delhi when he reportedly tried to imitate a suicide scene he had seen in a movie, police said on Thursday. The Class 5 student of a Sarvodaya school, Suhail, was found hanging from a ceiling fan at his Jafrabad home in east Delhi on Tuesday. His mother made the shocking discovery. The incident took place when the boy's parents Mohammad Salim and...
01:03:35 AM Feb 10, 2012
A 15-year-old Chennai schoolboy allegedly stabs his teacher to death inside the classroom of a leading city school. ...
11:46:25 PM Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: India has military deployment plans in place for exigencies in the neighbourhood. Provided the Maldivian government requested such assistance, India could have intervened. As violence swept through Maldives and President Mohammed Nasheed resigned, Indian Navy sources confirmed that they were on standby, primed for movement if required. In fact, sources in the Prime Minister's Office told CNN-IBN that they were worried about Islamic radicalism and that a military...
11:29:22 PM Feb 09, 2012
Upset with the teacher for pulling him up, a class 9 student stabs his teacher inside the classroom in front of his classmates. ...
10:18:50 PM Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: Doctors at AIIMS on Thursday said two-year-old Falak continues to remain in a critical state but was responding well to treatment. Admitted in a battered state at the AIIMS Trauma Centre here 23 days ago, her infection levels have receded, neurosurgeon Deepak Agarwal said. "The culture test of the blood and the chest sample showed no infection but the same was not in case of the brain. This...
10:02:20 PM Feb 09, 2012
Mumbai: In a relief for sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, prime accused in the September 2008 Malegaon blast case, the Bombay High Court on Thursday allowed her to travel in second class AC compartment to Bhopal for appearance in another trial there. The division bench of justices VM Kanade and PD Kode passed the order on the petition filed by Thakur praying that the authorities be directed to arrange travel by...
08:51:46 PM Feb 09, 2012
Port Blair: A policeman, identified in the video footage depicting members of Jarawa tribe of Andaman and Nicobar Islands dancing semi-naked, has been suspended. A departmental enquiry has also been initiated against him, police said. "The policeman identified as PC Claton was sitting on the road while Jarawa women were made to dance on the road for an unknown videographer," SP, South Andaman, SBS Tyagi said. "He was suspended yesterday...
08:20:41 PM Feb 09, 2012
The mercury plunged to 4 degrees in Delhi making it the coldest day in February in 30 years. ...
07:53:20 PM Feb 09, 2012
Jodhpur: Congress MP from Pali Badri Jakhar was on Thursday questioned by the CBI in connection with the Bhanwari Devi murder case. Sources in the agency claimed Jakhar had been approached by the slain nurse for taking up her matter with some top politicians to build pressure for a settlement on Mahipal Maderna, then a minister in Rajasthan who is one of the main accused in the case. Sister of...
07:41:59 PM Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government on Thursday said it will address the concerns expressed by the states over the proposed National Food Security Bill. "The states have expressed some concerns on the food security bill...we will address them," Food Minister KV Thomas told reporters after the two-day meet with state food and agriculture ministers on revamping the public distribution system. Thomas said his ministry will pass on...
07:36:00 PM Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry on Thursday sought a report from the Maharashtra Police on the claim that an arrested accused of the 13/7 Mumbai blasts case had met former al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2001. "We have taken serious note of the claim. We have sought a report from Maharashtra as we want to know details of the case," a Home Ministry official said....
07:19:48 PM Feb 09, 2012
Beijing: Concerned over the Chinese troop presence in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, India has taken up the issue with the top leadership here. The matter was raised by visiting External Affairs Minister SM Krishna during his talks with the Chinese leaders on Wednesday. Krishna, who met four Chinese leaders including Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, said India's concerns in this regard were conveyed during the talks. "On the issue of Chinese presence in...
06:57:39 PM Feb 09, 2012
Owner of Whistling Woods and filmmaker Subhash Ghai speaks on HC order to surrender land allotted to him. ...
05:38:52 PM Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: Essar and Loop group, charge sheeted along with its promoters, on Thursday moved the Supreme Court challenging the criminal proceeding against it before the special CBI court in the 2G case. They submitted before a bench headed by Justice GS Singhvi that the proceedings against them should be conducted before a Magistrate as the companies and their officials are not charged under Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA) like...
05:36:23 PM Feb 09, 2012
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