A Chetak helicopter of the Army today crashed in a residential area here killing two officers but there was no casualty on the ground.
The helicopter, which on a routine sortie had takenoff from Gandhinagar for Army Aviation Training School here,crashed after hitting a bungalow in Jachak Nagar area at 0855hours, army and police officials [...]
Former telecom minister A Raja and at least seven bureaucrats have been reportedly named in the report submitted by a former judge who investigated allotment of telecom licences for 2G spectrum. Siddhartha Behura, former secretary of the department of telecom, and seven other officials of DoT have been named in former Supreme Court judge [...]
Read More... Good news for the beleaguered BJP government in Karnataka. A commission set up to investigate a series of attacks on churches in 2008 has said neither the government nor the police can be faulted.
“There is no basis to the apprehension of Christian petitioners that the politicians, BJP, mainstream Sangh Parivar and state government directly [...]
Prominent Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband’s new head Maulana Ghulam Mohammed Vastanvi, who had recently praised development works in Gujarat, has said that Chief Minister Narendra Modi cannot be be given a “clean chit” in the 2002 riots. “Those who were involved in Gujarat riots should be punished,” the cleric told mediapersons at the [...]
Read More... Putting an end to all the speculation about John Abraham and Bipasha Basu’s break-up, the actress finally posted on her micro-blogging site twitter, “Hi all! Speculation is a part of our business! I know the warmth and love that I get from you all! Everything is fine with John n me:) Thank you! (sic).”
The [...]
Even as the full scope of the tragedy that befell Sabarimala pilgrims at Pulmedu near Vandiperiyar in Kerala’s Idukki district on Friday night was yet to be known, the death toll in the stampede there rose to 102 on Saturday morning.
Of these 54, have been identified. There are at least five children among the [...]
Observing that it cannot allow the Republic to kill its “own children”, the Supreme Court on Friday sought an “anwser” from the Centre and Andhra Pradesh government on the killings of top Maoist leader Azad and journalist Hemchandra Pandey in an alleged fake encounter.
“We cannot allow the Republic killing its own children,” a bench [...]
The government may announce some measures that could bring down food inflation further, official sources indicated Thursday, a day after Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee met Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and other senior government officials to finalise action on the issue.
Wednesday’s discussions were a follow-up to the meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The [...]
The CBI special court in Ghaziabad registered on Monday the investigating agency’s closure report in the sensational murder case of teenager Aarushi Talwar.
Hearing the case, Special Judicial Magistrate (CBI) Preeti Singh gave time to the investigating officer to submit the annexures to the closure report.
The court is now expected to decide whether the case [...]