New Delhi: The memo case comes up for a hearing in Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday. Mansoor Ijaz is expected to testify. The Pakistani businessman had claimed that he was asked by former envoy Husain Haqqani to deliver the secret memo to the US seeking assistance in the event of a coup in Pakistan. The case almost brought the civilian govt and military to blows. But on Saturday, Prime Minister...
01:25 PM, Jan 15, 2012
Mumbai: It was meant for creating much-needed awareness regarding road safety. But the drawing competition for schoolchildren being organised by Mumbai's regional transport offices (RTOs) and education department has now taken on a rather gloomy hue, with child psychologists claiming that subjects like 'The accident I saw' may send a young participant into post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The contest is being held during the ongoing road safety week -- from...
02:19 PM, Jan 06, 2012
Islamabad: A petition seeking the immediate removal of ISI chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha has been filed in Pakistan's Supreme Court, alleging his involvement in efforts to oust President Asif Ali Zardari. In his petition filed on Monday, Communist Party of Pakistan chairman Jameel Ahmed contended that Pasha was not eligible to hold the high post. He based his petition on articles in the foreign media which said Pasha...
02:17 PM, Dec 20, 2011
Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Wednesday reserved its ruling on a petition of former Andhra Pradesh chief minister and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N Chandrababu Naidu to overturn an order for a probe by the CBI and other agencies into his assets. After hearing the arguments of YSR Congress party leader Y.S. Vijayamma, the division bench of Justice G. Rohini and Justice Asutosh Mohunta reserved the order...
06:30 PM, Dec 14, 2011
Canberra: Australia's Qantas Airlines has been left red-faced after an ill-timed public relations campaign and Twitter competition backfired, drawing thousands of angry responses. Qantas on Tuesday invited users of the micro-blogging site to enter a "Qantas Luxury" competition, asking people to describe their "dream luxury in-flight experience" and possibly win a pair of Qantas first-class pyjamas and a toiletries kit. The timing of the PR exercise was questionable, coming just...
01:48 PM, Nov 22, 2011
Jaipur: The family of Pakistani doctor Khalil Chisti has been granted permission to meet the Governor of Rajasthan on Saturday to plead for his release on a month-long visa. Dr Chisti's wife, Meherunissa Chisti, said, "I appeal the Rajasthan Government to please release Dr Chisti in a months time. My visa will expire in a month. Everyone back home is really worried about him. Every year we have to celebrate...
08:42 AM, Nov 19, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is expected to hear Khalistani militant Devender Singh Bhullar's mercy petition on Tuesday. The Khalistani militant had been sentenced to death for triggering the 1993 Delhi car bomb attack that killed 12 people. He had filed a mercy petition before President Pratibha Patil in January, which was rejected in May. Bhullar's counsel had argued that the death penalty should only be handed out by a...
07:30 AM, Nov 15, 2011
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir unit of BJP on Monday said it would hold statewide protests against the proposed resolution seeking clemency for Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. "Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is saying that hanging of Guru would disturb situation in Kashmir Valley, we say if it is not done it would disturb situation in entire country," state BJP chief Shamsher Singh Manhas told reporters. The Jammu and Kashmir...
05:49 PM, Sep 26, 2011
New Delhi: The CBI will be giving a presentation to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on its proposal to file a Special Leave Petition in Supreme Court challenging the acquittal of 12 people in the murder of former Gujarat Home Minister Haren Pandya in 2003. Sources in the agency said a presentation was to be made soon before the Home Minister during which it was expected that he may point...
05:43 PM, Sep 04, 2011
Shah Rukh Khan talks about his success mantra at the launch Arindam Chaudhuri's new book 'Thorns to Competition'. ...
03:47 PM, Sep 01, 2011
New Delhi: It is a verdict that could bring some order to one of India's most disorganised sectors. The Rs 630 crore penalty imposed on real estate giant DLF will relieve customers, who say sale agreements are heavily tilted in favour of the builder. Head-Buyer Association at Dlf Park Place Harsh Sehgal said, "If I have to buy an apartment, I have to sign on dotted line. I have no...
07:16 AM, Aug 18, 2011
New Delhi: President Pratibha Patil has rejected the clemency petitions of three killers of Rajiv Gandhi whose death sentences were confirmed by the Supreme Court in 2000. The apex court had sentenced members of the banned Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) Murugan, Santhan, Perarivalan and Nalini to death in 1999 for the assassination of the former prime minister in Sriperumbudur on May 21, 1991. A Rasthrapati Bhavan spokesperson said...
03:53 PM, Aug 11, 2011
New Delhi: In a major development, the Government is understood to have recommended to President Pratibha Patil rejection of the clemency petition of Mohd Afzal Guru, convicted for the attack on Parliament in 2001. The move could pave the way for the likely hanging of Afzal, an issue that has already generated much controversy. Six years after Afzal appealed to the President of India to commute his death penalty, the...
06:08 PM, Aug 10, 2011
Racing enthusiasts design cars for the Baja SaeIndia 2012 competition. ...
09:26 PM, Aug 05, 2011
Bangalore: The Karnataka High Court on Monday dismissed the petition filed by police seeking cancellation of bail of self-styled godman Nithyananda and his associate, facing criminal charges including rape, for allegedly influencing witnesses. Justice Keshav Narayan dismissed the petition on the grounds there were no strong reasons to cancel the bail. The Crime Investigation Department (CID) has filed the petition seeking cancellation of the conditional bail granted to Nithyananda and...
06:45 PM, Jul 18, 2011
Jaipur: Dr Khalil Chisty, 78, who is battling several ailments at the Ajmer Jail may not have much time. And that's why the movement to release him and reunite him with his family across the border in Pakistan is gaining momentum. Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt has now put in his support for Dr Chisty's sentence to be commuted. Bhatt said, "We have to eventually send him back someday but if we...
08:59 AM, Jul 06, 2011
New Delhi: Mercy petitions of 17 people on death row are pending before President Pratibha Patil, reply to a Right to Information (RTI) application has revealed. Most of the pleas are from those convicted of murder or rape. In reply to information sought under the RTI Act by Subhash Chandra Agarwal, the President's Secretariat said the oldest petition was from 2005, while six mercy petitions were submitted to her office...
10:15 AM, Jul 04, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to give immediate hearing on a petition seeking to restrain the government from circulating the draft of the proposed Lokpal Bill to parliamentarians. A vacation bench comprising justices P Sathasivam Reddy and A K Patnaik said the matter of the Lokpal bill is still under discussion and there is no need to interfere at this stage. "It is still under discussion. Why...
05:27 PM, Jun 29, 2011
New Delhi: Pleading that a mentally imbalanced person should not be executed, the wife of terrorist Devender Pal Singh Bhullar has urged the Supreme Court to quash his death penalty and commute it to life term. In a fresh writ petition filed by senior counsel K T S Tulsi, the convict's wife Navaneet Kaur submitted that carrying out the death penalty would amount to 'cruelty' and would be 'inhuman' and...
10:27 AM, Jun 26, 2011
Jaipur: Dr Khaleel Chisty, the 78-year-old Pakistani virologist, hopes for an early release from the Ajmer jail, even as the Indian and Pakistani foreign secretaries held talks in Islamabad. Dr Chisty, who is serving a jail term for murder in Ajmer, Rajasthan, has a chance of being released, as a goodwill gesture. Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said she was hopeful of an early release of Dr Khalil Chisty. "India is...
10:44 AM, Jun 24, 2011
