New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Thursday hear appeals filed by Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone in response to notices sent to them regarding discontinuation of their 3G services in unlicensed cities. On April 8, the Apex Court had directed the telecom department to not take any 'coercive action' against the country's largest mobile phone company Bharti Airtel till Thursday, April 11. Last week, a panel of judges...
08:35 AM, Apr 11, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has upheld the life sentence awarded to four persons for burning two men to death during 1984 anti-Sikh riots. A bench of justices P Sathasivam and MY Eqbal turned down the plea of the convicts that they could not be held guilty of murder as the body was not recovered by the Delhi Police and there was delay in lodging FIR in the case. "It...
04:39 PM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said she will fly back to Kolkata on Wednesday itself and has cancelled all her meetings in Delhi. She said she was advised by doctors to get hospitalised but she did not want to be hospitalised. "I was given oxygen whole night on Tuesday, the doctor advised me to get hospitalised, but I don't like to get hospitalised," Mamata said. Mamata...
01:51 PM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: A 12-year-old mentally challenged minor girl has been allegedly raped by a 19-year-old-boy in Timarpur, Delhi. The rape accused is a neighbour of the girl and he committed the crime on Tuesday night. The police have registered a case and are investigating the matter. Meanwhile, in another incident three children were injured when the roof of their house collapsed in Burari area of North Delhi. They have been...
12:05 PM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: A builder who failed to start a Greater Noida residential project on time has landed in trouble as a consumer court in Delhi has directed him to pay compensation of Rs.3 lakh and refund the over Rs.49 lakh cost of a flat to a complainant. Delhi Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission member Salma Noor and Member(Judicial) VK Gupta held RS Builtwell and its director guilty of deficiency in service...
04:48 AM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Tuesday registered a case against unknown persons for manhandling West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra outside the Planning Commission office here. While no arrest has been made yet in the incident, Police registered the case under IPC Sections 186(obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions) and 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty). The unknwon persons also...
01:15 AM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee fell ill and was administered oxygen while her Finance Minister Amit Mitra was put under observation in AIIMS for some medical tests, hours after they were heckled by an angry mob of SFI activists outside the Planning Commission office. Sources close to Banerjee said she cancelled her meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the evening as she was not feeling well....
10:38 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: In the proposed third round of spectrum auction, the government may put on block 2G GSM airwaves in Delhi and Mumbai circles and CDMA spectrum in 13 circles that remained unsold in the previous sale held last month, sources said. The government earlier had said that it would conduct the third round of auction putting on block all 2G spectrum freed from cancellation of 122 licences, after the...
09:48 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday told his Italian counterpart Mario Monti that a view on specific aspects of the case involving two marines facing murder charges in the country cannot be taken pending investigations. However, Singh, who received a call from Monti, recalled the clarification given by the Ministry of External Affairs to Italy prior to the return of the marines to India last month. The telephone...
09:18 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: NIA, probing the killing of Kerala fishermen allegedly by two Italian marines, may drop a stringent provision of law that entails only death sentence for the offence of murder. Home Ministry officials hinted that even though the National Investigation Agengy (NIA) has booked the marines under the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against Safety of Maritime Navigation and Fixed Platforms on Continental Shelf Act, 2002, the charge may be...
08:14 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: As Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi sought to reach out to her, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday deflected questions on the possibilities of her party's tie-up with BJP. "Whatever I have come to know, he (Modi) appreciated the government. Political differences could be there but a government's work can be appreciated by anyone," she said. Banerjee was asked to respond to the praise heaped by...
08:02 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: One of the accused in the December 16 gangrape case on Tuesday sought a direction to IGNOU from the trial court to provide him a copy of the examination schedule for the first year of BA course. Accused Vinay Sharma, who along with four others had allegedly gangraped a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus here, filed the plea in a fast-track court trying the case. Vinay, in...
07:15 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: The Election Commission has told the Supreme Court that the new electronic voting machines (EVMs)'s are almost ready. The Election Commission will show the new EVMs to all the political parties sometime in May. The special feature of the new EVM is that as soon as the voter presses a button to cast his vote, a screen will show him that candidate whom he or she has voter...
05:21 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra was heckled by activists of Students Federation of India (SFI) in Delhi on Tuesday as he tried to enter the Yojna Bhawan. SFI activists shouted slogans against him and pushed him while policemen tried to pull him out of the crowd. Upset with the protests, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who had accompanied Mitra, vented her ire by blaming the Left...
04:08 PM, Apr 09, 2013
With both the Congress and the BJP gearing up for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the battle has now spilled onto Twitter. After Narendra Modi's speech on Monday, the Congress used the hashtag "feku" while referring to the Gujarat Chief Minister, drawing a sharp reaction from the BJP. ...
08:28 AM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: BJP leader Yashwant Sinha, who is a member of the JPC on 2G issue, on Monday wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stating he is "surprised and disappointed" over his refusal to depose before the panel. Sinha, who earlier written a letter to Singh asking that he should present himself before the Joint Parliamentary Committee, said he was unhappy with the response of the Prime Minister, through a...
08:56 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday asked the government to refrain from taking any "coercive steps" against Bharti Airtel, accused of illegally providing intra-circle roaming facilities in seven circles where it did not have the licences for the 3G spectrum. The apex court also asked the parties to maintain status quo on the issue till the matter is heard on April 11. "Let the matter be listed on April...
08:23 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday came out strongly in support of outlay over outcome while addressing the first Think India Dialogue of Network 18. Expressing his views on more governance and less government, he said, "One thinks of size of government when we talk of minimum government. I do not share this view. I don't mean to job cuts when I talk about minimum government." Modi...
07:24 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: As tensions mount in the Korean peninsula, India on Monday said it was watching the situation 'very carefully'. Noting that Joint Secretary in foreign ministry's East Asia division, Gautam Bambawale, was just back from a visit to North Korea, Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai said,"We will conduct a review as to what is the actual situation and what we need to do." India, in the past, has expressed concern...
05:40 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: Amid a fierce regulatory battle with capital markets watchdog Sebi, diversified conglomerate Sahara group has seen three independent members exiting from the boards of its various companies. Those having relinquished their association with Sahara group include RBI's former Deputy Governor Amitabha Ghosh, retired Supreme Court judge S Mohan and New India Assurance Company's former Chairman AC Mukherjee. Ghosh was on the board of group's life insurance venture Sahara...
04:48 PM, Apr 08, 2013
