Friday, November 2, 2012

Food worth crores for poor children siphoned off in Maharashtra, finds Supreme Court panel

Food worth crores for poor children siphoned off in Maharashtra, finds Supreme Court panel


Food worth crores for poor children siphoned off in Maharashtra, finds Supreme Court panel

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 09:13 PM PDT

In a grim reminder of the continuing misery of the poor in India, a report by a Supreme Court panel has revealed that food worth thousands of crores meant for underprivileged children in Maharashtra h...


Thick blanket of smog engulfs Delhi as temperatures continue to dip

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 08:12 PM PDT

A thick blanket of smog (a combination of smoke and fog) enveloped Delhi this morning. Over the last four days, the national capital has been witnessing a thick fog cover perhaps indicating the onset ...


Cyclone Nilam: Body of fourth missing sailor found

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 07:20 PM PDT

Chennai: The body of yet another sailor of ship MT Pratibha Cauvery, which was grounded by cyclone Nilam, has been found near Chennai. He is one of the five crew members who went missing on Wednesday ...


1984 riots: Delhi's missing policemen

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 09:57 AM PDT

"This was a case where the police acted in a pre-planned manner and every policemen was keeping his eyes closed", the words of the public prosecutor earlier this year before a CBI court in the capita...


Delhi achieves 100 per cent cable TV digitisation

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 09:29 AM PDT

Every household which subscribes to cable TV in Delhi has switched to the set-top box. The national capital has now achieved 100 per cent digitisation.

Mumbai police hand-in-glove with Salman Khan in hit-and-run case: Cop-turned-activist YP Singh

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 07:28 AM PDT

Accusing the Mumbai police of being hand-in-glove with Bollywood actor Salman Khan in a bid to "delay" the trial of a hit-and-run case involving him, IPS officer-turned-activist Y P Singh today sought...


Gang leader arrested for mowing down Delhi police constable

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 06:35 AM PDT

Police on Friday arrested the kingpin of a cattle thieves gang who allegedly mowed down a Delhi police constable when he tried to stop the vehicle in which stolen cattle were being taken.


Thousands of contract teachers march in Patna

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 06:29 AM PDT

Thousands of teachers on contract with the Bihar government took to Patna streets on Friday, demanding the "right to equal pay for equal work", just two days ahead of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's "Ad...


Grounded ship cannot be moved out of Chennai: Madras High Court

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 05:48 AM PDT

The family of one of the sailors who died while trying to abandon a ship stranded off the coast of Chennai by cyclone Nilam has filed a petition in court alleging that the vessel was not sea-worthy an...


Bangalore garbage crisis: Karnataka High Court questions municipal authority

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 05:30 AM PDT

The Karnataka High Court has warned Bangalore's civic body, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), that it would be superseded if it finds that politics is being played while dealing with the ...


39 new dengue cases in Delhi

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 04:43 AM PDT

Thirty-nine fresh cases of dengue were reported in the capital on Friday, taking the total number to 1,096.


Three of a family electrocuted

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 04:18 AM PDT

Three members of a family were electrocuted when a high-tension wire fell near their house in Uttar Pradesh's Fatehgarh area on Friday, police said.

Two killed, one injured as woman driver loses control of car

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 03:50 AM PDT

Two persons were killed and another injured when a woman lost control of her car and ran over them, police said on Friday.


Highlights: Cop-turned-activist YP Singh's 'expose' in Salman Khan hit-and-run-case

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 03:30 AM PDT

Former cop turned activist YP Singh is holding a press meet in Mumbai to show what he says is an 'expose' on how the Mumbai police helped actor Salman Khan's hit and run case drag on for 10 years. Ac...


Girl stabbed to death in Jharkhand for making noise

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 03:07 AM PDT

A man killed a six-year-old girl and slit the throat of another child for being 'noisy' in a school campus in Jharkhand, police said on Friday.


Sex trip to Mumbai turns bloody for businessman

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 12:24 AM PDT

What a businessman thought would be a pleasure trip, turned into his worst nightmare when he and the madam he had hired were kidnapped by three middlemen who had promised them the girls. The trio late...


Woman arrested for abducting new born

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 12:20 AM PDT

A 22-year-old married woman from Mumbra was arrested for allegedly kidnapping a new born child, who was rescued later, police said on Friday.


Nooriya Haveliwala gets five-year term, will appeal in High Court

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 12:10 AM PDT

Almost two years after NRI hairstylist Nooriya Haveliwala rammed her vehicle into five persons, killing two people, the Sessions Court yesterday convicted her for culpable homicide not amounting to mu...


Foggy morning in Delhi

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 10:05 PM PDT

Delhiites woke up to a foggy Friday morning with a slight chill in the air. The minimum temperature settled a notch above the season's average at 15.9 degrees Celsius


Cyclone Nilam: Bodies of three missing sailors found, two still to be traced

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 07:30 PM PDT

The bodies of three of the five missing sailors of ship MT Pratibha Cauvery, which was grounded by cyclone Nilam, have been found.

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