New Delhi: Karnataka MLA Somashekhara Reddy, brother of mining scam accused Gali Janardhan Reddy, has been arrested in the cash-for-bail scam on Monday. Somashekhara Reddy is the second Karnataka MLA to be arrested in the cash-for-bail scam after Suresh Babu, who was arrested last week. Somashekhar Reddy, who is accused of "playing a key role in bribing" suspended judge T Pattabhirama Rao in granting bail to mining baron Janardhan Reddy,...
05:23 PM, Aug 06, 2012
Lahore: A Pakistani judge resigned on Thursday after a video showing him dancing with a girl at a party was uploaded on YouTube. The resignation of civil judge Muhammad Masood Bilal of Khanewal district in Punjab province had been accepted, said Lahore High Court Registrar Sohail Nasir. The High Court had initiated departmental proceedings against Bilal even before he resigned, Nasir told reporters. Bilal attended a party to celebrate the...
09:47 PM, Aug 02, 2012
New Delhi: India may allow cross examination of witnesses by a Pakistani judicial commission set up for the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. Home Secretary RK Singh said New Delhi may consider such a request from Islamabad as it wanted conviction of those who were involved in 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai and are now in Pakistan. "We had requested our High Commissioner in Pakistan to approach the government there and...
07:21 PM, Aug 01, 2012
Islamabad: The Pakistan government has formally informed India that evidence provided by New Delhi in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks case is not admissible in a Pakistani court as defence lawyers were not allowed to cross-examine Indian officials, a media report said on Wednesday. Pakistan's Interior Ministry has informed the Indian government that the evidence is not admissible in the trial of seven Pakistani suspects, including Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zakiur Rehman...
12:33 PM, Aug 01, 2012
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh ACB, probing the cash-for-bail scam involving jailed former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, on Tuesday named his close associate and yet another MLA of that state B Sreeramulu, of playing a role towards securing Reddy's bail. In its remand report submitted in a court in Hyderabad after arresting BJP's Kampli MLA TH Suresh Babu in the case, the ACB has claimed that further investigations had revealed that...
05:01 AM, Aug 01, 2012
London: Urska Zolnir of Slovenia won the women's 63K Olympic judo gold medal on Tuesday. Zolnir defeated Xu Lili of China in a combative final where both fighters were almost constantly on the offensive. She managed to throw Xu once in the match's first minute, which was ultimately enough to win. Zolnir, 31, was one of the oldest competitors in the division. She won a bronze at the Athens Games...
12:49 AM, Aug 01, 2012
London: Kim Jae-bum of South Korea won the Olympic gold medal on Tuesday in the men's 81-kilogram category. Kim defeated Ole Bischof of Germany in the final. Kim threw Bischof twice and was often on the attack, even when both were locked in grappling techniques on the floor. The 27-year-old Kim won a silver at the Beijing Games and is the current world champion. The bronze medals were won by...
12:14 AM, Aug 01, 2012
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Anti-Corruption Bureau, probing the cash-for-bail scam involving jailed former Karnataka minister G Janardhan Reddy, on Tuesday named his close associate and yet another MLA of that state B Sreeramulu, for allegedly playing a role towards securing Reddy's bail. In its remand report submitted in a court in Hyderabad after arresting BJP's Kampli MLA TH Suresh Babu in the case, the ACB has claimed further investigations had shown...
11:21 PM, Jul 31, 2012
New Delhi: The industry chambers on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that the 2G spectrum judgement making it mandatory to allocate all natural resources only through auction has caused a lot of uncertainty. The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce (FICCI) and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) contended that the February 2 verdict was specific to the spectrum allocation and its conclusion that the first-come-first-served (FCFS) policy was illegal per...
07:07 PM, Jul 31, 2012
London: India's medal hopes in Judo came crashing down, when judoka Garima Choudhary was knocked out of the women's 63 kg category elimination round. Facing Japan's Yoshie Ueno, she was beaten in only 1.21 minutes. Japan continued their good run when Kaori Matsumoto won a gold medal in Judo on Monday in the 57-kg category along with two silver medals and one bronze in Judo. (More to follow) ...
03:53 PM, Jul 31, 2012
Lahore: Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed has called on the Pakistan government to hold "serious talks" with India over the issue of sharing of river waters. He made the remarks while addressing a meeting of JuD activists in the border city of Sialkot, 70 km from Lahore, on Monday. "Islamabad should hold a serious dialogue with New Delhi on this crucial issue, which will damage the agriculture-based economy of Pakistan,"...
07:35 AM, Jul 31, 2012
London: An Kae Um won North Korea's first Olympic gold medal at London Games on Sunday in the women's judo 52-kilogram category. The 20-year-old An defeated Acosta Bermoy of Cuba in the final in a match that went into overtime. An won in the final minutes with a decisive throw that landed Bermoy on her back. An won silver at the Beijing Games four years ago. Earlier in the day,...
10:49 PM, Jul 29, 2012
London: Lasha Shavdatuashvili of Georgia won an Olympic judo gold medal on Sunday in the men's 66-kilogram category. The 20-year-old Shavdatuashvili defeated Miklos Ungvari of Hungary in a tense final. Shavdatuashvili managed to score with a throw after sweeping his opponent's foot in the first few minutes of the match. It is Shavdatuashvili's first Olympic medal. Shavdatuashvili defeated one of the favorites, Masashi Ebinuma of Japan, in the semifinals with...
10:17 PM, Jul 29, 2012
London: In the men's 60-kilogram division, Russian Arsen Galstyan surprised spectators and opponents alike when he took the gold. Galstyan defeated the category's two favorites to win the medal: top-ranked Uzbeki fighter Rishod Sobirov in the semi-final, and Japanese judoka Hiroaki Hiroaka in the final. It took less than a minute for Galstyan, 23, to score a match-ending ippon over Hiroaka. It was the first Olympic medal for the Russian,...
09:59 PM, Jul 28, 2012
London: Sarah Menezes of Brazil won the women's 48-kilogram Olympic judo gold medal on Saturday. The second-ranked Menezes beat defending Olympic champion Alina Dumitru of Romania in a final that had both fighters on the defensive. Menezes frequently had her hands up like a boxer as both struggled to get a dominant grip, without much success until the last minute of the match. After failing to throw Dumitru off balance...
09:35 PM, Jul 28, 2012
New Delhi: Haryana government on Wednesday ordered a judicial inquiry into the violence in Rewari over land acquisition and decided to constitute two separate committees to deliberate on land acquisition in the area, which has been stayed till further orders. The judicial probe will be headed by a retired judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. The decisions were taken at a high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister Bhupinder...
03:13 AM, Jul 26, 2012
Bangalore: Even as the Supreme Court's order to ban tourism in core areas of tiger reserves is being hailed by wildlife conservationists, disconcerting news trickles down from Madumalai and Bandipur tiger reserves that hard-core poachers are still at large in the forests of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Close on the heels of ten notorious poachers being arrested from the BR Temple tiger reserve, a poacher was arrested deep inside the...
04:07 PM, Jul 25, 2012
Hyderabad: Alleging that ACB deputy superintendent of police Srikrishnudu had manhandled him in the name of investigation into the Gali Janardhan Reddys bail scam, suspended judge K Lakshmi Narasimha Rao has written to the chief justices of the Supreme Court and the AP High Court, and chairman of the AP State Human Rights Commission (APSHRC) among others seeking justice. He alleged that minister for law and courts Erasu Pratap Reddy...
10:56 AM, Jul 24, 2012
