Press Trust of India A forensic expert Friday told a court here that the fingerprints of the women executive allegedly raped by the Uber cab driver matched with the fingerprints obtained from the vehicle in which she was attacked.
Senior scientific officer in the Central Forensic Science Laboratory Harender Prasad told Additional Sessions Judge Kaveri Baweja that a few fingerprints were found in the car, inside which the woman was allegedly raped.
Alexandr Zakharchenko, leader of independence-seeking insurgents in eastern Ukraine, Friday said the rebel forces were going to step up offensive on Ukrainian positions to capture more government-controlled territories, Xinhua reported.
“We would advance the offensive through to the borders of Donetsk region, but if I see a threat anywhere else, it would be eliminated,” Zakharchenko was quoted by local media as saying during his meeting with students in Donetsk.
Amid reports of rift between the Shiromani Akali Dal and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Friday said the alliance in the state is “firm and everlasting”.
“The SAD-BJP alliance is everlasting and firm. It has always stood the test of time and both the parties should not be seen as different from each other,” Badal told reporters Friday in Sangrur district, 150 km from here.
In a major breakthrough, Himachal Pradesh Police Friday recovered antique idols stolen from a historic temple in Kullu town last month.
Additional Director General Sanjay Kundu told reporters the idol of Lord Raghunath and other idols were recovered.
He said all the idols and ornaments were recovered from the outskirts of the town, about 200 km from here. Robbers involved in the theft were yet to be arrested.
West Bengal Governor K.N. Tripathi called the youth to draw inspiration from Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose to bring out the leader in them as the state paid glowing tributes to the nationalist leader on his 118th birth anniversary Friday.
“The youth today needs to draw inspiration from Netaji and follow his ideals. They need to follow the footsteps of Netaji to bring the leaders in them,” Tripathi said while paying tribute to Bose at his ancestral house, Netaji Bhavan, here.
Leaders cutting across political lines garlanded Bose’s statue and paid tributes.
The Congress Friday asked the BJP-led government to be “transparent” while signing any agreement with the US, and said they (BJP) were now doing something which they had opposed earlier.
Addressing a press conference, Congress leader Anand Sharma “welcomed” US President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to India and said the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government must be transparent in whatever it does with the US.
“Anything being done with the US has to be within the four corners of our legal framework,” he said, cautioning the government.
With the death of Saudi King Abdullah, the ruler of the world’s largest oil exporter for almost a decade, Friday, his 79-year-old half-brother and former Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud took the pledge of allegiance as the new king.
Born December 1935, Salman is the 25th son of the Saudi kingdom’s founder Abdulaziz Al Saud who conquered his rivals and welded disparate regions of the Arabian Peninsula into a kingdom in 1932, Xinhua reported.
Two people — a woman and a police constable — were killed and more than a dozen injured in a bomb blast in a Bihar court Friday. It was not a terror attack but was aimed at helping two undertrial prisoners escape, police said.
Earlier, it was said that three people were killed but police later clarified that one of four seriously injured was mistakenly identified as dead initially due to panic.
A district police officer said a crude bomb exploded within the premises of the Ara civil court in Bhojpur district, about 60 km from the Bihar capital.
Ahead of the Feb 14 World Cup, Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) Friday restored Andy Waller as coach of its national cricket team seven months after he was dismissed from the post.
Another former national team and Under-19 coach Walter Chawaguta has been appointed fielding coach for the team during the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, reports Xinhua.
ZC board chairman Wilson Manase also announced the appointment of former captain Alistair Campbell as managing director of ZC’s cricket affairs.
The PDP Friday named two candidates for the Rajya Sabha elections in Jammu and Kashmir scheduled to be held Feb 7.
Nazir Ahmed Laway and Fayaz Ahmed are the two candidates, Peoples Democratic Party chief spokesman Naeem Akhtar said here Friday.
Both the candidates had lost last year’s assembly elections.
Laway was defeated by Muhammad Yousuf Tarigami of the Communist Party of India-Marxist from Kulgam assembly seat and Fayaz Ahmed was defeated from Kupwara seat by Bashir Ahmad of the People’s Conference.
D-Link Corporation, a Taiwanese multinational networking equipment manufacturing company, plans to set up an office here that will generate 1,000 jobs.
Telangana’s Information Technology Minister K. Tarakarama Rao told reporters Friday that the company’s president A.P. Chen was here recently and he conveyed that they want to set up 1,000 employee offices.
The minister said he might visit Taiwan to hold further talks with D-Link officials.
Actress Evelyn Sharma says she had bagged the lead role in Tamil magnum opus “I” but language barrier discouraged her from taking it up.
New release “I“, starring Vikram and Amy Jackson, was once offered to Evelyn.
“Yes, it is true that I had auditioned and had bagged the lead, however language barrier made me withdraw from the project. This film came to me even before I did my first film ‘From Sydney with Love’,” Evelyn said in a statement.
Rapper LL Cool J, who will return as a host of Grammy Awards this year, says that he bought 10 luxury cars after he came into limelight.
The 47-year-old came into the spotlight as a rapper when he was a teenager in the 1980s, and says he splurged on himself and his family after he got a big pay cheque, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
“When I started out I bought my mother a house and had 10 or 12 cars – BMWs, Benzes, Porsches,” Metro newspaper quoted him as saying.
Representatives of leading US companies Friday held discussions with officials here to create a roadmap for developing Visakhapatnam into a smart city.
The discussions were held at a roundtable on smart cities organised by the US-India Business Council (USBIC) to advance the goal of developing this coastal city as a smart city as articulated in the joint statement between US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in September last year.
Ahead of US President Barack Obama’s visit, India and the US Friday agreed to cooperate in the field of Information & Communications Technology and Electronics (ICTE) to facilitate, among others, the ambitious ‘Digital India’ programme aimed at transforming India into a digital-empowered society and knowledge economy.
The relevant Joint Declaration of Intent for cooperation in the field of Information & Communications Technology and Electronics (ICTE) was signed by Secretary in the Department of Electronics and IT R.S. Sharma, and US Ambassador to India Richard Verma.
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Actor Arjun Rampal remembers the deaths of some legends and tagged Friday as the “day of remembrance”.
Jan 23 marks the 118th birth anniversary of freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and the 88th birth anniversary of Shiv Sena founder-patriarch Bal Thackeray.
And the world also lost some legends from different fields on this day. Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz died of complications from pneumonia early Friday. Hollywood actor Heath Ledger, known for his portrayal as fictional character Joker in the movie “The Dark Knight” also died Jan 22.
Ranbir Kapoor-starrer “Jagga Jasoos”, which was to hit the screens in August, will now release in November this year.
The Anurag Basu-directorial was to release on Aug 28, but now it has been pushed to Nov 27.
“We have decided to release ‘Jagga Jasoos’ on Nov 27 as we all felt that it is the best time for the movie. We were looking for a date that is good for the global release for the movie,” Amrita Pandey, vice president and Head of Marketing and Distribution, Studios, Disney India, said in a statement.
Karnataka’s former BJP minister and mining baron G. Janardhana Reddy walked out of the central jail here Friday after three years and four months on conditional bail.
The Supreme Court granted Reddy conditional bail Tuesday in graft cases related to the multi-crore mining scam in Andhra Pradesh and his home state.
“Reddy was freed from the jail after his lawyers produced the CBI court order and furnished two sureties of Rs.10 lakh each, as stipulated by the apex court for his conditional bail,” a jail official told reporters later.
The Indian Railways will have to pay compensation to passengers for any untoward incident during their journey, including death due to cardiac arrest while running along the moving train leaving the platform.
The Supreme Court, dealing with a case, declined the Centre’s plea challenging the Madras High Court award of compensation of Rs.4 lakh to the widow and children of Durai Somnathan, who had died of cardiac arrest while running along the moving train from which his wife and daughter could not get down.
Australia rode on stand-in skipper Steven Smith’s unbeaten 102 to chase down a 304-run target set by England with three wickets to spare, registering their third successive win in the One-Day International (ODI) tri-series at the Blundstone Arena here Friday.
Opener Ian Bell’s 141 propelled England to 303 for eight. But the home side depended on the 25-year-old Smith, who recorded his third ODI century. Australia received good contributions from Aaron Finch (32), Shaun Marsh (45), Glenn Maxwell (37), James Faulkner (35) and vice-captain Brad Haddin (42).
Bollywood’s latest offering “Baby” has been banned in Pakistan, owing to its controversial content and Pakistani nationals being portrayed as terrorists on a wider canvas.
According to the Dawn, a representative of the film’s distributor, Everready Pictures shared the news about the film being banned in Karachi and Islamabad.
“Censor boards in Islamabad and Karachi have decided to ban the film because it portrays a negative image of Muslims and the negative characters in the film also have Muslim names,” the Dawn said.
The Ukrainian government has partially withdrawn troops from Donetsk airport after months of bitter fighting with independence-seeking insurgents, a defence ministry statement said Thursday.
“Yesterday, 20 troops of the Ukrainian armed forces left the terminals of the airport because their positions were destroyed and exposed to direct fire,” Xinhua quoted the statement as saying.
The day-light gunning down of a notorious gangster by a rival gang while he was being escorted by a Punjab Police team in the state’s Phagwara town, has led to disciplinary action against senior police officials.
Taking a serious view of the security lapses leading to the killing of Sukha Kahlwan in police custody, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal Thursday ordered transfer of Kapurthala’s Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Dhanpreet Kaur and Phagwara’s Superintendent of Police (SP) Gursewak Singh with immediate effect.
Bharat Forge is keen to invest in Andhra Pradesh in defence technologies, renewable energy and automobile forging, the company’s chairman Baba N. Kalyani said as he met the state’s Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu in Davos.
Naidu, who is in Davos to attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) summit, met some top business leaders. He told them about single-desk initiative of his government and assured of industrial approvals within 21 days.