New Delhi: Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's sister Dalbir Kaur appealed on Thursday to all countrymen to unite and attack Pakistan, where her brother breathed his last in the wee hours of the day after remaining comatose for nearly a week following a brutal assault by his fellow inmates in a high-security Lahore jail. "Pakistan is a coward. It's time to wage a war against it," said Kaur, while addressing a...
12:03 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs has denied claims in Pakistani media that the Indian High Commission officials were consulted by Pakistani authorities before Sarabjit Singh was taken off ventilator support resulting in his death late on Wednesday night at Lahore's Jinnah Hospital. Sarabjit's family members also claimed that they came to know of his death from the Pakistani media and nothing was communicated to them officially. Meanwhile, Pakistan...
09:41 AM, May 02, 2013
Lahore/New Delhi: 3:46 pm: Another post-mortem of Sarabjit Singh will be conducted when his body reaches Amritsar. 3:29 pm: Sarabjit Singh's post-mortem report will be released in Pakistan in three weeks. 3:09 pm: The post-mortem of Sarabjit Singh has been completed in Pakistan and his body will be handed over to Indian officials shortly. 2:44 pm: The Indian Foreign Secretary has spoken to his Pakistani counterpart asking him to speed...
08:31 AM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: The family of Sarabjit Singh, who is lying in coma in a Lahore hospital after an attack in a Pakistan jail, will meet Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in New Delhi on Thursday to seek his better treatment and bringing him back home. Official sources said Shinde has given time to the family, including Sarbjit's sister Dalbir, to hear their grievances. The family, which crossed over to India...
08:41 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: With Assembly polls just months away, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday requested Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde not to effect any unilateral transfer of senior officials of her government by his Ministry as it may hamper implementation of a number of key schemes. In a meeting with Shinde, Dikshit also urged him to fill the vacant posts at senior level at the earliest. "I have...
11:10 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Leh/New Delhi: Chinese troops have erected one more tent in Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) sector in Ladakh raising the number of such structures in the area of incursion to five, as the standoff between India and China on Monday entered the third week. With China showing no signs of withdrawing its troops from the Indian territory, sources said efforts to break the impasse over the incursion are yielding no results...
09:01 PM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: Speculation is rife over the fate of Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar in the wake of recent rape of a five-year-old girl and police insensitivity in handling it. There are reports that Kumar may be shifted out of the key post and Special Commissioner Bhim Sain Bassi may be asked to take charge as new Delhi Police chief. Home Ministry sources said Kumar, a 1976 batch IPS officer,...
08:42 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Jammu: BJP on Monday blamed Centre's soft attitude towards China as a reason behind the latest incursion in DBO sector in eastern Ladakh. "India's defence policy towards China is soft as a result of which China indulges in intrusions every now and then," BJP National Executive Member and former MP, Thupstan Chhewang, told reporters here on Monday. He also alleged that "Congress-led UPA government has adopted complete silence over incidents...
07:40 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Daman: The stand-off arising out of Chinese incursion in Ladakh would be resolved through talks between the armies of the two countries, Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said on Saturday. The area was "no-man's land" and disputed between the two countries, Shinde said adding troops of both the countries keep coming and going there. "The issue will be resolved by talks between two armies," he told reporters. Earlier in...
06:20 PM, Apr 27, 2013
New Delhi: Class XII student Beenu Rawat, who was slapped by a Delhi Police officer while protesting the rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, will meet Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde Friday to demand the dismissal of errant police officers. The 17-year-old Rawat will meet Shinde in his office at North Block 3 pm on Friday, a press statement said. She will also deliver a support letter carrying...
11:07 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Jaipur: BJP Mahila Morcha on Wednesday demanded that President Pranab Mukherjee should sack Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in the wake of rape cases and crime against women. A delegation of Mahila Morcha handed over a representation addressed to the President to the district collector in which they raised the demands and sought proper implementation of laws related with women's safety. A five-year-old was brutally raped in Gandhi Nagar area...
09:07 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Indore: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh has said that Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan should step down first in wake of growing child rape cases in the state. The Congress leader was reacting to a query over demands of Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's resignation over the Delhi rape case involving a five-year-old. "If that is the case, then Shivraj Singh Chouhan should step down first. There is...
05:48 PM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday deferred to May 16 its order on whether to summon Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in connection with a defamation case filed against him for his 'Hindu terror' remark. Metropolitan magistrate Amitabh Rawat, who had called the complainant to deliver the order after the counsel completed the arguments, postponed the date to May 16 saying the order was not ready. The court...
08:46 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Protests over the rape of a 5-year-old girl in New Delhi intensified even as Aam Aadmi Party demanded resignations of Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar. Former Joint Police Commissioner in Delhi Maxwell Pereira joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the matter. Q. I totally condemn the way people come down to the streets like this in the aftermath of such incidents. We, as...
04:45 PM, Apr 23, 2013
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11:49 PM, Apr 22, 2013
Protests over the rape of a 5-year-old girl in New Delhi intensified on the third consecutive day even as Aam Aadmi Party demanded resignations of Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar. ...
11:46 PM, Apr 22, 2013
Protests over the rape of a 5-year-old girl in New Delhi intensified on the third consecutive day even as Aam Aadmi Party demanded resignations of Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar. ...
07:30 PM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: In the wake of the Bangalore blast, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Monday pushed for setting up the NCTC to strengthen intelligence gathering. Making a statement in the Lok Sabha on the blast outside BJP office in Bangalore, Shinde said the Home Ministry was also working towards putting in place an explosive tracking system. "We also need to strengthen the intelligence set up of the states. We...
03:55 PM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Monday sought to defuse tension over the recent Delhi rape case and said that crimes against women were not Delhi-centric, but happened across India. Laying down a statement in the House, Shinde said that prompt action had been taken in the case and added that reports of the police offering bribe to the survivor's family to hush up the matter would be...
02:40 PM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: Women and student activists on Sunday converged near India Gate, which had witnessed large scale anti-rape protests in December 2012, demanding justice for the five-year-old rape survivor in the national capital. Student protesters from JNU tried to march towards India Gate but were prevented from moving closer. They staged protests near Patiala House court complex. Some students were stopped near Taj Mansingh hotel. Women activists also reached near...
06:44 PM, Apr 21, 2013
