A court in Rajasthan’s Jodhpur framed charges against spiritual guru Asaram Bapu, over five months after he was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor girl, a lawyer said. Pradeep Choudhary, one of the lawyers representing Asaram, said the court of district and sessions judge, Jodhpur (rural) has dropped section 26 of Juvenile Justice Act, […]
Dismissing allegations of involvement of her Trinamool Congress in “horse-trading of MLAs (legislators)”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday said she would welcome members of opposition who voted for her party in the Rajya Sabha polls. “This doesn’t happen in Bengal…Trinamool is the only party that is very transparent…we are the poorest of the […]
The Supreme Court Friday granted bail to alleged Maoist conduit Soni Sori and her nephew Lingaram Kodopi but asked them to stay in Delhi and report to a police station once a week. Both are also barred from entering Chhattisgarh. However, the court said that both Sori and Kodopi would be escorted to Chhattisgarh by […]
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court Friday turned down a plea by Shabir Ahmad Khan — accused by a woman doctor of trying to sexually assault her — to move for bail in Jammu instead of Srinagar. Khan, who resigned Friday from the post of minister of state for health, has been accused by a […]
President Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate the National Agricultural Expo “Krishi Vasant” in Nagpur Sunday during his two-day visit to Maharashtra, starting Feb 8. Over 500,000 farmers from all over India will take part in the five-day long agro fair-cum-expo organised jointly by the union ministry of agriculture, Maharashtra government and the Confederation of Indian Industry […]
A total of 35 rounds of bidding were completed at the end of Day 5 Friday of the second generation (2G) spectrum or airwaves auction, an official statement said here. The government has received cumulative bids worth Rs.54,600 crore so far. “The government received cumulative bids worth Rs.54,600 crore at the end of the fifth […]
Delhi’s AAP government and the Congress, which props it up, Friday seemed headed for a showdown over the Jan Lokpal bill, with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal saying the central government’s okay was not needed to get it passed in the Delhi assembly. The Congress reiterated that it would not support the bill as it was […]
Brushing aside opposition from some Congress ministers from Andhra Pradesh, the union cabinet Friday gave its nod to a bill to form a Telangana state even as parliament was plunged into chaos for a third straight day. The approval for the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Bill came at a two-hour cabinet meeting held at Prime Minister […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Friday promised an annual fare revision as well as training on how to behave with commuters to the tens of thousands of auto drivers, considered his vote bank, at a mass meeting on the outskirts of the capital. Addressing a mahasabha of thousands of auto drivers as well as of […]
T. Subbarami Reddy, K. V. P. Ramachandra Rao and K. Keshava Rao are among six leaders elected to Rajya Sabha from Andhra Pradesh in the elections held Friday. Subbarami Reddy, Ramachandra Rao and M.A. Khan of the Congress, T. Sitarama Lakshmi and G. Mohan Rao of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Keshava Rao of Telangana […]