New Delhi, The Delhi government on Thursday decided to run 6,000 more buses to shore up the public transport to dispel the fear of it collapsing in the face of 15-day traffic rationing which kicks in from January 1. However, the Supreme Court observed that a multi-pronged policy rather than ad hoc steps was needed […]
Mumbai, A court here accepted on Thursday the request of Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist David Coleman Headley, currently imprisoned in the US, to turn approver and depose in the 26/11 case in return for a pardon. Headley, who appeared before a court through a video-conferencing from an unidentified location in the US, during the hearing expressed […]
Kolkata, Nearly nine months after her death, the Anglo-Indian woman gang-raped on Kolkata’s Park Street in 2012 finally got justice on Thursday with a court pronouncing guilty all three accused who were on trial in the sensational case. The woman — then 40 years old, a divorcee and mother of two — was beaten up […]
Mumbai, Bollywood megastar Salman Khan was acquitted on Thursday by the Bombay High Court of all charges in the 2002 accident that killed a pavement dweller. After the verdict, Salman wiped away tears of relief as his overjoyed family flanked him. Delivering the much-awaited verdict in a courtroom packed with journalists, Bollywood personalities and lawyers, […]
Chennai, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to declare as a national calamity the floods that has hit many districts, and also suggested schemes for the central government to formulate to assist the affected families. In a letter to Modi, the text of which was released to the […]
Islamabad, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Pakistan next year, the first such visit by the head of the Indian government in over a decade, Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said here on Wednesday. Modi will participate in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) summit, Sushma Swaraj told the media. This […]
Mumbai, The Bombay High Court on Tuesday pointed out several lacunae in the procedures for checking presence of alcohol in the blood samples of Bollywood megastar Salman Khan after the September 2002 hit-and-run case involving him. Justice A. R. Joshi, dictating his judgement in open court in the appeal filed by the actor against his […]
Palwal (Haryana), The driver of a local train was killed and several others were injured when the EMU shuttle train rammed into a stationary train from behind in Haryana’s Palwal district on Tuesday morning in foggy conditions, police officials said. The accident took place near village Baghola in Palwal district, about 60 km from New […]
New Delhi, In a change from its earlier plan, the Delhi government on Tuesday said private vehicles with odd and even registration numbers will ply on odd and even dates respectively from January 1. “It will be date-wise,” Transport Minister Gopal Rai said, days after the government said odd numbered vehicles would ply on Mondays, […]
Srinagar, Srinagar witnessed a chilly Tuesday morning as a feeble winter sun struggled to break through the clouds. The weather office forecast rain at some places in Jammu and Kashmir for three days from Wednesday evening onwards. “We are expecting a mainly dry weather; however, there may be isolated rain at some places in in […]