
Australia, are taking this as a practice series ahead of the upcoming ICC World Twenty20 in September. ...

09:20 PM, Sep 04, 2012

Chennai: The hearing on the anticipatory bail plea of Union Minister MK Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi has been adjourned till next Monday. The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court will hear his plea in the granite mining scam. Dayanidhi was director of one of the eight mining companies named in the 17 FIRs. The police had issued a look out notice against him and several others for their alleged...

11:26 AM, Sep 04, 2012

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court is likely to hear former BJP President Bangaru Laxman's bail plea in a bribery case. He is serving an 11-year jail term after he was caught taking a bribe on camera in a sting operation in 2001. Laxman's petition also seeks quashing of charges in the case. ...

10:36 AM, Sep 04, 2012

New Delhi: Aruna Chadha, an accused in former flight attendant Geetika Sharma's suicide case, moved a bail application in a Delhi court on Friday. A close associate of Chadha told IANS that her bail plea would be heard in the court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Devender Kumar Jangala on Saturday. Chadha was an official of the now-defunct MDLR Airlines where Geetika too worked. She was arrested on August 8...

09:30 AM, Sep 01, 2012

New Delhi: In a significant ruling, the Supreme Court on Friday said an absconding accused, who has also been declared a proclaimed offender, cannot be accorded the benefit of anticipatory bail. "Normally, when the accused is absconding and declared a proclaimed offender, there is no question of granting anticipatory bail," said a bench of justices P Sathasivam and Ranjan Gogoi. "We reiterate that when a person against whom a warrant...

07:40 PM, Aug 31, 2012

Pakistan scored just 198 in the first ODI against Australia at Sharjah, losing the match by four wickets. ...

02:33 PM, Aug 29, 2012

Hyderabad: Suspended judge K Lakshminarasimha Rao and others, who had mediated with the associates of former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy to secure his bail, is learnt to have initially demanded Rs 500 crore from the mining baron. But the deal did not shape up as the then CBI special court judge B Nagamaruthi Sarma refused to grant bail. This was revealed by a chartered accountant-cum-realtor P Krishna Prasad in...

12:08 PM, Aug 29, 2012

Kochi: The Kerala High Court will on Monday hear CPM leader P Jayarajan's bail petition in connection with the Abdul Shukkoor murder case. The court had asked the state government to present its view on the bail petition on Monday. The High Court on Tuesday granted bail to CPM MLA T V Rajesh, who was arrested in connection with the murder of the IUML activist. Rajesh, charged under IPC Section...

11:56 AM, Aug 27, 2012

New Delhi: Delhi Police is likely to question Bollywood starlet Nupur Mehta in the Geetika Sharma suicide case. Nupur Mehta was a vice president in the now defunct MDLR Airlines, the aviation company floated by former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda, key accused in the Geetika suicide case. Another MDLR official Shivroop's role in sending forged emails to Emirates Airlines when Geetika was working in Dubai is also being investigated....

12:01 PM, Aug 22, 2012

Hyderabad: BSR Congress founder B Sreeramulu on Tuesday appeared before the Andhra Pradesh Anti-Corruption Bureau on Hyderabad in connection with the ongoing probe in the cash-for-bail scandal involving jailed former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy. Sreeramulu, a Bellary (Rural) MLA and close associate of Janardhan Reddy, was served notice by the ACB which sought to record his statement in connection with the bail scandal case. In its remand report submitted...

05:54 PM, Aug 21, 2012

Bangalore: A Bangalore court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing of French diplomat Pascal Mazurier's bail plea in connection with a molestation case till August 30. Mazurier was accused by his wife of molesting their three-year-old daughter, following which a case was filed against him. Mazurier is currently lodged in the Parapana Agrahara jail. ...

01:19 PM, Aug 21, 2012

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court would deliver on Friday its verdict on the anticipatory bail plea of absconding former Haryana Minister Gopal Goyal Kanda, the key accused in former air hostess Geetika Sharma suicide case. Justice PK Bhasin, who had reserved his order on Kanda's bail plea after a day-long hearing on August 14, would pronounce it at 4 pm on Friday. A magisterial court, meanwhile, issued a NBW...

05:31 AM, Aug 17, 2012

Hyderabad: A joint team of investigators from the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) are learnt to have headed to Bangalore for further probe into the cash-for-bail scam involving mining baron and former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy. Though the bail scam is being investigated by the ACB, the anti-corruption watchdog is taking the help of the CBI as the latter had already carried out investigation into...

12:44 PM, Aug 16, 2012

The account was thought to have contributed to the strained relations Pietersen felt within the England dressing room. ...

11:45 PM, Aug 14, 2012

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday reserved its verdict on former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda's anticipatory bail plea. Kanda, who is the chief of the now-defunct MDLR Airlines, has been charged with abetting the suicide of his former employee Geetika Sharma. During the hearing, police told the court Kanda's custody is vital for the investigation. According to the police's lawyer Kanda's custody was needed to find the source...

05:20 PM, Aug 14, 2012

Hyderabad: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) is likely to seek a Prisoner Transit (PT) warrant to examine jailed mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy in the cash-for-bail case. He is currently lodged in a Karnataka jail in the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) case. The ACB on Monday filed a 40-page chargesheet in the cash-for-bail deal giving detailed account of the role played by each of the accused. Sources told Express that ACB...

12:10 PM, Aug 14, 2012

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court is set to hear former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda's anticipatory bail plea on Tuesday. Kanda who is the chief of the MDLR airlines, has been charged with abetting the suicide of his former employee Geetika Sharma. Geetika was found dead in her Delhi home on the August 5. Kanda has been absconding for the past eight days and the police say they are unable...

06:20 AM, Aug 14, 2012

New Delhi: Former Haryana Minister Gopal Kanda, accused of abetting the suicide of his ex-employee, Geetika Sharma, is likely to seek anticipatory bail from Delhi High Court on Monday. He is absconding for last six days after his earlier plea was rejected. Meanwhile, the custody of another accused MDLR group official Aruna Chadha has been extended to help recover certain crucial documents related to Geetika. Raids were conducted in several...

06:17 AM, Aug 13, 2012

New Delhi: Former Haryana Minister Gopal Kanda, accused of abetting the suicide of his ex-employee, Geetika Sharma, is likely to seek anticipatory bail from Delhi High Court on Monday. He is absconding after his earlier plea was rejected. Kanda remained elusive for the fourth day on Sunday despite several raids by police even as one of his relatives was questioned to help track him down. Raids were conducted in several...

11:31 PM, Aug 12, 2012

New Delhi: Co-accused in the Geetika Sharma suicide case, MDLR executive Aruna Chadha will be produced in court on Sunday. Twenty-three-year-old Geetika had left a suicide note in which she blamed Chadha and ex-Haryana minister Gopal Kanda for her extreme step. Geetika worked as an air-hostess with MDLR Airlines before it became defunct. She was then made the director of an MDLR subsididary company. However, she quit soon following which,...

08:26 AM, Aug 12, 2012