
Lucknow: The CBI on Tuesday filed its chargesheet in connection with the murder of two Chief Medical Officers of Lucknow accusing two shooters and the person who hired them of murder and criminal conspiracy. In its charge sheet filed before the special judicial magistrate, the agency has alleged that shooters Anand Prakash Tiwari and Vinod Sharma had murdered the then CMOs Dr VK Arya and BP Singh. The agency has...

04:46 PM, May 29, 2012

Lucknow: The Central Bureau Of Investigation (CBI) is likely to file a chargesheet in connection with the murders of former Chief Medical Officers VK Arya and BP Singh on Tuesday accusing two shooters and the person who hired them of murder and criminal conspiracy. The investigative agency in its first chargesheet in the sensational murders of two CMOs is also likely to name a former Health officer in the criminal...

10:39 AM, May 29, 2012

Thiruvananthapuram: Noted innovator, tech evangelist and policymaker Sam Pitroda has drawn up some 10 major projects for Kerala's resurgence that promise to change the face of the state, says Chief Minister Oommen Chandy. "We are confident that given Pitroda's acumen in projects that he will present, this is certainly going to change the face of the state in the near future," Chandy, currently in Mumbai to promote investments to the...

01:07 PM, May 15, 2012

As Jagathy Sreekumar's aching body has started responding to medicines, the doctors at the CMC Vellore are waiting for the actor's brain to respond. Currently in a semi-conscious state, the actor is finding it difficult to identify his relatives around him. The doctors expect that the treatment schedules may take a longer term than what they initially anticipated. Jagathy's right side was largely paralysed after the head injury following the...

06:52 PM, May 13, 2012

Lucknow: A packet containing a white substance suspected to be sulphas was recovered from the possession of former Chief Medical Officer of Lucknow AK Shukla during frisking in the jail. Shukla, who was arrested by the CBI in connection with the murder case of another CMO VK Arya on Sunday night, was remanded in 14-days judicial custody by a court on Monday. After being handed over by the police, a...

12:03 PM, May 08, 2012

MAHABALIPURAM: Pattali Makkal Katchi leaders painted Anbumani Ramadoss, son of the party founder S Ramadoss, as the Chief Ministerial candidate for the next State Assembly election due in 2016, during the Chithirai Full Moon Vanniyar Youth Festival, here on Saturday night.Almost all functionaries, including GK Mani, AK Moorthy and R Velu during their invocations anointed Anbumani as the CM candidate and called for the support of the entire community to...

08:56 AM, May 07, 2012

Lucknow: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday arrested former Lucknow Chief Medical Officer (CMO) AK Shukla for allegedly conspiring to kill two other Lucknow CMOs in jail. Shukla worked in the UP Family Welfare Department and was arrested for financial irregularities in the Health Department in 2011. Shukla was arrested earlier in connection with a corruption case but was later released on bail. The twin CMO murders In...

08:10 AM, May 07, 2012

The Home Minister strongly defended NCTC, which he said would be an important pillar of the country's security infrastructure. ...

07:08 PM, May 05, 2012

New Delhi: Home Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday strongly defended his pet project, the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), which he said would be an important pillar of the country's security infrastructure. In a bid to dispel fears of some chief ministers that the proposed anti-terror intelligence hub would infringe on their policing domain, the Home Minister stressed that countering terrorism "is a shared responsibility" of central and state governments....

05:59 PM, May 05, 2012

New Delhi: The World Wrestling Entertainment Extreme Rules event was held at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois in US on Sunday. It was the fourth event under the Extreme Rules chronology. In the main event, John Cena defeated Brock Lesnar in the Extreme Rules match. The match lasted almost 18 minutes. Earlier, in the pre-show match, Santino Marella defeated The Miz, winning the Singles match for the WWE United...

12:09 PM, Apr 30, 2012

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Come Wednesday and Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will lay the foundation stone for the Kariavattom outdoor stadium, the proposed venue for the opening/closing ceremony of the 35th National Games. The Chief Minister will lay the foundation stone at 4.30 pm on the day at Kariavattom. Sports Minister K B Ganesh Kumar and officials concerned will attend the function. The event will be a major milestone in the preparations for...

12:27 PM, Apr 23, 2012

New Delhi: For the last few months, reservation for minority communities, particularly Muslims, is a subject of fierce political debate in India. The approval of 4.5 percent sub-quota in government jobs and educational institutions for minorities was presumably to improve their economic and educational backwardness. However, as the data on the enrolment of Muslims in elementary schools shows, reservation in jobs and in higher educational institutions cannot be the only...

02:54 PM, Apr 17, 2012

New Delhi: Karnataka Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda on Monday opposed the creation of a National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), claiming that it encroaches upon the federal nature of India and erodes the powers of the states. "We must not forget that the police and law and order are the state subjects under our constitution. Any direct entry into those areas by the union government through such devices as...

03:12 PM, Apr 16, 2012

New Delhi: Strengthening of counter terror capabilities and intelligence apparatus, Maoist violence, police reforms and capacity building will be high on agenda at the Chief Ministers conference on internal security to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday. The day-long conference will also deliberate on how India is being affected due to its troubled neighbourhood and its obvious consequences in the country like cross border terrorism, covert support...

01:21 AM, Apr 16, 2012