Mehrajuddin Dand, an alleged conspirator in the IC-814 hijack, was arrested on Thursday in Jammu and Kashmir. ...
02:36 PM, Sep 13, 2012
New Delhi: Mehrajuddin Dand alias Javed, the alleged conspirator of the IC-814 hijack, is a resident of Sopore. He allegedly provided logistical support for the IC-814 hijacking of 1999. Sources say Mehrajuddin was operating since 1993. He was living in Nepal with a Hindu name and was also married there. He worked for several years for the IC-814 hijack accused Arshad Cheema, who was a Pakistani diplomat based in Kathmandu....
11:27 AM, Sep 13, 2012
Kishtwar: In a major breakthrough, the Jammu and Kashmir Police has arrested a terror suspect, Mehrajuddin Dand alias Javed, who allegedly provided logistical support for the hijacking of IC-814 in 1999. He allegedly provided travel papers to IC-814 hijackers. NIA officials are expected to go to Jammu and Kashmir to question Mehrajuddin soon. The alleged terrorist, who is linked to various terror activities including blasts across the country, was arrested...
08:07 AM, Sep 13, 2012
One woman is raped every 29 minutes, two women every hour, every day of the year in India. ...
11:38 PM, Sep 08, 2012
New Delhi: One woman is raped every 29 minutes, two women every hour, every day of the year in India. The figures are just the rapes where women find courage to report, and become statistics at the National Crime Records Bureau. What's worse, the trauma of a victim only begins after she is raped. An insensitive society, police force and the judicial system violates her every time she steps out...
11:02 PM, Sep 08, 2012
Hyderabad: A local court on Friday granted bail to two accused in the cash-for-bail case involving former Karnataka Minister and mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy. Suspended CBI court judge Talluri Pattabhirama Rao's son T Ravi Chandra and lawyer T Aditya, facing charges of conspiring with others to secure bail for Reddy in Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) case, were given bail by Anti-Corruption court in Hyderabad. The court asked them to...
05:58 PM, Sep 07, 2012
Also find out why 'Heroine' actor Kareena Kapoor is flying high these days. ...
03:32 PM, Sep 07, 2012
London: Keira Knightley and Jude Law swept along a red carpet, complete with chandeliers, at the world premiere of their new movie 'Anna Karenina'. The London event Tuesday was slightly less theatrical than the film itself - an interpretation of Leo Tolstoy's epic love story, set in 19th century Russia. Knightley portrays the title role, the tragic heroine torn between reputation and romance. Law plays her jilted husband, while Aaron...
01:32 PM, Sep 05, 2012
New Delhi: India on Friday said it will take a decision on the visit of another Pakistan judicial commission here to cross examine witnesses related to the trial of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks after completion of internal consultations. "The Home Ministry is consulting judicial authorities in this and we will be in a position to reply once we get a response from the judicial authorities," External Affairs Ministry spokesman Syed...
09:03 PM, Aug 31, 2012
I was at a South Delhi cafe this evening where I happened to over hear a rather animated conversation between a group of youngsters glued ...
12:11 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Justice was delivered in the 26/11 terror attack case with the Supreme Court on Wednesday upholding the death sentence for Ajmal Amir Kasab, the only surviving Pakistani terrorist who attacked Mumbai in 2008. ...
12:01 AM, Aug 30, 2012
Hyderabad: Suspended judge K Lakshminarasimha Rao and others, who had mediated with the associates of former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy to secure his bail, is learnt to have initially demanded Rs 500 crore from the mining baron. But the deal did not shape up as the then CBI special court judge B Nagamaruthi Sarma refused to grant bail. This was revealed by a chartered accountant-cum-realtor P Krishna Prasad in...
12:08 PM, Aug 29, 2012
New Delhi: Prime accused in the Geetika Sharma suicide case, ex-Haryana minister Gopal Kanda was on Tuesday sent to 14-day judicial custody by a Delhi court. Kanda's police custody ended on Tuesday. Meanwhile, a nine-member Delhi Police team carried out raid at his Sirsa residence and farmhouse on Monday. Geetika Sharma, a former employee at Kanda's MDLR Airlines, committed suicide on August 5. In her suicide note, she blamed Kanda...
03:50 PM, Aug 28, 2012
Islamabad: With a showdown between the government and the judiciary looming, top leaders of Pakistan's ruling party have held meetings to prepare a strategy for the standoff and to decide whether the Premier should appear in court on Monday to face a contempt charge. The apex court's order asking Raja Pervez Ashraf to appear before a five-judge bench was discussed at a meeting of the Pakitan People's Party's top leadership...
05:47 PM, Aug 25, 2012
New Delhi: Asserting that the judges should not govern the country or evolve policies, Chief Justice of India SH Kapadia on Saturday wondered what would happen if the executive refuses to comply with judiciary's directives. He asked judges if they would invoke contempt proceedings against government officials for not complying with their decisions and disapproved a recent Supreme Court judgement which said "right to sleep" was also a fundamental right....
05:14 PM, Aug 25, 2012
Keira Knightley is back on the big screen, torn between two men in the classic love story, in 'Anna Karenina' with Jude Law. ...
03:16 PM, Aug 23, 2012
Mumbai: Affirming his government's commitment to working with judiciary for improving delivery of justice, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said the Law Commission is looking at improvements required in the court procedures for a better criminal judicial system. He also said an Inter Ministerial Group was examining what changes were needed in the Negotiable Instruments Act along with other measures to check increasing litigation arising out of cases of...
03:17 PM, Aug 18, 2012
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday is likely to hear a PIL filed by lawyer Subrata Mukherjee against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. This comes a day after the court took cognizance of a contempt complaint against Mamata for alleging that some court verdicts were bought. Mamata, however, remained defiant and said corruption in judiciary has to come down. The West Bengal Chief Minister had on August 14...
11:02 AM, Aug 17, 2012
New Delhi: Union Law minister Salman Khurshid on Thursday sought to downplay West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's controversial remarks about the judiciary, saying she should be given benefit of doubt as the comments may have been made in a particular context. "I can't comment on somebody filing a case. Anybody can file a case but I have already commented on the issue. I think the Chief Minister's anguish must...
11:18 PM, Aug 16, 2012
