Twenty years after a devastating series of explosions crippled India's financial capital Mumbai leaving 257 dead and over 700 injured, the Supreme Court on Thursday confirmed death penalty on Yakub Memon for conspiring and masterminding the blasts in 1993. Actor Sanjay Dutt, though cleared of terror charges, will serve five years in jail for illegally possessing AK-56 rifle and a 9 mm pistol. His sentence, however, has been reduced from ...
09:37 PM, Mar 21, 2013
The Supreme Court on Thursday sentenced Yakub Memon to death and 10 others to life imprisonment in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case. ...
06:01 PM, Mar 21, 2013
The Supreme Court delivered it's verdict in the 1993 Bombay blasts case and it's a huge setback for actor Sanjay Dutt who will have to spend three and a half years in jail. ...
02:31 PM, Mar 21, 2013
A day after the DMK pulled out of the UPA, the government scrambled to bring a consensus on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue but all efforts were in vain as the all-party meeting ended in complete disagreement. ...
11:58 PM, Mar 20, 2013
The policeman was beaten up by five Maharashtra MLAs when Kshitij Thakur moved a privilege motion against being stopped for speeding. ...
11:57 PM, Mar 20, 2013
The government's attempt to reach a consensus on the Sri Lankan resolution failed on Wednesday as party after political party opposed a country-specific resolution. ...
11:34 PM, Mar 20, 2013
The Centre is working on amendments to the US resolution on alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka and is also pushing for a resolution to be passed by the Lok Sabha. The all-party meeting called by Speaker Meira Kumar, however, failed to reach any consensus. ...
09:49 PM, Mar 20, 2013
The DMK is in no mood to reconsider its decision of withdrawing support to the government. "There is no question of reconsidering when the resolution is to be passed day after tomorrow as there are just two days left now. In no ways is India helping the Tamils," DMK leader TKS Elangovan said. With the DMK out, the government is depending on Mulayam and Mayawati and significantly, the Samajwadi Party ...
11:14 AM, Mar 20, 2013
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), the second biggest constituent of the ruling government, severed ties with the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) on Tuesday, but the move posed no immediate threat to the minority government, which said it is "stable and will continue to stay in power". The M Karunanidhi-led DMK, which, for days had been threatening to pull out from the UPA in protest against government not taking up its ...
11:58 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 withdrew support from the UPA on Tuesday over the Sri Lankan war crimes issue. ...
10:09 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 has pulled out of the UPA alliance over the Sri Lankan war crimes issue. Its five ministers at the Centre will resign. The letter is yet to be sent to President. ...
05:55 PM, Mar 19, 2013
SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav said that the DMK has still not withdrawn support from the UPA as they haven't notified the President. ...
02:50 PM, Mar 19, 2013
After DMK's decision to withdraw support to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government, the UPA Government is now reduced to minority. ...
02:38 PM, Mar 19, 2013
Subramanian Swamy said if the DMK is serious, they should write to the President that they are withdrawing support. ...
01:49 PM, Mar 19, 2013
The DMK has demanded that the UPA government should take a very strong stand on the alleged war crimes resolution against Sri Lanka and threatened to pull out its ministers from the Union Cabinet if India did not vote in favour of the US-sponsored resolution. ...
09:04 AM, 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
The talks between Congress leaders and DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Monday evening on the Sri Lankan issue failed to achieve a breakthrough. ...
10:35 PM, Mar 18, 2013
