
A team of doctors has reached ND Tiwari's Dehradun residence to take his blood sample on the Supreme Court's orders. ...

10:45 AM, May 29, 2012

Beijing: A Chinese woman has been detained at the commodity hub of Yiwu for kidnapping an Indian trader last week over a debt dispute, after the latter was rescued and sent back home. The woman surnamed Wang and her boyfriend had illegally detained Muhammad Danish Qureshi at Wang's home since last Monday, state-run news agency Xinhua reported quoting local police as saying. Police freed Qureshi, a "purchaser working for an...

11:37 AM, May 26, 2012

New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Wednesday hear Congress leader ND Tiwari's plea against being forced to give his blood sample to determine a paternity lawsuit. Tiwari has challenged a Delhi High court order that instructs the registrar to allow the use of police help to obtaining his blood sample in the paternity suit filed by Rohit Shekhar. The 86-year-old leader has been embroiled in the paternity case for...

06:57 AM, May 23, 2012

Mumbai: In case the Ulhasnagar municipal workers were missing, or had missed out on, standing outside classrooms in punishment for reaching school late, on Monday provided them a refreshing adult version of the old lesson in punctuality. Around 10:35 am on Monday, over 150 staffers at the headquarters of the Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation flushed red in the face as they endured standing in the summer swelter for close to an...

10:25 PM, May 22, 2012

New Delhi: Congress leader ND Tiwari has been directed by the Delhi High Court to give blood sample on May 26 for the DNA test in connection with a paternity case. The veteran Congress leader has been forced to give a sample to settle a paternity suit. The 86-year-old leader has been embroiled in the paternity case for over four years, and the court had earlier ordered that police may...

12:37 PM, May 21, 2012

It is an achievement of sorts for a Telugu film maker. GV Sudhakar Naidu of Hero and Ranga - The Donga fame has wowed Nana Patekar and Anil Kapoor with his story. Kumar Yadav and Salman Khan would be producing this movie, which will also see Hema Malini and Rekha in important lead cast. "I prepared a story on the basis of a real-life incident that happened in the border...

10:22 AM, May 20, 2012

New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday washed its hands of the controversy surrounding veteran leader ND Tiwari, who has been ordered by a Delhi court to give blood sample for DNA test in a paternity suit and restrained from leaving India until the test. "This is his personal matter and we will not be able to offer any comment on behalf of the party in this regard. He is a...

10:19 PM, May 16, 2012

New Delhi: Many people have asked us why reinvestigate a kidnapping from 1995 when there are many more recent incidents, horrific and baffling, that remain unsolved? There are several reasons. For me, (and for Benazir Bhutto with whom we discussed the Kashmir kidnapping many times as it had struck such a chord with her as Prime Minister) it was a watershed, a point at which the West witnessed for the...

02:50 PM, May 15, 2012

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday restrained veteran Congress leader ND Tiwari from leaving India until he furnishes his blood sample for a DNA test. Justice Reva Khetrapal, hearing the plea of a man who claims to be the biological son, granted two days time to Tiwari to inform the court whether he wants to give blood sample willingly or not. The high court on April 27 had...

12:30 PM, May 14, 2012

Mumbai: The Crime Branch is likely to take DNA samples from Karan Kakkars murder accused Vijay Palande and Simran Sood, and match it against the DNA received from supermodel Viveka Babajees nails. In a parallel incident, cops also salvaged half of Kakkars corpse from the Kumbharali Ghat in Ratnagiri. This will now be matched against DNA obtained from bloodstains found in Karan Kakkars bathroom. Palande in his statement had admitted...

02:27 PM, May 01, 2012

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejects the plea of veteran Congress leader N D Tiwari against a High Court order in connection with a paternity suit filed against by Rohit Shekhar. The apex court ordered that the former Andhra Pradesh governor would have to give his blood sample for a DNA test. Tiwari had pleaded that he should not be forced to give his blood sample as the...

01:04 PM, May 01, 2012

New Delhi: Hearing the paternity suit against senior Congress leader ND Tiwari, the Delhi High Court on Friday asked him to give his blood sample so that the DNA test could be carried out. The High Court also said that police assistance could be taken to get the blood sample if Tiwari does not cooperate. "Take police assistance if ND Tiwari contines to evade court directive," said the High Court....

11:43 AM, Apr 27, 2012

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday is expected to deliver a decision on the ND Tiwari paternity row. Rohit Shekhar, who claims to be the senior Congress leader's biological son had challenged the high court's order. The court had earlier noted that Tiwari cannot be forced to give his blood samples for a DNA test. The court had on February 28 reserved its order on Shekhar's plea which...

07:12 AM, Apr 27, 2012

Jhargram: Class XI students of a school in West Midnapore district who had failed in the annual examination, on Thursday locked up the all the 50-odd staff and secretary after their meeting failed to yield any result. The students of the Nayabasan Janakalyan Vidyapeeth at Gopiballabhpur said they would not open the gate till they all were promoted to class XII, said Ashok Pattanaik, secretary of the school's managing committee....

01:51 PM, Apr 26, 2012