
BANGALORE: After Palikes notices to traders at Russell Market did not bear fruits, the civic body has resorted to new methods to evacuate traders from the market. The BBMP has now denied water supply to the market and has locked the toilets on the premises. Recently, the traders had pooled in funds and had arranged for generator facility, which, however, is not serving the purpose. Around 120 mutton, 40 fish...

08:58 AM, May 11, 2012

New Delhi: A metropolitan court in Ahmedabad on Monday handed over the final copy of the SIT report on the Gulbarg massacre to Zakia Jafri, a month after the Supreme Court-appointed SIT gave Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi a clean chit in the case. The report had sought a closure in the probe as it found no evidence against Narendra Modi. Jafri, the widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri...

10:19 AM, May 10, 2012

BANGALORE: As per a recommendation, at least 40 per cent of BEd colleges under Bangalore University (BU) have to be closed due to inadequate independent buildings, classrooms, libraries and computer centres. The recommendation is based on a survey conducted between December 2011 and February 2012 by Karan Kumar H, a member of the varsitys Academic Council.Apart from infrastructure flaws, the survey recorded gross non-adherence to rules concerning the way academic...

09:25 AM, Apr 10, 2012

Nagpur: A Nagpur court on Wednesday rejected the CID closure report in Yogita Thakre case and directed the agency to carry out further investigation into the death mystry of the 7-year-old girl. Her family alleges that she was murdered and did not die accidentally as the CID probe concluded, and Wednesday's verdict gave them a new hope. On May 19, 2009, Yogita was found dead in the boot of a...

02:02 PM, Dec 21, 2011

HYDERABAD: As many as 439 MCA and MBA colleges in the state are on the verge of closure. They have sought permission from the government to transfer the few students who took admission to nearby colleges as most of their seats remained unfilled, after the second phase of counselling which ended on October 27. At the end of the second phase, 439 colleges (362 MCA and 77 MBA) got below...

08:54 AM, Nov 03, 2011

New Delhi: Delhi Police is understood to have concluded that the controversial CD purportedly having lawyer Shanti Bhushan's conversations with political leaders Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh is genuine and not fake as alleged. Sources said investigators are filing a closure report soon following probe into a complaint filed by Bhushan that the CD was fabricated. A case under section 469 of Indian Penal Code (forgery for the purpose...

01:01 PM, Aug 30, 2011

Thiruvananthapuram: Former Chief Justic of India KG Balakrishnan does a U-turn on disclosing his assets. Justic Balakrishnan has informed the Inecome Tax Department that he does not want to disclose his assets because it is not related to public welfare in any way. Under intense pressure, former CJI and the current NHRC chief had early this month agreed to publicise details of his assets. The ex-CJI has faced allegations that...

01:41 PM, Apr 18, 2011

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Thursday reserved its order for February 21 on the CBI's plea seeking withdrawal of case against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi in the over two-decade-old Bofors payoff scam. "This court has heard the argument. There is no point in holding back the order for the information of the Central Information Commission (CIC). Put the matter for pronouncement of order on February 21," Chief Metropolitan Magistrate...

03:46 PM, Feb 10, 2011

Ghaziabad: A special CBI court in Ghaziabad will pronounce its order on the CBI closure report in the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case on Wednesday. The court can accept the closure report, reject it and order a re-investigation or take cognizance and order a trail in the case. The CBI's closure report which was filed in December mentions Aarushi's father Dr Rajesh Talwar as the sole suspect saying that all circumstantial...

07:14 AM, Feb 09, 2011

New Delhi: The Special CBI court on Tuesday reserved its decision on CBI closure report in Aarushi-Hemraj murder case for Wednesday. The CBI stood by its closure report in the court stating that it done a fair investigation and submitted to the court whatever evidence it found. The agency maintained that the servants were not involved and there was nobody else in the house apart from the parents. The CBI...

02:15 PM, Feb 08, 2011

New Delhi: A special CBI court in Ghaziabad will hear a petition on Tuesday filed by Aarushi Talwar's parents against the CBI's closure report in the double murder case. The CBI is expected to stand by its closure report in the case and is likely to challenge the petition filed by Aarushi's father Rajesh Talwar, official sources said. They, however, said the Court can take cognisance of the closure report...

07:43 AM, Feb 08, 2011

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought a response from the Attorney General on a petition seeking complete disclosure of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia's telephonic conversations with various public figures. A bench comprising justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly asked the Attorney General G E Vahanvati to file his response within two weeks and posted the matter for hearing on March 8. The tapes reportedly include her...

06:53 PM, Feb 02, 2011

Ghaziabad: There’s some reprieve for the Talwar family as a special CBI court has said that Rajesh Talwar cannot be called an accused till a charge sheet is filed in the case The request made by the CBI counsel that Talwars shouldn’t be given a copy of the closure report has been turned down by the court. The court refused to buy CBI’s argument that Rajesh Talwar is an accused...

09:20 PM, Jan 07, 2011

New Delhi: A Ghaziabad special court overruled the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) objections, allowing the parents of murdered teenager Aarushi Talwar, access to the CBI closure report. "We will get a copy of the report. Our lawyers will go through it and decide the next course of action," said Aarushi's uncle Dinesh Talwar. Major setback for the CBI in the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case as the Ghaziabad court told...

11:57 AM, Jan 07, 2011

New Delhi: A special court in Ghaziabad is set to deliver its verdict on the Central Bureau of Investigation's December 29 closure report on the Aarushi murder case. The CBI has told the court that Aarushi's parents are the accused in the double murder case and should not be given a copy of the closure report. The CBI had filed the closure report as it had been unable to establish...

11:04 AM, Jan 07, 2011