Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Samajwadi Party's Abu Azmi gets 2-year jail term for hate speech

Samajwadi Party's Abu Azmi gets 2-year jail term for hate speech


Samajwadi Party's Abu Azmi gets 2-year jail term for hate speech

Posted: 01 May 2012 03:20 AM PDT

A local court on Monday convicted and sentenced Samajwadi Party (SP) MLA Abu Asim Azmi and four others to two years of rigorous imprisonment for allegedly delivering provocative speeches to incite com...


Maharashtra Day: Raj, Athawale offer tributes

Posted: 01 May 2012 03:16 AM PDT

Maharahtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray and Republic Party of India leader Ramdas Athawale, a key player in the Shiv Sena-BJP-RPI's mega alliance, offered tributes at the 'Hutatma Chowk' (Martyr...


Two government officials arrested in illegal mining case

Posted: 01 May 2012 02:39 AM PDT

A senior Karnataka forest official and a retired mines department official were arrested by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths in connection with the illegal mining case involving Associate...


Paternity suit: No Supreme Court relief for ND Tiwari

Posted: 01 May 2012 02:36 AM PDT

ND Tiwari paternity suit: The Supreme Court today declined to stay a Delhi High Court order directing former Congress leader ND Tiwari to provide a DNA sample in a paternity suit that has stretched ov...


Will support Pranab Mukherjee for President, says top Left source to NDTV

Posted: 01 May 2012 02:31 AM PDT

The BJP may have rejected Pranab Mukherjee for President of India, but a top source has told NDTV that the Left is willing to support the Finance Minister's candidature. The elections for the presid...


Supreme Court reserves order in Mayawati's assets case

Posted: 01 May 2012 02:23 AM PDT

The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its order on a plea by former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati in a disproportionate assets case lodged by the Central Bureau Investigation (CBI). A bench he...

Nupur Talwar's night at Dasna Jail

Posted: 01 May 2012 02:09 AM PDT

Nupur Talwar's night at Dasna Jail: Nupur Talwar, a dentist accused along with husband Rajesh of the double murder of their only child Aarushi and their domestic help Hemraj, spent Monday night at Das...


Hundreds missing after Assam boat tragedy: 10 facts

Posted: 01 May 2012 02:07 AM PDT

A storm in the Brahmaputra river in Assam's Dhubri district caused a ferry to capsize mid-stream on Monday evening. Over 100 people are feared killed in the incident. 17 bodies recovered have been so ...


Nupur Talwar stays in jail, bail verdict postponed to tomorrow

Posted: 01 May 2012 02:03 AM PDT

Nupur Talwar bail verdict tomorrow: Nupur Talwar will spend another night at the Dasna Jail near Delhi - the judge handling her request for bail has said he will share his verdict tomorrow.


Who is Nupur Talwar?

Posted: 01 May 2012 02:01 AM PDT

Eight days after her 13-year-old daughter was found murdered in the Talwars' Noida flat, dentist Nupur Talwar said in her first television interview that she would back her husband, Rajesh, "completel...


Assam boat tragedy: Search on for hundreds still missing

Posted: 01 May 2012 01:50 AM PDT

Search operations are on for more than 100 people who are still missing after a over packed steamer carrying at least 250 passengers sank in the Brahmaputra river in Assam on Monday after being caught...

Assam boat tragedy: Search on for the hundreds still missing

Posted: 01 May 2012 01:37 AM PDT

Search operations are still on for at least 100 people who have gone missing after a packed steamer carrying over 300 passengers sank in the Brahmaputra river in Assam on Monday after being caught in ...


Assam boat tragedy: Families wait in torrential rain for news of missing members

Posted: 01 May 2012 01:31 AM PDT

Hundreds of people wait at the banks of the Brahmaputra for information on their family members missing in the ferry capsize, as rescuers braving torrential rain search the river at Jaleswar for any s...

Prince Andrew pays homage at World War II cemetery in Nagaland

Posted: 01 May 2012 01:26 AM PDT

Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, today paid homage to the hundreds of soldiers of the Allied Forces who fell in the fierce battle of Kohima in 1944 in the Second World War, at the Commonwealth War Cem...


Starting today, pay more to fly from Mumbai

Posted: 01 May 2012 01:24 AM PDT

The cost of air travel from Mumbai will go up by Rs 600 for those flying to overseas destinations and by Rs 100 for domestic travellers with the addition of development fee (DF) from today. The Direct...


Pathribal case: Supreme Court asks Army to decide how to try personnel involved in fake encounters

Posted: 01 May 2012 01:12 AM PDT

The Supreme Court has given the army eight weeks to decide whether officers accused of a fake encounter in Pathribal in the state of Jammu and Kashmir should be tried by court-martial proceedings or b...


Nitish Kumar disagrees with BJP over Hamid Ansari for President

Posted: 01 May 2012 01:07 AM PDT

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is reportedly upset with his ally, the BJP, over its stand on who to support as the candidate for the presidential elections scheduled for July. Current President Pra...


Nupur Talwar bail decision after lunch; she is not in court

Posted: 01 May 2012 12:58 AM PDT

Nupur Talwar news: A judge in Ghaziabad has begun hearing Nupur Talwar's request for bail. Mrs Talwar, who is accused along with husband Rajesh of the double murder of their only child Aarushi and th...


Govt considering hike in Delhi airport charges: Tourism Ministry

Posted: 01 May 2012 12:45 AM PDT

India's Tourism Ministry has taken up with the Prime Minister's office, the issue of hike in charges by airports regulator, AERA, (Airports Economic Regulatory Authority) that has made travel costly, ...

Change of guard at Kudankulam N-plant

Posted: 01 May 2012 12:14 AM PDT

A series of top level changes due to retirement of certain officials at India's atomic power plant operator Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) has resulted in a change of guard at the ...


Rajiv Gandhi assassins' pleas moved from Chennai to Supreme Court

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 10:40 PM PDT

The Supreme Court has ruled that it will hear the petitions of three men who are challenging the death sentence given to them for their role in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi ...


Collector Alex Menon will be released within 48 hours, says Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 08:02 PM PDT

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh has said he hopes the Maoists will release Sukma District Collector Alex Paul Menon within the next 48 hours. "The mediators from the government as well as from...


For a strong Lokayukta bill, Anna Hazare begins five week campaign in Maharashtra

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 08:00 PM PDT

Anna will be on the road for five weeks and is slated to start the tour from the temple town of Shirdi. Anna is known to start all his campaigns after visiting a religious place. As of now seems th...


At least 100 killed in boat accident in Assam

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 07:16 PM PDT

In one of the worst boat tragedies in Assam, 100 people, including women and children, drowned and over 100 went missing when a packed steamer carrying over 300 passengers sank in the Brahmaputra rive...


Former Speakers may get facilities at par with former Vice Presidents

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 02:40 PM PDT

Former Lok Sabha Speakers may soon be entitled to similar facilities as the former Vice Presidents, as the Centre today moved a cabinet note to amend the law. They will however not be at par in protoc...


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