Islamabad: Pakistan's Supreme Court is set to release a secret list of journalists and media organisations that purportedly received payments from the federal government in the name of national security, according to a media report. The apex court is expected to make a final decision in this regard on April 17, when the government will submit a revised list of "covert expenses" after excluding only a few details for security...
05:46 PM, Apr 12, 2013
New Delhi: One child has died in the massive fire that broke out at a slum area in Delhi's Bawana region on Friday. Angry locals targeted police officials, who had reached the spot to tender assistance. 20 fire tenders were rushed to the spot and have finally contained the fire. Five people have been injured in the fire, which took place near an industrial area. Police said over a hundred...
05:16 PM, Apr 12, 2013
A fire broke out at Bawana slum clusters in Delhi on Friday gutting several hutments. Twenty-fire tenders were reportedly rushed to the site immediately to douse the blaze. ...
03:52 PM, Apr 12, 2013
New Delhi: A fire broke out at Bawana slum clusters in Delhi on Friday gutting several hutments. Twenty-fire tenders were reportedly rushed to the site immediately to douse the blaze. A team of police has also reached the spot. Initial reports said a loud sound was heard before the fire broke out indicating that an LPG cylinder blast could be the cause of the mishap. Officials, however, said the cause...
02:36 PM, Apr 12, 2013
The Wolfpack is back! Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis team up one last time for the final installment of 'Hangover'. The trailer of 'Hangover Part III' was recently released online. The film will be releasing on May 24, 2013. ...
11:53 AM, Apr 12, 2013
Bangalore: An FIR has been filed against Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil by Karnataka police for promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race or language for his alleged provocative speech on Belgaum issue, a bone of contention between the two states. Patil has also been booked under Representation of People Act for violation of the election code for the May 5 assembly poll in the state, police...
04:40 PM, Apr 11, 2013
Mumbai: In the high-profile refund case involving an estimated Rs 24,000 crore payment to over three crore investors, Sahara Group's chief Subrata Roy and other top executives will appear before the marget regulator Sebi on Wednesday. Sebi had summoned Roy and three other directors of two Sahara firms for personal appearance in an order dated March 26. Sebi wants to ascertain details of their personal assets, as also the investments...
08:29 AM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: In a possible breakthrough in the murder of Bahujan Samaj party leader and real estate tycoon Deepak Bhardwaj, the police have arrested his son Nitesh and two others for conspiracy of murder. Deepak Bhardwaj's wife and son were among those being questioned over the past 10 days over his murder and the police had not ruled out a family dispute in the case. The two others arrested are...
01:19 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: Spiritual leader Swami Pratibhanand, a suspect in the murder of BSP leader and realtor Deepak Bhardwaj in Delhi, is changing hideouts to avoid arrest, police on Monday said, adding that plots to kill the politician were also made in January and March 2013. A Delhi Police officer said that Pratibhanand, 48, has changed his hideouts in at least seven cities of separate states since March 26, 2013 murder...
05:28 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Mumbai: Police on Monday arrested two more people in connection with a seven-storey building collapse in Thane in which 74 people lost their lives. Police arrested Farookh Abdul Latif Chapra and Rafiq Daud Kamdar, taking the number of people arrested in the case to nine. Thane Police on Saturday arrested seven people including builders Jameel Qureshi and Saleem Shaikh, the Suspended Deputy Commissioner of Thane Municipal Corporation, the Assistant Municipal...
11:06 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: Investigations into the killing of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Deepak Bhardwaj has revealed that one of the absconding accused and self-styled godman Pratibhanand, who is suspected to have given the murder contract to the shooters, has been changing his appearance and getup to escape and hide from Delhi Police. According to sources, Pratibhanand is also moving from one place to another and changing his mobile number frequently...
01:43 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Khagaria: Three children were killed when a fire broke out in hutments in Bihar's Khagaria district, police said on Monday. The fire broke out Sunday night in a kitchen and soon spread to other hutments, destroying over 100 thatched huts, Circle Officer Pradeep Sinha said. The children who were killed in the blaze were identified as Anchal Kumari (3), Manisha Kumari (3) and Jitan Kumar (7). The damaged caused by...
11:47 AM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: A 35-year-old businessman was shot at and robbed of Rs 3 lakh by four unidentified attackers on bikes in Delhi on Sunday evening, police said. Shoe factory owner Parvej Yusuf was hit by a bullet in left thigh near Rampura bus stand in west Delhi's Punjabi Bagh area around 6.15 pm, police said. "Yusuf along with cousin Suban Khan was heading towards his house in west Delhi's Ganeshpura...
10:40 PM, Apr 07, 2013
New Delhi: Continuing with its investigation in the murder case of slain Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Deepak Bhardwaj, the Delhi Police on Sunday restricted his family from leaving Delhi without its permission. The police had earlier questioned Bhardwaj's wife Ramesh Kumari, their sons and his staff in connection with the case. Police suspect a land dispute could be the reason behind the murder of the BSP leader, who was...
04:37 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Mumbai: Thane Commissioner of Police KP Raghuvanshi on Sunday said that nine people have been arrested in the building collapse that led to death of 74 people and injured over 60 and sent to police custody till April 20. Raghuivanshi also said that one of the builders was nabbed in UP and the other in Thane. "We have also arrested some public servants who were involved in this. The builders...
03:48 PM, Apr 07, 2013
New Delhi: Market regulator SEBI has incurred initial costs of more than Rs 55 crore in its humongous task of facilitating Rs 24,000-crore refund to bondholders of two Sahara firms after verifying their credentials and Saharas would have to clear all these bills. The final expense bill of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) in this high-profile case could be much higher, as just two contracts - for...
03:17 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Mumbai: The police have now arrested one more person including two builders, the local corporator, an Assistant Sub Inspector, a Suspended Deputy Commissioner and also an Assistant Commissioner of the Thane Municipality in the Thane building collapse. The eight people have been charged under the Prevention of Corruption Act and for criminal conspiracy in the tragedy which led to death of 73 people. They eight accused were produced in court...
01:42 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Thane: The four-year-old miracle survivor of Thursday's Daighar building crash in Thane finally opened her eyes to harsh reality on Sunday, and cried, much to the relief of surviving relatives and siblings, doctors said. The victim, Sandhya Thakur, had been unable to open her eyes, swollen with dust, watering and psychological trauma, after the seven-storey building collapsed on Thursday. She had spent several hours under the debris before rescuers dug...
12:21 PM, Apr 07, 2013
New Delhi: The medium range, nuclear capable surface-to-surface Agni-II missile was on Sunday successfully test-fired with a strike range of more than 2,000 km from the Wheeler Island off Odisha coast. "The trial of the surface-to-surface missile was conducted from a mobile launcher from the Launch Complex-4 of Integrated Test Range (ITR) at around 10:20 am," defence sources said. "Agni-II Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) has already been inducted into...
11:26 AM, Apr 07, 2013
Mumbai: Seven people including the two builders were arrested on Saturday, three days after after a seven-storey building collapsed like a pack of cards in Thane. Seventy three people have died and more than 60 injured in Maharashtra's worst ever building collapse in decades. Thane Police on Saturday arrested seven people including builders Jameel Qureshi and Saleem Shaikh, the Suspended Deputy Commissioner of Thane Municipal Corporation, the Assistant Municipal Commissioner,...
08:09 AM, Apr 07, 2013
