Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Delhi gang-rape case: High Court order on police's status report today

Delhi gang-rape case: High Court order on police's status report today


Delhi gang-rape case: High Court order on police's status report today

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 07:10 PM PST

The Delhi High Court will today pass an order on the status report filed by the Delhi Police yesterday in connection with the gang-rape of 23-year-old 'Amanat' (NOT her real name) on a moving bus in t...


I hope my son is alive, says father of Indian student who went missing in Manchester

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 07:02 PM PST

The father of an Indian student who went missing on New Year's eve from a nightclub in Manchester appealed to the governments in the UK, India and people to come forward and help him find his son.


Nearly 60 are injured in ferry crash in Lower Manhattan

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 06:38 PM PST

One by one, the passengers shuffled toward the exits - bags in hand, music in their ears - gathering in a neat crowd to step off their New Jersey commuter ferry and into the frosty Lower Manhattan mor...


'Amanat' case: why video-conference trial may be considered

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 06:08 PM PST

Today, the five men accused of murdering and raping a medical student on a bus in Delhi are meant to be brought from Tihar Jail to a South Delhi court.


India pieces together details of Pakistan's grim attack on jawans

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 12:35 PM PST

Sources say that India, which was prepared for Pakistan's denial, has pieced together the grim details of the audacious attack on Indian territory.


Dozens injured in ferry accident in lower Manhattan

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 12:14 PM PST

A ferry crashed as it was docking in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday morning, injuring several dozen passengers, according to fire officials.


India asks Pak to probe 'barbaric and inhuman mutilation' of jawans

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 10:54 AM PST

India summoned the Pakistani High Commissioner in Delhi this morning over yesterday's attack in Kashmir, in which Pakistani troops crossed the Line of Control and killed two soldiers; one was beheaded...


'Death is inevitable for all of us,' martyr Sudhakar Singh often told his father

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 10:47 AM PST

The 30-year-old father of a 4-month-old baby boy had served in the Indian army for 11 years.


Train fare hike across the board starting midnight January 21

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 10:35 AM PST

Train fares will be increased by 10 to 20 per cent from midnight January 21, said Railways minister Pawan Kumar Bansal. The price of train tickets had not been increased for a decade, he said. The min...


Commuter ferry crash in New York injures 57, one critical

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 09:01 AM PST

A commuter ferry crashed into a pier in lower Manhattan early on Wednesday, injuring 57 people, one critically, the New York City Police Department said.


Woman home guard molested on Delhi bus, attacker beaten up

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 08:11 AM PST

A 25-year-old woman home guard was molested inside a Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) bus in New Delhi on Wednesday, police said. The accused was thrashed by a mob, hospitalised and later booked.


Supreme Court dismisses Sahara's review petition

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 06:45 AM PST

The Supreme Court has dismissed Sahara group's plea seeking review of its August 31 verdict to refund over Rs. 17,400 crore collected from 2.21 crore depositors. Two Sahara group firms - S...


Abducted Sikh beheaded by militants in Pakistan tribal belt

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 06:14 AM PST

A 40-year-old Sikh man, abducted over a month ago by a militant group in Pakistan's restive tribal region for allegedly spying for a rival outfit, has been found beheaded.


Three children killed, two injured in blast in Assam

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 06:07 AM PST

Three school children were killed and another two injured in an explosion in Digboi in Assam today, according to initial reports. Assam Home Secretary GD Tripathy said a schoolboy was killed on the sp...


Delhi buses to have CCTV, web cameras installed by February 1

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 06:03 AM PST

Government has ordered that no school in Delhi will hire any transport vehicle of any kind without police verification of its owner and the crew.

France honours Malala Yousafzai, father says Taliban have lost fight

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 05:49 AM PST

The Taliban must accept peace talks as their mission has failed, the father of Malala Yousafzai said on Wednesday, accepting a key French award for the Pakistani schoolgirl shot for campaigning for gi...

A Facebook phone? What's prompting the talk

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 05:47 AM PST

Facebook has circulated a rather mysterious invite amongst the media fraternity asking all to join the social network at its headquarters in Menlo Park, CA on Tuesday January 15 at 10 a.m. PT. The...

Akbaruddin Owaisi's plea to be moved to Hyderabad jail rejected

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 05:35 AM PST

Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) leader Akbaruddin Owaisi will spend the next two weeks in Adilabad jail in Andhra Pradesh. His petition seeking transfer to a Hyderabad jail on medical grounds was r...


World's first subway marks 150 years in operation

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 05:19 AM PST

Busy, congested, stressful. This is how the world's first subway system was depicted by London newspapers in 1863. It's a situation that would be familiar to nail-biting passengers of the present as t...


'Amanat' case: why isn't Delhi's top cop accountable, asks High Court

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 04:01 AM PST

The Delhi High Court today asked the capital's police force why its top officer is not being held accountable for the barbarous gang-rape of a student on a moving bus in Delhi last month. She died nea...


India asks Pakistan to probe 'barbaric and inhuman mutilation' of jawans

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 03:46 AM PST

After two jawans were killed by Pakistani troops who crossed the Line of Control in Kashmir yesterday, sources say the Indian government wants Pakistan to commission an inquiry into the "barbaric and...


Change your Pakistan policy, says Arun Jaitley to Prime Minister: highlights

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 03:31 AM PST

BJP's Arun Jaitley condemned yesterday's attack in which Pakistani troops crossed over the Line of Control in Kashmir and killed two jawans. One of the bodies was found decapitated.


A mother's battle for her children, begun in Norway, stretches in India

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 02:50 AM PST

The Calcutta High Court today ruled that the two siblings brought from Norway after a raging custody battle last year could stay with their mother tonight. The final order would be passed tomorrow.


Don't go to war, says Pakistani daily

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 02:29 AM PST

Amid escalating tensions on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, a Pakistani newspaper has urged Pakistan and India not to let the events turn into a war.


Train fare hike across the board starting midnight January 21

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 02:23 AM PST

Train fares will be increased from midnight January 21, said Railways minister Pawan Kumar Bansal. The price of train tickets had not been increased for a decade, he said. The minister said the far...


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