Jind: A teenage girl allegedly committed suicide after she was scolded by her foster parents, who had objected to her talking to a friend over cellphone. The 16-year-old had consumed some poisonous substance on May 19, police said.
The girl was taken to a hospital in a serious condition where she died on Monday, police said.
A post-mortem was conducted and the case is being investigated, they added.
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09:59 PM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court has dismissed a plea of Zee Group Chairman Subhash Chandra for modifying a court's order directing him to take its prior permission before going abroad in a case of alleged Rs 100 crore extortion bid from MP Naveen Jindal's firm by the two editors of the news channel. Additional Sessions Judge Daya Prakash said this condition was imposed on Chandra for the purpose of facilitating...
08:10 PM, May 16, 2013
Washington: Gunmen fired shots during an informal Mother's Day afternoon parade in New Orleans in Louisiana state injuring 19 people, two of them children, according to police. The wounded in Sunday afternoon's shooting in the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana, governed by Indian-American Bobby Jindal, included 10 men and seven women as well as a boy and a girl, both 10. Local Nola.com cited police...
06:25 PM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: Controversial Punjabi film 'Sadda Haq' released in India on May 10, 2013, after been banned thrice. The entire team of the film including Kuljinder Singh Sidhu, Guarav Kakkar and Dinesh Sood addressed a press conference in Delhi to announce the news. Kuljinder Singh Sidhu informed, "We had to face a lot of challenges during the production of the film but due to the support and admiration of audience,...
05:42 PM, May 11, 2013
New Delhi: A court here has rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Zee News editor Sudhir Chaudhary in a fresh case registered against him by the Delhi Police for telecasting a show allegedly on the basis of forged documents against Jindal Group in connection with Coalgate. Additional Sessions Judge Daya Prakash brushed aside Chaudhary's contention that the fresh FIR has been filed against him due to "a grudge as he...
08:59 PM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: JSW Steel has put on hold plans to set up a 10 million tonnes steel plant in West Bengal as it has not been able to secure long-term iron ore supplies for the Rs 35,000 crore project. "It is stalled right now, it's on hold. Unless we are going to fix the iron ore matter, unless we have the visibility of iron ore, we can not move ahead....
01:55 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Chandigarh: Savitri Jindal, said to be India's richest woman, was on Friday asked by the Punjab and Haryana High Court to vacate within 15 days her government accommodation, which she had been occupying unauthorisedly. The court said that if Jindal failed to vacate the government bungalow within the stipulated time, the estate officer here would complete eviction proceedings within six weeks. Jindal, a legislator of the ruling Congress in Haryana...
02:50 AM, Apr 27, 2013
New Delhi: Hit hard by rising interest burden and lower sales realisations, Jindal Steel and Power's (JSPL) consolidated net profit fell by nearly 35 per cent to Rs 760.27 crore for the quarter ended March 31, 2013. The company, headed by Naveen Jindal, had reported a net profit of Rs 1,167 crore in same quarter of FY'12. Net sales during the fourth quarter of 2012-13 reported a meagre growth of...
12:30 PM, Apr 26, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi Police Commissioner, Neeraj Kumar, is unlikely to be removed from his post, sources said on Monday even as protests intensified in the national capital over the brutal rape of a five-year-old girl who is currently recovering at AIIMS hospital. Sources said that the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Tejinder Khanna had met the Police Commissioner to assess the situation and was briefed upon it. The demand for...
01:25 PM, Apr 22, 2013
Jalandhar: Amid speculations of BJP MP Navjot Singh Sidhu leaving the party and not fighting the coming general elections, senior Congress leader Rajinder Kaur Bhattal has said that Sidhu is a good and honest leader but is in the "wrong party". "I have been saying this about Sidhu before as well that he is is a good person but in a wrong party. If he has realised that now then...
10:10 PM, Apr 13, 2013
New Delhi: Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to Congress MP and industrialist Naveen Jindal and the Centre on a PIL seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry into demolition of a 400-year-old mosque. The mosque was laid in the mining lease area of the Jindal company in Bhilwara district of Rajasthan. The apex court demanded why there should not be a CBI inquiry into the demolition. Jindal has...
11:03 AM, Apr 09, 2013
New Orleans: Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, one of the nation's most prominent Republicans and a possible 2016 presidential candidate, has fallen out of favor with local voters, and his bold plan to scrap the state income tax is running into trouble. Jindal was re-elected to a second term with two-thirds of the vote in 2011. But his Louisiana approval rating was down to 38 per cent in a recent poll,...
11:32 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Jind: Former Army chief General VK Singh has said the country needed a system where the government was run like a military unit, for which the nation is above any caste or religion. "Poverty and corruption are rampant in the country and no effective steps had been taken to eradicate them.. the country needs a system where the government was run like an Army unit for which the nation is...
03:40 PM, Apr 06, 2013
Chandigarh: 'Sadda Haq (Our right), a Punjabi film based on real life events during the Khalistan movement, was tonight banned by the Punjab Government on the eve of its release across theatres in the state tomorrow. According to an official spokesman here, the step to ban the film till further orders has been taken to "maintain communal harmony" in the state. The film, according to actor-producer Kuljinder Sidhu, is based...
11:24 AM, Apr 05, 2013
Jindal Power Ltd (JPL) was on Monday issued summons by the district court in Raigarh for alleged violation of environmental norms in connection with its coal washery at Libara and Dhaurabhatha villages in Chhattisgarh. Chief Judicial Magistrate Raigarh GK Neelam issued the summons to JPL, its Executive Vice President Ram Niwas and Assistant Vice President Sameer Chatterjee, seeking their presence in the court on April 25, 2013. ...
01:42 AM, Apr 02, 2013
In an ideal world, the poor rarely ever get justice. In cinema however, the underdog crusader usually finds redemption. ...
02:59 PM, Mar 18, 2013
India's offer of an extra 5 million tonnes of wheat for export direct to private traders is at too high a price, traders said, undermining its own efforts to avoid rotting stocks and make room for the new harvest. ...
04:38 AM, Mar 08, 2013
The government has initiated action against seven senior officers for dereliction of duty in connection with the December 16, 2012, gangrape incident. Departmental proceedings have been initiated against a Special CP, a Joint CP, a DCP and an Additional DCP, all IPS cadre, and two DANIPS officers dealing with PCR Control Room and Traffic, official sources said. ...
08:52 PM, Mar 04, 2013
In another instance of bizarre khap justice, the Jind panchayat has struck a compromise in a woman's murder case and has directed the families of the accused to offer penance by kneeling and paying obeisance to the victim at the spot where she was killed. The woman died in a gunfire in October 2012. ...
07:45 AM, Mar 03, 2013
Both the ruling CPM led Left Front as well as the Congress-led opposition alliance were optimistic of forming the next government in Tripura as election officials prepared for counting of votes on Thursday. ...
05:56 AM, Feb 28, 2013
