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Delhi Police's budget allocation raised

Delhi Police will get Rs 4,455.21 crore for next fiscal, an increase of Rs 587.88 crore from the last budget, after the year saw demands that it spruce up training and infrastructure to provide better security to people, especially women, in the national Capital. For upgrading training facilities and installation of traffic signals Rs one crore and Rs four crore respectively have been allocated while another Rs two crore has...  

Michael Vaughan says Tom Maynard's death is a lesson for budding cricketers

An inquest was told on Monday that Maynard was nearly four times above the legal alcohol limit for driving and had taken cocaine and ecstasy before he was electrocuted and hit by a train in June last year. ...  

Maynard was high on drugs before accident: Police

Tom Maynard was electrocuted after stepping on a live track before he was hit by a train, causing him to die from multiple injuries last year. ...  

No case for Luis Suarez over Zenit incident: UEFA

Suarez was pictured stepping on Zenit defender Tomas Hubocan's back near the end of a Europa League match at Anfield last Thursday. ...  

'Shinde's Hindu terror clarification was not an apology'

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath spoke to Karan Thapar on 'Devil's Advocate' on various issues that the government has on its hands right now like the tainted AgustaWestland chopper deal, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's clarification on Hindu terror remarks and Suryanelli gangrape case that has brought back Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman PJ Kurien into the spotlight yet again. ...  

BJP cleared Shinde's apology on Hindu terror remark: Nath

Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath has said that the statement issued by Home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde expressing regret over his Hindu terror comment was cleared by the BJP before being released publicly. ...

2G collusion: Balwa denies links with AK Singh

Widening its probe into the 'taped' conversation between Central Bureau of Investigation prosecutor AK Singh and Unitech Managing Director Sanjay Chandra, the investigating agency on Wednesday questioned Swan and DB Realty promoter Shahid Balwa. ...  

2G collusion: Shahid Balwa reaches CBI headquarters

Swan and DB Realty promoter Shahid Balwa on Wednesday reached the Central Bureau of Investigation headquarters in Delhi after the investigating agency summoned him for questioning in connection with the audio recordings of purported conversation between the CBI prosecutor AK Singh and another 2G scam accused Unitech Managing Director Sanjay Chandra. ...  

The way Afzal was hanged is a blot on Indian democracy: Fali Nariman

Senior Supreme Court Advocate Fali Nariman has said that in a country like India, death penalty cannot be abolished easily but added that life imprisonment must mean imprisonment for entire life. ...  

Local body polls in Karnataka on March 7

Elections for 208 urban local bodies in Karnataka will be held on March 7. This was announced by State Election Commissioner CR Chikkamath after the Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the State Chief Secretary to comply with the directions issued by SEC on holding elections. Chikkamath said that elections to seven city corporations, except Bangalore and other local bodies would be held on March 7. ...  

This is a day for calm and restraint, says RPN Singh

Minister of State for Home Affairs RPN Singh has said that the body of Afzal Guru, who was convicted in the 2001 Parliament attack, was hanged and also buried inside Tihar Jail due to security reasons. ...  

Salgaocar beat Shillong Lajong in I-League tie

Salgaocar, who scored their second straight win, moved up the ladder with 20 points from 19 matches, and now out of the relegation zone. ...  

Salgaocar confident of overcoming Lajong challenge

Francis Fernandes, who scored a brace to stun Pune FC in their last match, is the man on whom Salgaocar will rely to spearhead their attack. ...  

Coal block allocation: CBI questions Shibu Soren

The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday questioned Jharkhand Mukti Morcha chief Shibu Soren in connection with the coal block allocation scam. Soren was questioned in the capacity of having been the coal minister in 2006. ...  

ICC praises BCCI, MCA, OCA for hosting Women's WC

Dave Richardson thanked BCCI, MCA and OCA for successfully hosting the ongoing Women's World Cup. ...  

Asking for Nandy's arrest was unnecessary: Tharoor

Are we becoming an intolerant society and is the Indian state defensive freedom of speech weak and equivocal? Those are the two issues Karan Thapar raised with the Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor in his show Devil's Advocate. ...  

Salgaocar crush Pune FC 2-0

The hosts were reduced to 10 men in the final moments of the game after defender Gurjinder Kumar received marching orders. ...  

'Vishwaroopam' ban: Advocate General blames censor board

Just a day after Kamal Haasan's 'Vishwaroopam' got the green signal from the Madras High Court to screen the film, the decision was overturned on Wednesday. Tamil Nadu Advocate General A Navaneetha Krishnan said the interim order was against public interest and that the censor board itself was flouting norms when clearing films. ...