Guwahati: A Congress legislator in Assam on Friday filed an FIR against party MLA Rumi Nath alleging that she along with her second husband had illegally entered his residence and beat up visitors suspecting them to be involved in the attack on the couple last week. Police said the FIR was filed after Congress MLA Kamalakhya Purkayastha from North Karimganj constituency faxed the complaint to the Dispur police station. Purkayastha...
01:27 PM, Jul 06, 2012
Hyderabad: The CBI on Tuesday filed a supplementary chargesheet in the disproportionate assets case of Kadapa MP Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, which is supplementary to first chargesheet which was filed on March 31. The investigating agency has so far filed three chargesheets in the case and Jagan Mohan Reddy, his financial advisor V Vijay Sai Reddy and the companies of the MP were named accused in the three documents....
10:31 AM, Jul 04, 2012
Mumbai: The CBI is likely to file its first chargesheet in the Adarsh Housing scam on Tuesday against some of the members of the upscale society, 18 months after a case was registered in this connection. The scam had fuelled a political storm in Maharashtra that led to the resignation of Ashok Chavan as Chief Minister. Chavan is among the 14 accused in the case in which Union Ministers Vilasrao...
06:42 PM, Jul 02, 2012
New Delhi: Get ready to pay even more. The new 12 per cent additional Service Tax comes into effect from Sunday. The new tax covers all services except 38 activities that are put on the negative list. The switch-over to a negative list is aimed at unifying the tax and levies of the Centre and the States, but is also expected to increase the Centre's Service Tax collection up from...
08:52 AM, Jul 01, 2012
Twenty-four hours after a Shimla court charged him with criminal misconduct, Union Minister Virbhadra Singh met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and resigned from the Cabinet. ...
09:59 PM, Jun 26, 2012
New Delhi: Sistema Shyam TeleServices (SSTL) which operates under MTS brand name, said it has slashed internet usage tariffs by up to 60 per cent in Delhi NCR circle. "We have specially designed these tariffs to provide our data customers with a world class mobile internet experience at the most affordable price backed by increased usage benefits," MTS India Chief Operating Officer, (Delhi NCR and Haryana Circle) Shankar Bali said...
05:33 PM, Jun 26, 2012
New Delhi: The Bombay High Court will resume hearing the Adarsh housing society case on Monday. In the last hearing on April 30, the CBI had told the court that it will file the chargesheet in the case by June 15. However, with its failure to file the chargesheet, the agency is likely to again come under attack from the court. The CBI had arrested nine of the 14 accused...
07:20 AM, Jun 18, 2012
Washington: The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has brought formal doping charges against U.S. cyclist Lance Armstrong and he has been immediately banned from competition in triathlons as a result, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday. Armstrong, a seven-time Tour de France winner, denied the charges in a statement: "I have never doped, and, unlike many of my accusers, I have competed as an endurance athlete for 25 years with no...
08:34 AM, Jun 14, 2012
Cuttack: The crime branch, which is probing the Pipili rape case, on Tuesday filed its fourth charge sheet warranting trial of SCB Medical College superintendent DN Moharana and two other doctors. The Judicial Commission, inquiring the same matter, also issued notices to Moharana and six others asking them to file their affidavit before it by June 30. The crime branch police, who had earlier filed charge sheets in the case...
11:38 PM, Jun 12, 2012
New York: Just when you thought airlines were done with ridiculous fees and onerous policies, Spirit Airlines has announced it is raising a charge for carry-on bags to $100 and United Airlines has said it will no longer allow families with small children to board early. And that's not to mention that it's becoming common practice to put a premium on aisle and window seats, forcing families that want to...
12:55 PM, Jun 05, 2012
Idukki: In fresh trouble for a senior CPI-M functionary in Kerala, police on Monday booked MM Mani in another murder case on the basis of his controversial speech on eliminating political foes. For the first time, the case naming a specific murder of a man in 1980s was registered against Idukki district CPI-M Secretary Mani and four others in Rajakad police station in the district, police said. The case listing...
01:32 AM, Jun 05, 2012
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
The lawyer of Luke Pomersbach denied the cricketer had confessed to the police of having inadvertently touched or molested US citizen Zohail Hameed. ...
10:05 PM, May 21, 2012
Luke Pomersbach, facing charges of molestation, has been instructed to surrender his passport and not leave the country. ...
04:40 PM, May 19, 2012
