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Bangalore: Largely keeping away ‘tainted MLAs, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday expanded his Ministry with the induction of 28 Ministers. But the exercise — five days after he was sworn-in alone — has set off dissatisfaction among a section of Congress legislators who failed to...
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh maintained today that party President Sonia Gandhi has not interfered in the functioning of the government even once and that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was the ‘power centre in governance.’ Singh made this remark while seeking to clarify the...
Controversial former RJD MP Pappu Yadav was today acquitted by the Patna High Court in CPI(M) leader Ajit Sarkar murder case for want of evidence. A division bench comprising justices VN Singh and KK Lal set aside the February 2008 conviction of Yadav and two other...
New Delhi: Promiscuous character of a woman is irrelevant in rape cases and a rapist cannot take it as ground of defence for his heinous act, the Supreme Court has ruled saying even a female of easy virtue has a right to life. Holding that rape is not...
London: Finance Minister P Chidambaram has said the Group of Ministers(GoM) headed by him will work towards giving CBI ‘functional autonomy’ but at the same time asserted that accountability is ‘important’. Chidambaram’s comments yesterday came three days after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh approved the constitution of...
Allahabad: The Allahabad High Court on Friday reserved its judgement on a petition of dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, accused of killing their daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj, seeking summoning of 14 witnesses and recording their statements in trial court. Justice Rajesh Dayal Khare...
Mumbai: Lodged in an egg-shaped high-security ‘Anda’ cell, actor Sanjay Dutt is feeling ‘suffocated’ in its confines, which are generally used to house terror suspects and hardcore criminals, and pleaded a TADA court today to shift him to another cell as he is not a terrorist....
At the height of the drama last week over the resignation of Law Minister Ashwani Kumar and Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, the media was abuzz with reports, evidently planted by sections within the Congress, suggesting that the credit for the resignations ought to go to...
Kolkata: A class three student of a primary school in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district died on Friday, days after he was mercilessly thrashed by his teacher who allegedly beat him with a stick before banging his head against a wall. Ten-year-old Bapi Joardar, a student...
New Delhi: Facing flak for several goof ups, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Friday expressed disappointment over people misunderstanding him over his comments and said a ‘wrong impression’ is being created. Referring to a recent incident, where the minister had expressed his desire to bring in...
