
Mumbai: Days after the special CBI court granted bail to seven accused in the Adarsh Society scam, two more accused have filed their bail applications. Former city civic chief Jairaj Phatak and former state chief information commissioner Ramanand Tiwari approached the sessions court on Monday, saying the CBI has not filed the charge sheet even 60 days after their arrest. If Phatak and Tiwari are also granted bail, then all...

02:13 PM, Jun 04, 2012

New Delhi: The trial in the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case has been adjourned till June 8. The case was adjourned due to the death of a member of Ghaziabad Bar Association. Aarushi's parents, Nupur and Rajesh, have been charged with murder and destruction of evidence. Apart from this Rajesh Talwar has been charged with misleading the probe. Nupur Talwar's bail plea was rejected by the Allahabad High Court last week,...

11:31 AM, Jun 04, 2012

Kochi/Kollam: After 105 days in custody, the two Italian marines, arrested for allegedly gunning down two Indian fishermen off Kerala waters, were on Saturday released on bail as a court in Kollam posted their trial to June 18. Latore Massimilliano and Salvatore Girone walked out of the Borstal prison around 9.30 pm after they fulfilled the stringent bail conditions of the Kerala High Court, prison authorities said. Though the Jail...

12:28 AM, Jun 03, 2012

Athens: The leftwing party that came a surprising second in last months Greek elections has pledged to halt interest payments due on the countrys debt and revoke the terms of its bailout agreement if it comes to power in a re-run vote on June 17. Alexis Tsipras, leader of the far-left Syriza party, said he would also cancel 11bn of cuts due to be implemented this month, reverse promised labour...

12:12 AM, Jun 03, 2012

New Delhi: A special court on Tuesday is expected to pronounce its order on the bail applications of 7 accused in the Adarsh housing scam. They are former defence officials, AR Kumar, MM Wanchu, RC Thakur and TK Kaul, former senior IAS officers PV Deshmukh and Pradeep Vyas and former Congress MLC Kanhaiyalal Gidwani. All the accused have sought bail on the ground that CBI had not filed a chargesheet...

06:50 AM, May 29, 2012

Hyderabad: A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on Thursday dismissed the plea of YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy for an interim anticipatory bail in the disproportionate assets case against him. The CBI had summoned Jagan to appear before it on May 25 in connection with the case. Earlier, the YSR Congress president had told CNN-IBN that he feared he might be arrested before the crucial by-elections in Andhra...

05:57 PM, May 24, 2012

There's a difference between horror and gore. Different types of films can be gory, including horror ones. However, horror films need not be gory. Indeed, films of the past relied more on scaring viewers by what lies hidden in the dark, rather than gore. The equation today has changed with most horror films trying to accentuate the fear element by excessive gore without often realising they end up doing just...

01:18 PM, May 20, 2012

Athens: Attempts to form a government in Greece collapsed on Tuesday, jolting financial markets at the prospect that leftists opposed to the terms of an EU bailout could sweep to victory in a June election and tip the euro zone deeper into crisis. The turmoil in Athens sent shock waves around other troubled members of the 17-nation European single currency area. The euro slipped below $1.28, world stocks slid and...

08:50 AM, May 16, 2012

New Delhi: A minor scuffle broke out between supporters of A Raja and media personnel outside the MP's residence in New Delhi on Tuesday night. The incident took place outside Raja's Motilal Nehru Marg residence at around 9 pm while a function was being held there to felicitate the MP, who got bail in the 2G spectrum case on Tuesday. According to media personnel, a group of his supporters raised...

10:04 PM, May 15, 2012

Chennai: As former telecom minister A Raja secured bail in the 2G spectrum case, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Tuesday said the case appeared to be getting "diluted". "I am hearing from you only now. It definitely looks as though it is getting diluted," she said in reply to a question from reporters on a Delhi court granting bail to Raja, the prime accused in the case, 15 months...

05:05 PM, May 15, 2012

Brussels: Euro zone finance ministers dismissed talk of Greece leaving the euro zone as "propaganda and nonsense" on Monday, but said the country had to respect the terms of the bailout programme agreed with the EU and the International Monetary Fund. If Greece can form a government and that government signs up to the bailout agreement, then it is possible some of the targets in the programme could be softened,...

07:32 AM, May 15, 2012

New Delhi: It is a crucial day for former telecom minister A Raja. After 15 months in the jail over the 2G scam, a Delhi court is likely to pronounce its verdict on his bail plea. This is the first time that he has sought bail in the 15 months that he's been in jail since his arrest in February, 2011. Special CBI Judge OP Saini had on May 11...

02:23 AM, May 15, 2012

Ranchi: Terming Aarushi murder as a tough case due to delay in getting the case, the CBI on Saturday felt early handing over the matter could have enabled it to gather solid evidence. "The CBI gets such cases very late. It gets such cases only after the state police and forensic experts finish their investigation. So, we don t have much time to get crucial evidence and it becomes difficult...

06:48 PM, May 12, 2012

New Delhi: A Delhi court is likely to hear on Friday arguments on the bail plea of former Telecom Minister A Raja who is in custody since his arrest on February 2 last year and is facing trial in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case. The CBI will on Friday file its reply on the bail plea of Raja, who had moved his first bail application on Wednesday after over...

03:24 AM, May 11, 2012

New Delhi: Former Union telecom minister A Raja, who has been facing trial in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case, has moved a Delhi court seeking bail. The accused in the 2G spectrum scam has been behind bars for 15 months. He moved the court for the bail hours after former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura was granted bail by the court. Notably, as many as 14 people were arrested in...

04:26 PM, May 09, 2012