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Cash for vote: Four legislators booked in Jharkhand

Ranchi, Aug 6 (IANS) The Jharkhand vigilance bureau has lodged a First Information Report (FIR) against four legislators after a news channel telecast a sting operation showing them ready to sell their votes in the Rajya Sabha elections in June. ‘An FIR was lodged Thursday night against four legislators,’ M.V. Rao, inspector general of Jharkhand [...]

High Court dismisses Sajjan Kumar”s plea in 1984 riots case

New Delhi, July 19 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar”s petition challenging a trial court”s order to frame charges against him in 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. In the order, Justice Vipin Sanghi questioned the motive of the Delhi Police in cancelling the FIR against Kumar when the matter [...]

Presence of Indian magistrate in Kasab case must for 26/11 trial to proceed: Malik

Islamabad, July 18 (ANI): Pakistan has once again demanded that the Indian magistrate who recorded the statements of Ajmal Amir Kasab, the convicted 26/11 Mumbai attack gunman, should appear before the anti-terror court hearing the terror attacks case. Talking to reporters here, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said India must allow the official to present Kasab’s [...]

Pak asks India to send officials who recorded Kasab’s statements to testify

Islamabad, July 14 (ANI): Pakistan has asked India to send the police officials and the magistrate who had recorded the statements of lone surviving 26/11 gunman Ajmal Amir Kasab to testify his records. According to reports, Interior Minister Rehman Malik met Indian High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal here and put forth the demand of sending the [...]

Pak ‘Kari’ woman publicly thrashed, threatened with death by husband, brother

Karachi, July 11 (ANI): In an incident which reveals the deplorable plight of females in Pakistan, a woman, who was declared a ‘Kari’ by her husband, was publicly thrashed and threatened to be killed by her brother and spouse in Larkana, Sindh. According to reports, Hafeezan Bhutto, 30, was forcibly taken into a vehicle by [...]

Congress files case against Mamata”s men

Kolkata, July 13 (ANI): The Congress party has hit back at the TMC by filing an FIR against its workers after they attacked a Congress-led delegation in West Bengal. Around 100 armed Trinamool workers forcibly stopped a party of All India Youth Congress Seva Dal and manhandled some members in Khejuri area of West Midnapore. [...]

Omar Abdullah ensures amicable resolution to ”News X” controversy

New Delhi, July 11 (ANI): Over reports from Jammu and Kashmir of a case being filed against English channel ”News X” for waging war against the State, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has assured CNN-IBN editor-in-chief and Guild President Rajdeep Sardesai that he would intervene and ensure that the matter is settled amicably and no action [...]

Bhopal gas tragedy: US hopes judgment won”t affect ties with India

Washington, June 8 (ANI): The United States has expressed the hope that the Bhopal gas tragedy verdict would not hamper growing ties with India. Reacting to the Bhopal gas verdict, US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, Robert Blake said: “I don”t expect this verdict to reopen any new inquiries or anything [...]

Teenager dies after being set ablaze by molester

Malegaon (Maharashtra), May 29 (IANS) A 16-year-old girl was set ablaze by a man who tried to molest her in Deoghat village of Malegaon district. The girl died in hospital, police said Saturday. The accused, Samadhan Khairnar, had barged into the girl’s house when she was alone and tried to molest her before he set [...]

Railways files case on Gyaneshwari Express mishap

Kolkata, May 29 (ANI): The Railways has filed a First Information Report (FIR) in connection with Friday’s Gyaneshwari Express mishap in West Bengal’s Jhargram in West Midnapore District, which killed over 68 people. The case was filed by the train driver against unknown people. The complaint, however, made no mention of Maoists. The diver claimed [...]

Day after, Italians flown to Delhi ‘to join probe’

The three Italian nationals, who were detained at Pune and Mumbai airports for concealing a cache of live rounds of cartridges in their five-star hotel room in Delhi, have been flown back to the Capital “to join the investigations”. Police said the three have not been formally booked yet and are being questioned at the [...]

Pak Intel agencies confirm authenticity of Hamid Mir’s conversation with Taliban

Lahore, May 20 (ANI): Reports of various intelligence agencies, including the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), over the alleged audiotape featuring a conversation between Geo News Executive Editor Hamid Mir and a Taliban spokesman, have confirmed the authenticity of the tape. According to a television channel, the intelligence agencies have submitted their report to Prime Minister [...]

Nirupama Pathak”s post-mortem report indicates murder: Jharkhand DGP

Ranchi (Jharkhand), May 13 (ANI): Jharkhand Director General of Police (DGP) Neyaz Ahmed on Thursday said that the post-mortem report and initial investigation of the murder of Delhi based journalist Nirupama Pathak indicates murder. “The post-mortem report indicates murder and we are investigating on the same lines. We won”t work under anyone”s influence. We have [...]

‘All powerful’ Rehman Malik in whitewash mode to quash cases against him

Islamabad, May 12 (ANI): Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has been accused of tampering with cases filed against him and for targeting officers who are not ready to toe his line. The official record of the 1996 cases against Malik has started to disappear and FIA officials who arrested and handled him back in 1996 [...]

Nirupama Pathak”s clothes to undergo forensic tests in Ranchi

Ranchi, May 11 (ANI): The clothes of Delhi-based journalist Nirupama Pathak, who was found dead in mysterious circumstances at her home in Jharkhand”s Koderma District on April 29, have been sent for forensic tests to Ranchi. Meanwhile, Nirupama”s boyfriend Priyabhanshu Ranjan”s family has demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry into her death. On [...]

Opposition parties ask Hooda to drop Haryana Home Minister

Chandigarh, Apr 5 (ANI): Opposition parties in Haryana on Monday asked Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda to drop Home Minister Gopal Kanda from the cabinet for ordering firing on agitating activists. On Sunday, Kanda allegedly ordered his security men to open fire on agitating Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) activists, who stopped his convoy at [...]

Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja’s bail plea deferred to July 7

Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja‘s bail plea was on Friday deferred till July 7 by a local Mumbai court. Ahuja was arrested on June 15 after his domestic help accused him of raping her while they were alone at his house. Despite the actor’s wife denying the incident, police officials said DNA and medical reports of [...]