New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) Delhi Police Wednesday filed a chargesheet in a court here against a cab driver of the Uber taxi company who was accused of raping a 27-year-old working woman in the capital. Police filed the chargesheet against Shiv Kumar Yadav before Metropolitan Magistrate Ajay Kumar Malik on charges of rape, abduction, […]
New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) Home ministry officials would visit and hold camps in various districts for minority communities facing problems in grant of citizenship and long term visa (LTV), the government said Tuesday. “The teams of officials will visit 24 identified districts for citizenship in eight states and 14 districts for LTV cases of […]
New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) The results of the assembly polls Tuesday were broadly in line with the predictions made by most exit polls, with the BJP and its allies getting full majority in Jharkhand, and a hung verdict in Jammu and Kashmir. The ABP-Nielsen, CVoter, ITG-Cicero and Chanakya exit polls had predicted that the […]
Chennai, Dec 23 (IANS) Legendary Tamil movie and drama director, screen writer and producer K. Balachander – who was instrumental in bringing talents like Kamal Haasan, Rajinikanth and Prakash Raj to the film industry – passed away here Tuesday, his manager said. He was 84. Balachander was ailing for some time and was admitted to […]
New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Tuesday quashed summons issued by a trial court against Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s former aide Vincent George in acorruption case. Justice V.P. Vaish allowed the plea of George who had moved the high court seeking quashing the summons issued against him July 18, 2013. In an […]
Panaji, Dec 23 (IANS) Goa Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar Tuesday promised free passes as well as authority to journalists to snoop around music festival venues for drug use, and said police were not able to tackle the drug mafia in the state. Addressing a press conference, Parulekar said he had no way of knowing the […]
New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) The Congress Tuesday said it is disappointed with its showing in Jharkhand but the results in Jammu and Kashmir are better than predicted by opinion polls. Party spokesperson Ajoy Kumar also said they were “open” to supporting the Peoples Democratic Party in Jammu and Kashmir. “The results in Jammu and […]
Chandigarh, Dec 22 (IANS) Cold weather and thick fog affected normal life in most parts of Punjab and Haryana Monday. Officials said the fog hit air, rail and road traffic in the region. But there was some relief during the day as parts of Chandigarh, Punjab and Haryana saw mild sunshine for a couple of […]
New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) The government Monday said the non-aeronautical revenue of state-run Airports Authority of India has increased 52 percent in three years from Rs.819.10 crore in 2010-11 to Rs.1,241 crore in 2013-14. Minister of State for Civil Aviation Mahesh Sharma informed the Lok Sabha that the non-aeronautical revenue of AAI increased by […]
New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) It was the coldest Dec 22 in five years in the national capital, with the minimum temperature dipping four notches below average to 4.2 degrees Celsius. Dense fog affected the movement of nearly 100 flights and over 150 trains. The Met department has forecast a clear Tuesday. A cold wave […]