We've all heard tragic stories about someone dying of cardiac arrest on the football field or during a board meeting. What we've heard next are related stories about what a stressful, over-leveraged lifestyle brings along with it. The fact is there are certain genetic mutations, highly prevalent in the Indian subcontinent, that increase the risk of chronic heart failures in individuals. But, what if there was a genetic test that...
05:50 PM, Mar 07, 2013
New Delhi: Rohit Shekhar, who claims to be the biological son of ND Tiwari, on Thursday moved the Delhi High Court for launch of contempt proceedings against the veteran Congress leader for allegedly not paying him Rs 25,000 as fine and expenses incurred by him on Tiwari's DNA test as per the court's order. "The defendant no 1 / contemnor (Tiwari) had not paid the costs amounting to Rs 25,000...
10:49 PM, Nov 01, 2012
New Delhi: In a huge setback for Congress leader N D Tiwari, the Delhi High Court on Friday opened his DNA test results according to which he is the biological father of Rohit Shekhar, a man who filed a paternity suit four years ago. Following the development, Rohit said, "I will demand compensation for what he made me go through." These were ominous words from a man, who has been...
11:15 PM, Jul 27, 2012
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader ND Tiwari DNA lost the paternity suit filed against him by 32-year-old Rohit Shekhar and the test results proved that Tiwari is the biological father of Shekhar. The Delhi High Court on Friday gave the details of Tiwari's DNA test, which was carried out after Shekhar moved the court claiming that the Congress leader was his father. While revealing the details of the DNA test,...
05:29 PM, Jul 27, 2012
New Delhi: DNA test results have revealed that senior Congress leader ND Tiwari is the biological father of 32-year-old Rohit Shekhar. The Delhi High Court on Friday gave the details of Tiwari's DNA test, which was carried out after Shekhar moved the court claiming that the Congress leader was his father. While revealing the details of the DNA test, the court said, "ND Tiwari and Ujjwala Sharma are the biological...
04:21 PM, Jul 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday rejected senior Congress leader ND Tiwari's plea to hold a trial in the case and reveal his DNA test results only at the end of it. The court is scheduled make the test results public on Friday. The court also observed that the Supreme Court has not said the matter should be kept confidential. The Delhi High Court had on Friday dismissed...
12:57 PM, Jul 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will hear senior Congress leader ND Tiwari's plea at 10.30 am on Friday to hold a trial in the case and reveal his DNA test results only at the end of it. The court is already scheduled make the test results public at 2 pm on Friday. Tiwari has also moved the Supreme Court for a clarification on the matter. The Delhi High Court...
08:32 AM, Jul 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is likely to take up senior Congress leader ND Tiwari's petition. Tiwari, who is facing a paternity lawsuit, wants the results of his DNA test to be kept confidential. The Delhi High Court had on Friday dismissed Tiwari's plea seeking fresh trial and in-camera proceedings in the paternity case. The court said it will reveal the DNA test results this week. Rohit Shekhar, 32, had...
10:50 AM, Jul 26, 2012
New Delhi: Veteran Congress leader ND Tiwari on Wednesday urged the Delhi High Court to keep the report of his DNA test confidential till the conclusion of the hearing in a paternity suit filed by a man claiming to be Tiwari's biological son. He also requested for in-camera proceedings in the suit. Rohit Shekhar, 32, in 2008 filed the suit claiming to be the biological son of Tiwari, 87. Hyderabad-based...
12:51 AM, Jul 19, 2012
Bangalore: The DNA test report of a French diplomat, arrested on the charge of raping his four-year-old daughter, was received by the police in Bangalore on Friday. "We have received the DNA test report of Mazurier this evening. Some contents (findings) in the report are negative and some others positive, Hence we are seeking certain clarifications (from the lab)," said ACP (Law and Order) T Suneel Kumar. Pascal Mazurier, Deputy...
11:40 PM, Jul 06, 2012
Hyderabad: The Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics in Hyderabad on Friday received the blood samples of N D Tiwari, the youth who claims to be his biological son and also the youth's mother for the DNA test over the paternity suit involving the veteran Congress leader. The blood samples of the youth Rohit Sekhar and his mother Ujjwala Sharma were collected in the Delhi High Court on May 26...
09:20 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Wednesday hear Congress leader ND Tiwari's plea against being forced to give his blood sample to determine a paternity lawsuit. Tiwari has challenged a Delhi High court order that instructs the registrar to allow the use of police help to obtaining his blood sample in the paternity suit filed by Rohit Shekhar. The 86-year-old leader has been embroiled in the paternity case for...
06:57 AM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: Congress leader ND Tiwari has been directed by the Delhi High Court to give blood sample on May 26 for the DNA test in connection with a paternity case. The veteran Congress leader has been forced to give a sample to settle a paternity suit. The 86-year-old leader has been embroiled in the paternity case for over four years, and the court had earlier ordered that police may...
12:37 PM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday restrained veteran Congress leader ND Tiwari from leaving India until he furnishes his blood sample for a DNA test. Justice Reva Khetrapal, hearing the plea of a man who claims to be the biological son, granted two days time to Tiwari to inform the court whether he wants to give blood sample willingly or not. The high court on April 27 had...
12:30 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejects the plea of veteran Congress leader N D Tiwari against a High Court order in connection with a paternity suit filed against by Rohit Shekhar. The apex court ordered that the former Andhra Pradesh governor would have to give his blood sample for a DNA test. Tiwari had pleaded that he should not be forced to give his blood sample as the...
01:04 PM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: Hearing the paternity suit against senior Congress leader ND Tiwari, the Delhi High Court on Friday asked him to give his blood sample so that the DNA test could be carried out. The High Court also said that police assistance could be taken to get the blood sample if Tiwari does not cooperate. "Take police assistance if ND Tiwari contines to evade court directive," said the High Court....
11:43 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Cuttack: The Orissa High Court on Tuesday ordered DNA tests to identify the parents of the baby girl, who is lying unclaimed in a hospital in Cuttack ever since she was born on March 30 after the woman who was said to be her mother claimed that her child had been swapped. The Division Bench of Chief Justice V Gopala Gowda and Justice SK Mishra adjudicating in a writ petition...
01:32 AM, Apr 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday reserved its order on veteran Congress leader ND Tiwari's plea contending he cannot be compelled to give his blood sample for DNA test on a paternity suit by a Delhi youth claiming himself to be his biological son. Justice Gita Mittal reserved the order after hearing arguments by the counsel for Tiwari and that for 31-year-old youth Rohit Shekhar who claims to...
07:23 PM, Aug 02, 2011
London: A four-year-old British girl, who was allegedly kidnapped while on a holiday in Portugal in 2007, has reportedly been tracked down to Leh city in India's Jammu and Kashmir state. The parents of Madeleine McCann are, however, awaiting the results of a DNA test after a girl suspected to be the missing child was spotted in Leh, the Daily Mail reported. Kate and Gerry McCann's team of private investigators...
06:24 PM, Jul 28, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked veteran Congress leader ND Tiwari to appear before it on June 1 and give his blood samples for DNA test to ascertain a 31-year-old man's claim that he is his biological son. "Let all the persons concerned (Tiwari, Rohit Shekhar and his mother Ujjwala Sharma) appear in person on June 1 (in the court's dispensary) to give their blood samples for...
12:48 PM, May 10, 2011
