New Delhi: The Income Tax department has been trying to establish links between liquor baron Ponty Chadha and Uttar Pradesh's Orai-based mining mafia head Sukhdev Singh. Recently, Rs 1.5 crore were recovered from Sukhdev's office in raids conducted by the IT department. The I-T department also raided liquor baron Ponty Chadha's premises across Delhi and UP. Jewellery worth Rs 4 crore and Rs 50 lakh cash was seized. I-T officials...
07:52 AM, Feb 04, 2012
New Delhi: A Mumbai court on Monday extended the judicial custody of the accused in journalist Jyotirmoy Deys murder case till February 14. Journalist Jigna Vora was among those who appeared in the court on Monday. J Dey, a senior crime journalist with MiD Day, was shot dead on June 11 last year near his residence in Powai, central Mumbai by motorcycle-borne assailants. Vora stands accused of providing information about...
07:15 PM, Jan 30, 2012
Kingston: Three members of an Afghan Canadian family were found guilty of the 'honor killing' of three siblings and a fourth relative on Sunday after a high-profile trial that has fascinated Canadians. A jury in Kingston, Ontario, found the three -- husband and wife Mohammad Shafia and Tooba Mohammad Yahya, and their eldest son Hamed Mohammad Shafia -- guilty of four counts of first-degree murder. Their victims were three of...
11:12 AM, Jan 30, 2012
Srinagar: A radical Kashmiri women's group on Friday held an anti-US protest against the imprisonment and alleged sexual assault on Pakistani scientist Aafia Siddiqui, who is serving a prison term in an American jail. Dukhtaran-e-Millat members led by its leader Aasiya Andrabi raised anti-US slogans and burned an American flag to protest against the alleged sexual abuse of the Pakistani born scientist, who is serving 86 years prison-term in the...
07:03 PM, Jan 27, 2012
Islamabad: A three-member Pakistani judicial commission will visit India February 3-6 to record statements of witnesses and Indian investigators probing the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, the interior ministry said on Friday. The commission members are the head of the Special Investigation Group of the Federal Investigation Agency, Khalid Qureshi, and prosecutors Muhammad Azhar Chaudhry and Chaudhry Zulfiqar, Xinhua reported. Interior Minister Rehman Malik has thanked Indian High Commissioner Sharat Sabarwal...
03:29 AM, Jan 21, 2012
New Delhi: Auto makers Fiat and Suzuki Motor Corporation today said they have reached an agreement to supply Fiat diesel engines to India's largest car company Maruti Suzuki. "Fiat India Automobiles Ltd (FIAL) will supply up to one lakh 1.3 litre MultiJet 75hp SDE engines per year to Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MSIL) starting from January 2012 for a period of three years," a joint statement said. The engine will...
12:08 PM, Jan 19, 2012
New Delhi: Karun Chandhok will race in this year's FIA World Endurance Championship while continuing to try and secure a reserve role in Formula One, the Indian driver said on Thursday. Chandhok said the sportscar series would give him the chance to compete regularly while he explores test driving possibilities with a couple of Formula One teams including Caterham, the former Team Lotus who hired him last year. "At the...
07:58 PM, Jan 12, 2012
Mumbai: Mumbai police's crime branch on Tuesday filed the reply opposing the bail applications of two accused in the journalist Jyotirmoy Dey murder case. "We filed the reply saying that we are opposing the bail," said special public prosecutor, Dileep Shah. The applications, filed by Anil Waghmode and Deepak Sisodia, would come up for hearing at the special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court after two weeks. Jigna...
06:59 PM, Jan 10, 2012
New Delhi: Formula One (F1) World Champion Sebastian Vettel along with Red Bull teammate Mark Webber and McLaren's Jenson Button are all set to visit the national captial again. This time for the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) Awards Gala on Friday. The awards night will be preceded by the motorsports body's Annual General Assembly (AGA). Vettel, who was bowled over by Indian hospitality during his triumph in the inaugural...
11:23 PM, Dec 04, 2011
Islamabad: Former FIA chief Tariq Khosa, who had led the investigation of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, has turned down the Supreme Court's offer to head a commission to probe a secret memo sent to the US military purportedly by the Pakistani civilian leadership fearing an army coup. In an order issued on December 1, the apex court had asked Khosa to head a commission that will conduct a three-week investigation...
03:05 PM, Dec 04, 2011
Islamabad: Former Federal Investigation Agency chief Tariq Khosa, who had led Pakistan's investigation of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, on Saturday refused to head a commission set up by the Supreme Court to probe the secret memorandum sent to the US military in May. In an order issued on December 1, the apex court had asked Khosa to head a commission that will conduct a three-week-long investigation into the memo that...
09:51 PM, Dec 03, 2011
CJ Bhavani gets back her land allegedly grabbed by the mafia in Chennai after she turned CJ in September 2011 ...
07:37 PM, Dec 03, 2011
First the F1 GP and now it's time for the general assembly and awards of Federation Internaionale del Automobile (FIA) to be held in India. The event starts on 5th December and concludes on 9th December 2011. Taj Hotel, New Delhi will be witness to the crowning of champions from Formula 1 to those of other FIA-certified events such as World Touring Car, World Rally Championship, World Karting, Asia Pacific...
02:03 PM, Dec 02, 2011
HYDERABAD: The sale of liquor at a premium is an open secret in the state. Notwithstanding the order of Excise Department, the liquor shop owners continue to sell liquor at more than the maximum retail price printed on bottles. They also run belt shops to make profits ignoring the warnings of the excise officials. The liquor syndicate's arrogance can be somewhat attributed to the fact that a majority of politicians,...
11:42 AM, Nov 28, 2011
Ranchi: Seven days have passed since Sister Valsa Jhon, a Nun from Kerala who was part of a group campaigning against the coal mafia, was gunned down by a group of unidentified men in Pakur, Jharkhand. Though the police on Monday arrested seven suspects, but they are still not sure if it's the mafia or local villagers who are behind the murder. "The villagers were unhappy that she was about...
09:06 PM, Nov 21, 2011
Pakur: Police on Sunday claimed involvement of Maoists in the killing of Sister Valsha John and arrested seven persons in connection with the incident. "In all, there were 45 people, who had surrounded her house with 30 of them being Maoists," Inspector General of Police (Santhal Pargana) Arun Kumar Oraon told a press conference in Pakur. The 30 Maoists, including the banned outfit's self-styled area commander Ramesh Soren, belonged to...
08:36 PM, Nov 20, 2011
New Delhi: The Jharkhand police on Sunday arrested two people in connection with the murder of nun-cum-activist Valsa John in Pakur district. The police on Saturday detained three more people. In total, nine people have been detained by the police in connection with the nun's murder. The needle of suspicion in the murder points at the coal mafia after her family claimed she received death threats. They said Valsa had...
01:04 PM, Nov 20, 2011
New Delhi: A Kerala nun working among tribals in Jharkhand was hacked to death late on Tuesday night. The victim, sister Valsa had told her family in Kochi that she faced death threats from mining mafia. Naxal pamphlets were found at the crime scene. However, police suspect this was done to confuse investigators. 52-year-old Valsa hailing from Vazhakala RPT Vazhakala at Kakkanad in Ernakulam District had told the family during...
07:16 AM, Nov 17, 2011
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a chargesheet in the Malegaon Additional Collector Yashwant Sonawane murder case. In its chargesheet the CBI alleges that investigations show there was prior enmity between Popat Sinde and Yashwant Sonawne. The CBI chargesheet also mentions that the Anti Corruption Bureau, Nashik, was investigating a complaint against Sonwane filed by Shinde. Shinde alleged that Sonawane had sought a bribe of Rs one...
03:21 PM, Oct 11, 2011
