Social activist Teesta Setalvad claimed on Monday that she was receiving death threats ever since the SIT report on the 2002 riots was submitted to the Gujarat court. ...
12:43 PM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: An Ahmedabad court will on Monday hear the closure report filed by the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team in the Gulbarg society massacre in the 2002 riots. It will also hear the petitions of social activists Teesta Setalvad and Mukul Sinha seeking copies of the report filed in a sealed envelope last week. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the SIT has reportedly given a clean chit to Gujarat...
07:32 AM, Feb 13, 2012
Ahmedabad: A local court will on Monday hear the closure report filed by the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT), which has reportedly given a clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi among others for their role in 2002 post-Godhra riots. The court of Metropolitan Magistrate MS Bhatt will also hear the petitions filed by social activists Teesta Setalvad and Mukul Sinha seeking copies of the report filed in...
08:37 PM, Feb 12, 2012
CNN-IBN's Sumon K Chakrabarti brings you the latest from the crisis-hit island nation. ...
11:11 PM, Feb 10, 2012
New Delhi: Deforestation in some states has remained a serious concern, according to the the Environment Ministry's India forest report. The report says India's forest cover is down by 367 square kilometre as compared to the last survey in 2009. This came despite the fact that 15 states have increased their forest cover in this period. The forest cover in 12 states has decreased considerably. The maximum loss of forest...
08:51 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: Minister of State in the PMO V Narayanasamy on Sunday accused former ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair of misleading the nation by saying he was not given a chance to explain his case before the high level panel which indicted him and three other space scientists in the Antrix-Devas deal. Narayanasamy pointed out that the committee, constituted by the Prime Minister under former Chief Vigilance Commissioner Pratyush Sinha...
10:32 PM, Feb 05, 2012
New Delhi: As many as half a billion Indians would need new homes in the country's various cities over the next decade, a requirement equivalent to all of China, North America and Western Europe put together, a report on Sunday said. The report -- 'Urban Infrastructure in India' -- prepared by industry body Ficci said the country's population is slated to grow to 1.7 billion by 2050 and rapid urbanisation...
10:45 AM, Feb 05, 2012
New Delhi: Former Indian Space Research Organisation chief Madhavan Nair on Sunday said that the ISRO report on the Antrix-Devas deal is one-sided and claimed that the report does not bring out the facts. "They have looked only at the papers and the answers to the questions. If they had seen some omissions, they should have sought clarifications. I will ask for the full report," he said while speaking exclusively...
08:41 AM, Feb 05, 2012
London: Malaria kills over 1.2 million people every year worldwide, twice as many deaths as thought earlier, while deaths from the mosquito-borne disease in India could be more than 45 times higher than what is currently estimated, a new study has claimed. Researchers at the University of Washington's Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation who collected data on malaria deaths from 1980 to 2010 found that 1.2 million people died...
05:17 PM, Feb 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Pakistani security services are directly aiding the Taliban in Afghanistan and have direct influence over its top leadership, a leaked NATO report has claimed. The report alleged that Pakistan's top spy agency Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) has complete information about whereabouts of the top Taliban commanders. The report that has been prepared from thousands of interrogations says that the Taliban have wide support among the Afghan people....
11:04 AM, Feb 01, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI will take into consideration the CAG report on National Rural Health Mission fund implementation in Uttar Pradesh which has pegged the irregularities to be around Rs 5000 crore while registering new cases in the scam. Agency sources said the detailed analysis by country's auditor will be helpful in ascertaining further losses to the exchequer. Based on the observations by Comptroller and Auditor General, the CBI will...
03:46 PM, Jan 22, 2012
New Delhi: Indicating signs of possible funds related to crime and terror trickling into the Indian casino sector, a government report has said that more than 7,000 instances of suspicious transactions have been detected in the elite gaming business during the last financial year. A total of 7,006 Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) during the 2010-11 fiscal have been reported by the casino business and allied payment operators to the Financial...
12:59 PM, Jan 22, 2012
Thodupuzha: A study by IIT Roorkie on Mullaperiyar Dam has suggested the possibility of a vast area around the 116-year-old reservoir getting submerged in flood waters within a short time if the dam collapsed in the event of a strong earthquake. Releasing the findings of the first part of the 'dam-break analysis' conducted by IIT Roorkie in Thodupuzha on Saturday, Kerala Water Resources Minister PJ Joseph said the study found...
08:33 PM, Jan 21, 2012
Tokyo: Japan's Sony Corp will transfer domestic construction of lithium ion batteries used in products like mobile phones and electric cars overseas by March 2014, as it works to overcome the strong yen, the Asahi newspaper reported on Saturday. The consumer electronics giant will move the assembling of the batteries to factories in China and Singapore, but continue producing the parts needed for production in Japan, the national daily said,...
05:35 PM, Jan 21, 2012
New Delhi: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has written a letter to the chairman of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), seeking a full report on former CWG OC Chief Suresh Kalmadi's "exact situation before the courts of justice". The letter stated: "It is our understanding that, to date, your NOC has not taken any action or measure with respect to Mr Kalmadi. We now ask you to send us a...
04:20 PM, Jan 21, 2012
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