Ahmedabad: Survivors and the kin of those who died in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts have welcomed the court’s decision. The special court here Friday sentenced to the death 38 of the 49 convicts. The 11 others were handed life imprisonment till death. the...
Ahmedabad: A special court here Friday awarded death sentence to 38 convicts in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts case, which had claimed 56 lives and left over 200 injured. Special court judge A R Patel also sentenced 11 other convicts in the case to life...
United Nations: As tensions rose feverishly around Ukraine, while the US and Russia clashed at the UN Security Council, India has said that that is in contact with the parties in the Kiev crisis and reiterated its call for a diplomatic dialogue to de-escalate the...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday set aside the Punjab and Haryana High Court order, which stayed the Haryana law providing 75 per cent reservation in industries to youngsters with domicile of the state. A bench headed by Justice L. Nageswara Rao set aside the high...
Bhubaneswar: Odisha recorded 70 per cent voter turnout in the first phase of the panchayat elections Wednesday amid sporadic incidents of violence, officials said. Polling was held in the first phase for 200 Zilla Parishad constituencies, 22,379 ward member seats, 1,669 Sarpanch posts and as...
Mumbai: Singer-composer Bappi Lahiri, famous for his disco beats in Hindi films of the 70s and 80s and also some soulful crooning, has died following multiple health issues. He was 69. Lahiri died Tuesday night at the CritiCare Hospital in Juhu. "Lahiri had been admitted...
Bhubaneswar: In a surprising twist to the mysterious disappearance of four engineering students from the city, their parents Tuesday informed Commissionerate Police that they have been picked up by Sambalpur police personnel in a cyber fraud case. The parents of the missing students had filed...
Bangalore: The Muslim girls who have moved the Karnataka High Court against a ban on hijab argued Tuesday that the Indian brand of secularism was a ‘positive’ one. They submitted that wearing the headscarf was an innocent practice of faith and not a display of...
Ranchi: A special CBI court Tuesday convicted Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo and former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad in the Rs 139.5 crore Doranda treasury embezzlement case. The quantum of punishment will be pronounced February 18, a CBI counsel said. Read also - Karnataka...
Mumbai: Making a strong case for banning cryptocurrencies, Reserve Bank Deputy Governor T Rabi Sankar said Monday they are even worse than Ponzi schemes. He asserted that cryptocurrencies threaten the financial sovereignty of a country. Rabi Sankar observed that crypto-technology is underpinned by a philosophy...
The Director General of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Shatrujeet Kapur’s remark on 22 October that Indian and Chinese forces are...
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By Aakar Patel Next week, on 3 November, America will have its midterm election. It is so called because it...
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By Dilip Cherian Five extensions in three months, including those of Cabinet Secretary T.V. Somanathan and Home Secretary Govind Mohan,...
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United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s second visit to India has ruffled quite a few feathers in New Delhi....
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