Mumbai: One accused has been arrested in the gangrape by five men of a woman intern photojournalist in Central Mumbai. The four other accused have also been identified, according to police sources. The incident took place last evening in Lower Parel area where the woman had gone for an assignment. The 23-year-old woman was working […]
New Delhi: Four Italian marines, who were witness to the killing of fishermen off Kerala coast allegedly by two of their colleagues, have refused to come to India for deposing as witness, which will further delay the case. The four marines, who were summoned by the National Investigation Agency, were onboard Italian vessel ‘Enrica Lexie’ […]
Thiruvananthapuram: The LDF will give its suggestion on Wednesday for inclusion in the terms of reference of the judicial probe ordered by the government into the solar scam. The LDF sub-committee which was constituted to hold discussions on the terms of reference met at the AKG Centre here on Tuesday and decided to give the […]
Directed by Ramesh Aravind and produced by Linguswamy, Ulaga Nayagan’s next is titled ‘Uththama Villain’. The film is expected to start rolling from next month and the crew was in frantic search of the apt heroine for the film. Kajal Aggarwal was first approached, but she could not accommodate the film in her calendar and […]
The Sensex which jumped 321 points in early trade lost its gains marginally and it was trading up by 134 points at 18,380 a short while ago. The index had lost over 1,121 points in the previous three sessions. Wide-based National Stock Exchange index Nifty recovered 50 points to 5,452. Meanwhile, in other Asian markets, […]
In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has condemned the arrest of its leader Mohammad Badie over allegations of incitement to violence and murder. A Brotherhood spokesman said the arrest was part of a plot against the 2011 revolution that ousted Hosni Mubarak. Mr Badie was detained near the site of a Cairo protest camp cleared by […]
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed hope that the Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s upcoming visit to Pakistan will help improve relations between the two countries. A press release issued by the Afghan President’s office in Kabul last night said the UN Secretary General spoke to President Karzai on phone last evening. The Afghan […]
Newdelhi: Union minister Shashi Tharoor says, at a time when major political parties are vying for a space in social media, the platform alone cannot help win elections. But it gives new options of reaching out to public. Speaking at the launch of a social networking website in New Delhi today, Mr.Tharoor said, “One cannot […]
The arrested Lashkar-e-Toiba operative Abdul Karim Tunda told Delhi Police during interrogation that Iqbal Kana, the biggest dealer of Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN), used to get the counterfeit currency notes from a Pakistani army officer. Police sources said that Kana was getting the FICN,which were being printed in Islamabad and Peshwar. Tunda told the […]
Newdelhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US President Barack Obama will chart a course seeking enhanced bilateral ties and defence cooperation between the two countries. A US official said in Washington that Dr.Singh will meet President Obama at the White House on the 27th of next month.National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon met his US counterpart […]