The historic anti-rape Bill was finally passed in Lok Sabha on Tuesday. The Bill fixes the age of consent for sex at 18 years and the first offence of stalking is bailable. Two amendments, seeking life term for trafficking of children and life imprisonment for acid attack, were defeated. ...
11:59 PM, Mar 19, 2013
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11:55 PM, Mar 19, 2013
The DMK, the second largest constituent of the ruling coalition, the UPA, has officially withdrawn support from it. A delegation of DMK leaders, led by TR Baalu, handed over the letter of withdrawal of support from the UPA to President Pranab Mukherjee at 10.30 pm on Tuesday. The UPA is in minority in Parliament now. The coalition government will be more than ever at the mercy of powerful but fickle ...
11:47 PM, Mar 19, 2013
The DMK caught the UPA on the wrong foot on Tuesday as it announced a pullout from the alliance over the Sri Lanka war crimes issue. ...
09:54 PM, Mar 19, 2013
The DMK on Tuesday pulled out from the UPA government over the Sri Lankan war crimes issue. It said its ministers will resign soon. ...
07:37 PM, Mar 19, 2013
The Cabinet on Monday decided to raise the age of consensual sex back to 18 years, after various political parties spoke against the move of reducing it. It has also diluted the clauses on voyeurism and stalking in the Bill, which is now expected to be tabled in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. ...
11:58 PM, Mar 18, 2013
An interesting mix of films were chosen as winners for the 60th National Film Awards. Talented actor Irrfan Khan won the Best Actor award for his role in Tigmanshu Dhulia's 'Paan Singh Tomar'. The award was shared with veteran actor Vikram Gokhale who won it for his role in Marathi film 'Anumati'. ...
11:56 PM, Mar 18, 2013
There has been no breakthrough in talks between the Congress and the DMK over the Sri Lankan war crimes issue, sources said on Monday evening. Congress leaders P Chidambaram, AK Antony and Ghulam Nabi Azad had met M Karunanidhi at his residence in the evening to sort matters out after the latter threatened to pull out his ministers from the UPA Cabinet if his demands on the issue were not ...
11:55 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Maharashtra is suffering its worst drought in 40 years. Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan in an interview to CNN-IBN has admitted that better planning and implementation would have lessened the impact of the drought. ...
11:46 PM, Mar 14, 2013
A Cobrapost expose on Thursday revealed how employees at some private banks were brazenly carrying out money laundering operations. ...
11:27 PM, Mar 14, 2013
In the first major terror attack in Kashmir in 3 years, terrorists on Wednesday stormed a CRPF camp in the heart of the city in Bemina area killing 5 jawans and injuring at least 7 others. ...
11:58 PM, Mar 13, 2013
The Delhi Police on Tuesday admitted before the High Court that all the eight people arrested from India Gate were innocent. ...
11:57 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen claimed responsibility for Wednesday's attack on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in the heart of Srinagar, which left five CRPF personnel dead and seven injured. ...
11:47 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Senior counsel Harish Salve, who on Wednesday quit as the Italian marines' lawyer in the fishermen killing case, said that the Italian envoy will be made to appear before the Supreme Court if the two accused in the case did not return. Speaking to Rajdeep Sardesai, Salve also said that was no possibility of a deal between Italy and India, as the opposition parties have been alleging. ...
06:54 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Catch the day's top stories with Rajdeep Sardesai on India @ 9. India-Italy diplomatic row intensified on Tuesday after marines, who are accused of killing Indian fishermen, refused to return and face trial in India. While Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said it was unacceptable, the BJP cried conspiracy. ...
11:58 PM, Mar 12, 2013
March 12 is the 20th anniversary of the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts, a frightening event that shocked the nation and is also known a Black Friday. On the 20th anniversary of the dastardly attack in which 257 people were killed and 713 others injured as 12 blasts rocked Mumbai, security agencies are yet to apprehend the conspirators of the March 12, 1993, serial bomb blasts including Dawood Ibrahim. ...
11:48 PM, Mar 12, 2013
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11:58 PM, Mar 11, 2013
The main accused in the Delhi gangrape-murder case, Ram Singh, was found hanging in his Tihar Jail cell under mysterious circumstances on Monday morning, raising questions over monitoring of undertrials in the prison. The preliminary reports suggests it is a case of suicide. ...
11:53 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Ahead of International Women's Day, a CNN-IBN special investigation uncovers why despite the public outcry in the aftermath of the delhi gangrape, not enough has changed on the ground. Today's show expose the attitudes of the men in khakhi to sexual crimes. ...
11:59 PM, Mar 07, 2013
Chavez, who died on Wednesday, led Venezuela for 14 years and had easily won a new six-year term in an election in October, defeating Capriles. His folksy charisma, anti-US diatribes and oil-financed projects to improve life for residents of long-neglected slums created an unusually powerful bond with many poor Venezuelans. ...
11:57 PM, Mar 07, 2013
