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Dawood's auctioned car goes up in flames
A car which Dawood Ibrahim purportedly used, was on Wednesday set ablaze by a right wing outfit, here with a poster of the fugitive gangster pasted on its windscreen, a fortnight after the ramshackle vehicle was auctioned in Mumbai for Rs 32,000. The green Hyundai Accent sedan was burnt by Swami
Rajya Sabha passes Juvenile Justice Bill
Juveniles aged 16 years and above will now be tried under laws for adults for heinous crimes as Parliament on Tuesday passed a much-expected bill in this regard against the backdrop of a juvenile convict being released in the gangrape-cum-murder case of December 2012. The Juvenile Justice (Care a
Jet Airways bus driver dozes off, hits AI plane at Kol airport
Kolkata, Dec 22 (PTI) An Alliance Air aircraft today suffered "extensive" damage after the driver of a Jet Airways tarmac bus ferrying its crew dozed off and rammed it into the vacant stationary plane at the airport here. No injuries have been reported in the incident which occurred at
Sleeping Jet Airways Bus Driver Rams Air India Plane in 'Rs 400 Cr Crash'
KOLKATA: A Jet Airways shuttle bus driver has confessed that he dozed off and crashed into an Air India aircraft at the Kolkata airport early this morning, causing damage worth crores though no one was seriously hurt. The plane, said to be worth Rs 400 crore, was extensively damaged, says Air Ind
Don't try to scare us with lawsuits, Kejriwal tells Jaitley
NEW DELHI: Unmoved by the defamation suit filed by Arun Jaitley, Delhi chief minister and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the finance minister should not try to scare him or his party members by filing cases. "Jaitley should not try to scare us by filing cases in court. He should cooperate with t
EAM Sushma Swaraj to visit Palestine, Israel
New Delhi: Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's proposed visit to Israel next year, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will travel to Tel Aviv, besides Palestine and two other countries, in mid January. Ms Swaraj will be on a four-day, four-nation visit starting January 15, officials in
Delhi gang-rape case: Juvenile convict freed, protesters detained
NEW DELHI: Scores of protesters, including the parents of the December 16 gang rape victim, were detained by the police after they staged a protest against the release of the juvenile convict near India Gate here on Sunday. The juvenile convict in the December 16 gang rape case was released on Su
Sonia, Rahul get bail in Herald case, attack Modi
After a 10-minute hearing, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul were today granted unconditional bail in the high-voltage National Herald case by a local court where they appeared along with a phalanx of top party leaders. Facing a private criminal complaint lodged by BJP leader Subr
Indian IT companies to pay over USD 8,000 per H1B visa
Washington: Almost all Indian IT companies would pay between USD 8,000 and USD 10,000 per H-1B visa from April 1 when the next annual H-1B visa filing session starts, thus making it quite unsustainable economically for them. This is not only because of the USD 4,000 new fee imposed on Indian IT c
Don't Speak Against India, Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif Tells His Ministers: Reports
Islamabad: Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has stopped his ministers from giving anti-India statements so that the peace process is not hit, an official said. A close aide to Mr Sharif said on Friday that the ministers and senior officials had been asked not to issue any statement that coul
Allow Mobile Banking Registration at ATMs: RBI to Banks
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday asked all National Financial Switch (NFS) member banks to make changes in ATM switches by March 2016 to help customers register for mobile banking services. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has developed the mobile banking regi
Locate Geeta’s family, appeals Sushma Swaraj
A day after the Ministry of External Affairs decided to start a fresh campaign to find hearing- and speech-impaired girl Geeta’s family, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday made an appeal to locate her family. In a series of tweets about Geeta’s identification marks and location of
Juvenile could walk free on December 20
Nirbhaya's Mother Asha Devi speaks at a programme to observe the third anniversary of Nirbhaya gang-rape case as 'Nirbhaya Chetna Divas' at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. Social activist Shabana Azmi is also seen. (PTI Photo) The juvenile convict in the December 16, 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape
DDCA row: AAP poses 5 questions to Jaitley
The AAP today put "five specific" questions to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley relating to its allegations of corruption in Delhi's cricket body DDCA under his watch and accused him of giving "vague" response to the charges. Calling Jaitley a "master of half truth and beautiful lies", AAP leader As
French President Francois Hollande to be Chief Guest at Republic Day in India
President of France Francois Hollande will be the Chief Guest at the upcoming Republic Day celebrations, it was officially announced today. "We are happy that the President of France Francois Hollande has accepted our invitation to be the Chief Guest at India's 67th Republic Day celebrations on 2
Congress disrupts Parliament over Arunachal Pradesh Governor
NEW DELHI: Congress on Wednesday disrupted Parliament over Arunachal Pradesh Governor Jyoti Prashad Rajkhowa, alleging that efforts are being made to "destabilise" the party's state government, even as the Centre said an "Emergency-like situation" was being witnessed there. The party forced repea
Kejriwal demands Jaitley's ouster over alleged graft in DDCA
Escalating his attack on Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today demanded that he resign or be "removed" from the Union Cabinet to enable holding of an independent probe into alleged corruption in DDCA. Kejriwal said Jaitley's assertion that AAP's allegatio
Technician sucked into Air India plane engine in Mumbai airport, killed
Mumbai / December 17: aircraft technician with Air India was killed Wednesday at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport when he was sucked into the engine of an aircraft that was getting ready to taxi. The incident occurred as the Mumbai-Hyderabad flight AI 619 began its pushback at 8