New Delhi: Bharti Airtel on Friday approached the Supreme Court challenging the Delhi High Court's order giving its nod to the Centre's decision holding the 3G roaming pact of the telecom major as illegal. The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on March 15 had issued a notification restraining Bharti from providing 3G intra-circle roaming facilities in seven circles where it did not have the spectrum and also levied a penalty of...
06:39 PM, Apr 05, 2013
New Delhi: S Gopalakrishnan, co-founder and Executive Co-Chairman of Infosys, has been elected as the President of the industry body Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for the year 2013-14. He succeeds Adi Godrej, Chairman of the Godrej Group, CII said in a statement. A Padma Bhushan recipient, Gopalakrishnan was recently voted as the top CEO (IT services category) in Institutional Investor's inaugural ranking of Asia's Top Executives, and selected as...
06:30 PM, Apr 05, 2013
New Delhi: A woman leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has alleged that she was assaulted by a gang of drunk men in a posh locality of south Delhi late on Thursday night. BJP's national General Secretary Vani Tripathi said she was assaulted by five men, who were driving a Scorpio car, near Savitri cinema in Greater Kailash (GK), a posh locality in south Delhi. "I was coming back...
06:13 PM, Apr 05, 2013
New Delhi: A 23-year-old teacher may lose her eyesight partially after suffering an acid attack in Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh a few days back. Doctors at Delhi's Gangaram Hospital, where the teacher has been brought for treatment, now say that the almost 50 per cent of the woman's vision is expected to be restored, as her cornea has suffered major damage in the acid attack. She has undergone one...
11:20 AM, Apr 05, 2013
New Delhi: One of the four adult accused in the December 16 gangrape case on Thursday alleged before a special court that he is receiving life threats in Tihar jail from a police constable who is continuously abusing him. After being permitted by the court to speak, Akshay Singh, his voice quivering with emotion, told Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Yogesh Khanna that a police constable was threatening to kill him...
09:06 PM, Apr 04, 2013
New Delhi: The fast of AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal against "inflated" power and water bills on Thursday entered the 13th day with the party announcing that it will organise an all-religion prayer meeting on Friday. In a statement, AAP said that so far, 9.6 lakh Delhiites have signed up for their 'Civil Disobedience Movement' which will enter the second stage on Saturday when activists will reconnect connections snapped after non-payment...
08:32 PM, Apr 04, 2013
New Delhi: The December 16, 2012 brutal gangrape of a 23-year-old paramedical student who later died due the horrific assault led to a massive public outrage and forced the government bring a anti-rape law. Despite the public outrage and demand for strict punishment for the culprits following the Delhi gangrape, the rape victims continue to be face a lot of hardships. In one such incident, an eight-year-old rape victim and...
02:10 PM, Apr 04, 2013
New Delhi: A land dispute is suspected to be behind the murder of BSP leader and business tycoon Deepak Bhardwaj in New Delhi March 26, 2013, a police source said on Wednesday. The realtor might have been killed in connection with a 30 acre piece of land in Haryana's Bahadurgarh area, the source said. Investigators have launched a hunt for spiritual leader Swami Pratimanand with whom Bhardwaj is believed to...
04:30 AM, Apr 04, 2013
Delhi Police have launched a manhunt in Haryana and Uttarakhand for a "spiritual guru" who is suspected to be behind the murder of local BSP leader Deepak Bhardwaj allegedly over a land dispute. Investigators are also on the look out for another associate, believed to be a commercial pilot, of the spiritual guru who is said to have approached alleged shooters -- Purushottam Rana and Sunil Mann -- with the...
11:08 PM, Apr 03, 2013
The mystery behind billionaire Bahujan Samaj Party leader and real estate tycoon Deepak Bhardwaj's murder is yet to resolved. After arresting the two men who allegedly shot dead Bhardwaj, the richest candidate in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls from Delhi with declared assets of over Rs 600 crore, at his farmhouse in Delhi on March 26 in his 35-acre farmhouse in south Delhi's Rajokri, Delhi Police is searching for a...
12:50 PM, Apr 02, 2013
Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams, who is visiting India after returning to India after spending 127 days in space, interacted and shared her experiences with students at National Science Centre in New Delhi on Monday. Sunita Williams's itinerary includes visits to Delhi, Mumbai and Gujarat. ...
05:24 PM, Apr 01, 2013
A 25-year-old man was shot dead outside his house by one of the four drunken persons he was playing Holi with, police said on Thursday. ...
12:47 AM, Mar 29, 2013
The health of Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal, who is on the sixth day of his indefinite fast to protest against the "inflated" electricity and water bills in New Delhi, has started to deteriorate. ...
01:15 PM, Mar 28, 2013
The Delhi Police on Sunday announced it would take tough action this Holi against traffic violators, particularly those caught drinking and driving. ...
07:39 PM, Mar 24, 2013
Priya Dutt, Congress MP and sister of actor Sanjay Dutt, breaks down outside the Supreme Court in New Delhi. ...
04:25 PM, Mar 21, 2013
Arvind Kejriwal accused Chidambaram of first allowing the CBI to raid Stalin and then expressing his displeasure. ...
11:03 AM, Mar 21, 2013
Delhi unit of BJP on Wednesday criticised the 2013-14 budget presented by the city government charging it is full of misleading and false data and old projects have been repeated. ...
12:26 AM, Mar 21, 2013
Irked at an MLA for not taking his phone calls, a drunken man today "fired" with a toy pistol outside the Delhi legislator's office here today triggering panic in the area. ...
04:34 PM, Mar 19, 2013
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi arrives in New Delhi on Monday on a three-day visit, after a short stopover in Islamabad, to boost bilateral ties with India, especially in trade. ...
02:38 AM, Mar 18, 2013
A 15-year-old girl who had set herself on fire after being allegedly sexually harassed by a boy in Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad town died at a Delhi hospital on Saturday, police said. The girl died at the Safdarjung Hospital after infection spread to her vital organs owing to the burn injuries. ...
12:20 PM, Mar 16, 2013
