New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Saturday is likely to file a chargesheet in the Geetika Sharma suicide case. The key accused Former Haryana Minister Gopal Kanda and MDLR executive Aruna Chadha will be produced before a court on Saturday. Geetika had committed suicide on August 5. The sitting Haryana MLA was arrested on August 18 after he had surrendered before the police, 13 days after Geetika was found dead...
06:31 AM, Oct 06, 2012
Washington: Two US Marines are facing criminal charges for urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, actions caught on a video that was widely circulated on the Internet, the Marine Corps said on Monday. The criminal charges are the first faced by anyone over the incident. The video triggered widespread anger in Afghanistan early this year, with Afghan President Hamid Karzai calling the Marines' actions "inhuman." Staff...
03:21 AM, Sep 25, 2012
New Delhi: Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal today said that mobile phone subscribers will not have to pay roaming charges from next year. "From next year. Our secretary has told you that it will be free from next year," Sibal said here in response to a query on the timing of removing roaming charges as proposed in the National Telecom Policy 2012. The Minister was speaking to the media on the...
01:34 PM, Sep 24, 2012
New Delhi: Railways have no plans as yet to increase freight charges despite the steep hike in diesel prices which have put an additional burden of over Rs 1200 crores on it. "There is no move as yet to increase freight charges even if it (diesel price hike) hits us hard," said a senior Railway Ministry official. Railways consume about 250 crore litres of diesel per annum to run its...
03:49 PM, Sep 14, 2012
New Delhi: The politically tough decision of hiking diesel price and limiting the usage of LPG to just six cylinders in a year on subsidised rate has led to nation-wide protests with the UPA constituents as well as the Opposition parties taking to the streets, demanding an immediate rollback. Massive protests are taking place in Delhi, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Karnal, Kanpur, Allahabad, Agra, Ludhiana and several other cities over the government's...
01:30 PM, Sep 14, 2012
Mumbai: Cartoonist Aseem Trivedi was released from Arthur Road Jail on Wednesday afternoon after he accepted the conditional bail offered by the Bombay High Court. Trivedi was granted bail on a personal bond of Rs 5,000. Refusing to bow down to the pressure, Trivedi as soon as he stepped out of the Mumbai jail said, "Our fight will continue till the time the government continues to curb freedom of expression."...
01:31 PM, Sep 12, 2012
New Delhi: The arrest of Aseem Trivedi on sedition charges for his cartoons on Monday gave BJP fresh ammunition to target the UPA, even as the government said it was against censorship but wanted citizens to respect national symbols. BJP alleged that while the UPA government was involved in corruption cases like coal mines allocation, it was attacking democratic institutions and free speech as seen in the targeting of the...
10:51 PM, Sep 10, 2012
While the Press Council has called the charges against the cartoonist ridiculous, Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil has said that police custody was not needed. ...
11:23 AM, Sep 10, 2012
New Delhi: Just three days before the first anniversary of the 2011 Delhi High Court blast, a special court in Delhi on Tuesday fixed September 18 to frame charges against an accused, sources said. Fifteen people were killed and 79 others injured in the September 7, 2011 blast outside Gate No 5 of the high court complex. National Investigation Agency (NIA) Special Judge HS Sharma, during the in-camera proceedings, found...
01:54 AM, Sep 05, 2012
Team owners reportedly mortgaged it to banks without BCCI's consent and are unable to sort out financial issues. ...
11:05 AM, Sep 04, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI on Monday informed the Supreme Court that it will file chargesheet in the Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter case in a Gujarat court on Tuesday. Appearing before a bench of Justice BS Chauhan and Justice JS Khehar, Additional Solicitor General Haren Rawal assured the court that the charge sheet will be filed in the lower court on Tuesday. The bench, however, told the agency that it can...
06:14 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Islamabad: With a showdown between the government and the judiciary looming, top leaders of Pakistan's ruling party have held meetings to prepare a strategy for the standoff and to decide whether the Premier should appear in court on Monday to face a contempt charge. The apex court's order asking Raja Pervez Ashraf to appear before a five-judge bench was discussed at a meeting of the Pakitan People's Party's top leadership...
05:47 PM, Aug 25, 2012
Washington: Software giant Oracle has agreed to pay $2 million to settle US regulators' charges that its Indian subsidiary violated foreign anti-bribery laws by secretly setting aside money to make unauthorised payments to phony vendors. In a complaint filed with the federal court in San Francisco, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday alleged that during a period between 2005 and 2007, employees at Oracle India had distributors...
11:04 AM, Aug 17, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI is set to file a chargesheet in a special court in Ahmedabad in the Tulsiram Prajapati alleged fake encounter case on Tuesday. Prajapati was a witness to the alleged fake encounter killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh by the Gujarat Police in November 2005. The CBI had alleged that Sohrabuddin, Kauser Bi and another person, suspected to be Prajapati, were picked up by a team of Gujarat and...
08:32 AM, Aug 14, 2012
New Delhi: After Saturday's violence in Mumbai's Azad Maidan, 23 people have been arrested and slapped with murder charges. Investigations are still going on into the nature of the clashes. The BJP has slammed the state government for not being able to control the situation. Police told court that they want to interrogate the accused to find out whether the violence was pre-planned, they are yet to recover the three...
07:24 AM, Aug 13, 2012
New Delhi: Maintaining that it was against the "principle of protection", the Law Ministry has opposed a provision in the Lokpal Bill which gives the ombudsman power to file charge sheet against a public servant without the prior sanction of competent authority. "...The proposal to do away with the requirement of previous sanction... where prosecution is proposed by Lokpal, would be against the principle of protection needed for the public...
12:46 PM, Aug 12, 2012
Chennai: The first of August could be a very turbulent day for passengers of most domestic airlines, if theyre scheduled to fly in or out of the Chennai airport. After the Airports Authority of India (AAI) raised the sum of royalties collected for ground-handling charges from 13 per cent to 32.5 per cent for all airlines from August, every single one has objected and refused to cough up the additional...
12:37 PM, Aug 01, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday is expected to hear controversial CPI(M) leader MM Mani's plea to quash FIRs registered against him over his speech on elimination of political foes. Mani had earlier moved the Kerala High Court saying if such tendencies are not checked, it would sound the "death knell" of democracy. Justice S Satishchandran, however, dismissed his plea saying the speech and the revelations prima facie discloses...
12:32 PM, Jul 23, 2012
Mumbai: Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, an accused in the multi-crore Adarsh scam, returned Rs 69 lakh, allegedly received by him from his "close aide" Jayant Shah to purchase flats for his relatives at the highrise, soon after the scandal was unearthed and a PIL was filed in the Bombay High Court in 2010. This has been revealed by CBI in its over 10,000-page chargesheet filed earlier this month...
11:04 PM, Jul 22, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI is all set to chargesheet former Union Health minister Anbumani Ramadoss in yet another medical college scam. A little known medical college in central Uttar Pradesh was reportedly sanctioned by Ramadoss, which points to a blatant misuse of power. If chargesheeted, this would be the second against the former minister in two months. Rohilkhand Medical College in Bareilly was sanctioned by six persons including Ramadoss, the...
03:21 PM, Jul 14, 2012
