
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

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

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

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

New Delhi: A key accused in the terror attack at the Delhi High Court reception is willing to turn approver and has sought the trial court's permission for it. Amir Abbas Dev, chargesheeted by the NIA for his alleged role in the bomb explosion at the high court's reception on September 7, 2011, has moved the court of District Judge (DJ) HS Sharma saying that he should be made an...

03:09 AM, Apr 19, 2012

Mumbai: An FIR was on Tuesday registered against a senior police officer on charge of raping a middle-aged housewife after an internal enquiry concluded his role in the crime, police said. The woman had approached top brass of the city police few weeks ago complaining against Assistant Police Commissioner Anil Mahabole that he had raped and blackmailed her for the past eight months, they said. According to police, the woman...

11:14 PM, Apr 17, 2012

San Francisco: A former Intel Corp employee who allegedly stole from the chipmaker documents worth hundreds of millions of dollars pleaded guilty on Friday to five counts of wire fraud. Federal prosecutors in Boston had alleged that Biswamohan Pani, 36, downloaded some of Intel's "most valuable" design and manufacturing documents in June 2008, in his final days as an engineer in a Massachusetts facility. Intel was not aware at the...

11:33 AM, Apr 08, 2012

Lucknow: The CBI on Thursday filed the third chargesheet in the National Rural Health Mission scam before special court in Lucknow for alleged irregularities in purchase of computers and peripherals in Uttar Pradesh under the centrally sponsored scheme. The agency has charged Managing Director of Uttar Pradesh Public Sector Undertaking Shreeton India Limited, GK Batra, owner of Axis Marketing Virender Goel, and owner of Radhey Shyam Enterprises Neeraj Upadhyaya under...

07:48 PM, Apr 05, 2012