An appellate court has unanimously upheld the involuntary manslaughter conviction of Michael Jackson’s doctor, determining there was substantial evidence of his guilt presented at trial.The ruling on Wednesday by the California 2nd District Court of Appeal came less than three months after former cardiologist Conrad Murray was released. He served two years in jail for […]
Union Minister Shashi Tharoor was at the centre of a cross-border tweet war between his wife and a Pakistani woman journalist who have attacked each other. Sunanda Pushkar has accused the journalist Mehr Tarar of stalking her husband and trying to “break” her marriage when she was away for treatment for three to four months. […]
After a row over implementation of a expert committee report, the Centre has ruled out appointment of any more panel to study Western Ghats in an attempt to address concerns of the six states through which the ecologically-sensitive hills traverse. Environment Minister M Veerappa Moily said the states concerned should appoint committees respectively to assess […]
BJP MP Maneka Gandhi on Thursday hit out at the Gandhi family and said he is no match for the NDA’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi. She termed Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi a bird as compared to Modi, whom she described as a tiger. “Nobody can save the Congress party. Rahul has been projected by […]
The prospect of the Enrica Lexie case coming back to Kerala emerged on Monday, amid indications that the Union Home Ministry may deny sanction to prosecute the two Italian marines accused of killing two Kerala fishermen under a law which provides death penalty the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against Safety of Maritime Navigation and Fixed […]
Sherlyn Chopra and her ‘Kamasutra 3D’ director Rupesh Paul were locked in a wordy dual with the model saying she will not promote the film. Chopra, 29, slammed Paul through her expletive-filled tweets and Paul too called her names in a statement. Chopra said she barely shot for five days for the film, which became […]
With 30 days to go to before the start of the 10th edition of the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup, former stars of the tournament India’s Mohammad Kaif and Yuvraj Singh have hailed it as the best platform for budding cricketers. The U-19 World Cup is scheduled to take place across seven venues in the […]
Canadian handset major BlackBerry today said its BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 (BES 10) have been gaining a strong presence in India. Over 1,000 companies in India have either adopted or tested BES 10 since its launch last year, it said. The company has been struggling in the highly competitive smartphone market globally. […]
Playback singer G Venugopal has completed 30 years in the music industry. Venugopal started his career in the music industry by singing a Hindi song in 1984 Malayalam movie ‘Odaruthammava Aalariyam’. Venugopal hails from a family of gifted classical musicians and started learning music at an early age. Despite having faced tough competition from his […]
A 51-year-old Danish tourist was allegedly gang-raped by more than half-a-dozen men at knife point near New Delhi railway station on Tuesday night, police said. Offical sources said that the incident took place when the victim, who was returning to her hotel in Paharganj from Connaught Place, lost her way. She then approached a group […]