Rome: Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti has expressed "great satisfaction" over the release on bail of two Italian marines charged with the killing of two Indian fishermen, but said the final objective of his government is to ensure their return to the country. "I express my own and the government's great satisfaction for the liberation, under bail conditions, of our marines. An important objective has been reached," Monti said in...
01:50 PM, Jun 03, 2012
London: The British Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's plea against extradition. Assange will be extradited to Sweden on sexual assault charges. The judge said that the decision was reached with a majority of five to two. Assange wasn't present in the court on Wednesday. "The request for Assange's extradition has been lawfully made and his appeal against extradition is accordingly is dismissed," said Supreme Court president...
02:07 PM, May 30, 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: For the second consecutive day, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) grilled YSR Congress Party leader YSJaganmohan Reddy for over seven hours on Saturday in the disproportionate assets case and directed him to appear again on Sunday. Jagan, as the MP from Kadapa is popularly known, told reporters that the CBI sought more clarifications from him and have asked him to come again Sunday. A tired-looking Jagan came out...
07:21 AM, May 27, 2012
New Delhi: As the number of gadgets in my backpack increases, so does my thirst for power. The problem arises when I am away from a power source, say while travelling in a bus or out camping. Therefore a couple of power banks also add to the weight on my shoulders. The problem with most power banks is that they only supply power and nothing else built in. This is...
02:48 PM, May 26, 2012
Liverpool: Liverpool striker Luis Suarez has criticised the FA for the eight-match ban he was given after racially abusing Manchester United defender Patrice Evra. The 25-year-old was found guilty of racially abusing Evra last October by an independent panel appointed by the FA, and was subsequently handed an eight-game ban, but is yet to publicly apologise to the United defender, and the Uruguayan believes the punishment was wrong and that...
09:17 AM, May 26, 2012
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will file its chargesheet in the sensational Shehla Masood murder case in the special CBI court in Indore on ...
04:55 PM, May 24, 2012
Former IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is being interrogated in a gangrape case dating back to 2010. ...
02:17 PM, May 22, 2012
Ghaziabad: A court in Ghaziabad on Monday deferred till Tuesday the charge-framing against dentist couple Nupur Talwar and Rajesh Talwar in the case relating to the murder of their teenaged daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj after the accused pleaded lack of preparation for arguments. The couple's advocate filed an application before the Additional District Judge of CBI special court Shyam Lal contending that the investigating agency has handed over...
05:29 AM, May 22, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The two Italian marines, Salvatore Girone and Latorre Massimillano, accused in the fishermen killings case, were charged with attempt to murder (Section 307) and the offence of committing murder (Section 302) on Friday. The SIT filed a chargesheet against the guards, Salvatore Girone and Latorre Massimillano, before the Kollam chief judicial magistrate court. The two had shot dead two fishermen in February this year, allegedly mistaking them for pirates....
01:16 PM, May 18, 2012
New York: Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has filed a $1 million counter-suit against the hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault, costing him his job and any chance of being elected president of France. New York police arrested Strauss-Kahn a year ago when hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo accused him of forcible oral sex and trying to rape her in his luxury suite at the Sofitel Hotel in Manhattan....
10:43 PM, May 15, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Friday dropped MCOCA charges against gangster Abu Salem. The High Court accepted the Delhi Police plea to drop the charges. Delhi Police had said the charges violate Salem's extradition rules. The Portugal court wanted MCOCA removed if Salem's extradition was to stand. "The petition of Delhi Police is allowed. The order dated August 28, 2009 passed by the designated lower court is set aside....
05:19 PM, May 11, 2012
HAVERI:Police resorted to a mild lathicharge to control the farmers who were waiting to purchase Bt cotton seeds at Taluk Agriculture Produce Cooperative Marketing Society (TAPCMS) here on Tuesday. Ten farmers were injured in the incident which took place when the crowd allegedly tried to break the barricades erected by police.The farmers had gathered at the society to buy Mahycos Kanaka Bt Cotton No 7351 seeds.Some of the injured farmers...
10:48 AM, May 09, 2012
Bangalore: A top police official has sought action against former cricketer Venkatesh Prasad and his wife for allegedly committing a "security breach" at the Chinnaswamy Stadium here after the IPL match between Deccan Chargers and Royal Challengers Bangalore. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central Division) Ravikante Gowda told that Prasad's wife, Jayanti, refused to listen when he intervened after she had a heated argument with an ASI who asked her and...
05:14 PM, May 07, 2012
Raipur: A Joint Commissioner of Income tax department has been arrested for allegedly accepting Rs 15 lakh bribe from local businessmen, the CBI said on Friday. The probe agency has also arrested three businessmen who had allegedly offered the bribe to him. Joint Commissioner PW Athalye along with his I-T team had carried out searches at the factory of Raipur-based Khetan group on April 16, agency sources said. The group...
09:02 PM, Apr 27, 2012
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