wajid New Delhi,January 29 :A CITY court on Saturday sentenced five men to life imprisonment for raping a mentally challenged 17- year- old girl for three days. Additional sessions judge Kamini Lau, terming the rapists “ inhuman” and “ barbaric”, observed they had given a “ lifelong trauma” to the victim and her family.
Mumbai,January 29:Sharad Pawar plays arms twisting game against Congress as latest surveys predict congress loss in assembly elections.Having lost not even one election in the 45 years of his political career so far, union minister and veteran politician Sharad Pawar has said he wants to bid adieu to politics to make way for the younger generation.
“It’s enough…It is the responsibility of people like me to encourage younger people and younger leadership to continue to work in (his) political party,” Pawar, the union agriculture minister, said in a TV interview.
New Delhi, January 29 :Falak was found fourdays ago in New delhi battered and abondaned is still struggling for survival.The condition of the battered two-year-old baby in Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Center, AIIMS, is critical but stable. But doctors say there is a high chance that she may remain in a vegetative state even if she survives.
“The child’s condition is the same as it was on Friday. She is stable but critical. It has been a day since she was taken off the ventilator,” said Dr Deepak Aggarwal, associate professor, Neurosurgery, JPNATC.
Hyderabad, January 28 : Stepping up its probe into the Emaar-APIIC township case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Saturday arrested a top executive of Emaar Hill Township Private Limited (EHTPL).
G.G.V. Vijay Raghav, chief financial officer, EHTPL, was produced before a court, which sent him to judicial custody till Jan 30. He was shifted to Chanchalguda Central Jail
NEW YORK, January 28: Gold provided the best returns of all commodities in the past five years when adjusted for volatility, and Goldman Sachs says the rally will continue as options traders signal no change in the metal’s relatively low risk.
New Delhi,January 28:A minaret of the famed Taj Mahal has recorded a tilt of 3.57 cm in three decades but overall there is no significant change in heights of points lying on the main structure of the monument.
This has been revealed in an affidavit filed by the Archaeological Survey of India in the Supreme Court which had issued a direction in this regard in December last year.
Hyderabad,January 28:The president of Regency Ceramics, one of the largest tiles manufacturer in the country, located at Yanam in Puducherry was hacked to death Friday morning by his workers, just hours after a trade union leader died allegedly due to police beating.
The factory workers attacked K C Chandra Shekhar at his residence after they learnt about the death of their union leader M Murali Mohan.
London, January 26: (IANS) The number of house-husbands and women turning the main breadwinner of families is on the rise in Britain, a new study says.
It says that the number of house-husbands in Britain has tripled over the last 15 years. Last year, 62,000 men whose partners went out to work were classed as “economically inactive” compared to just 21,000 in 1996, the Daily Mail reported.
This follows on from a recent survey which also found that there are 1.4 million men across Britain whose main role is of being the primary carer for their children.
Pune,January 26:Though cops claim he has no history of being mentally unsound, the state transport bus driver who went berserk on a busy Pune street during morning rush hours on Wednesday, ended up mowing down eight people. He would have slain and brutalised more, had it not been for a brave college student, now being hailed as a hero.
Pune,January 26:Though cops claim he has no history of being mentally unsound, the state transport bus driver who went berserk on a busy Pune street during morning rush hours on Wednesday, ended up mowing down eight people. He would have slain and brutalised more, had it not been for a brave college student, now being hailed as a hero.
Hyderabad,January 26:THE CBI is probing a possible link between the alleged illegal assets case involving Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy and the multi- crore Emaar township scam in Hyderabad.
Sources revealed that the arrest of N. Sunil Reddy, a relative and personal assistant of Jaganmohan on Tuesday in connection with the Emaar case has provided some clues that point to this link. Sunil was produced in the special CBI court on Wednesday and it directed him to judicial remand till February 1.
Ralegan Siddhi,January 26 :ANNA Hazare left activism behind for a day to catch the upcoming Akshaye Khanna- starrer Gali Gali Chor Hai with 2,000 fellow villagers at Ralegan Siddhi on Tuesday.
For the makers of the Rumy Jafry- directed film, the event was smart publicity, considering it’s a comedy that addresses the issue of corruption.
Mumbai, January 25: The homes and offices of two of the most bankable Bollywood stars Priyanka Chopra and Katrina Kaif were raided by the income- tax ( I- T) department on Monday.
I- T officials carried out raids at property belonging to both the high- profile actresses and some of their associates for suspected tax evasion on income accruing from advertisements, foreign assignments and guest appearances.
The sleuths also seized 12 private lockers from the raided properties.
Mumbai,January 24 : TAKING a serious view of the Maharashtra ATS claim of having worked out the 13/ 7 serial blasts in Mumbai, home minister P. Chidambaram on Monday called up state agency chief Rakesh Maria and demanded to know the basis of his assertion.
The call came minutes after Maria made the claim at a hurriedly convened press conference in Mumbai and the special cell of the Delhi Police reportedly complained to Chidambaram that among the Maharashtra ATS “ catches” was Naqi Ahmed Sheikh, who was actually helping police nab Yasin Bhatkal and unravel the blast conspiracy.
New Delhi,January 24:AS THE figures suggest, Delhi’s child sex ratio — or the number of girls in the 0- 6 age group per 1,000 boys — has dipped over the past decade. This should be a cause of concern for the government. As it is, the Capital’s child sex ratio always compared unfavourably with the national average.
Now it has started sliding. But Delhi’s woman and child welfare minister Kiran Walia feels the statistics don’t tell the true story.
Hyderabad,January 24 :The All India Congress Committee ( AICC) general secretary is said to be looking for a bridegroom for his daughter in Hyderabad rather than in his home state of Jammu & Kashmir.
Azad, who is also the AICC incharge of Andhra Pradesh affairs, came to Hyderabad recently for participating in the party’s coordination committee meeting at Gandhi Bhavan, the state headquarters of the Congress.
In a departure from practice, this time he also brought along his wife Shameem, who is a prominent Kashmiri singer.
Jaipur, January 23: ON a day when the notables of the Jaipur Literature Festival steered clear of the name that has been lingering like a persistent fog, Chetan Bhagat refused to toe the party line.“ Let us not make heroes out of people who have been banned,” said the best- selling author whose books are said to have sold over six million copies. “ They have been banned for hurting people. They have been banned for hurting Muslims. They shouldn’t be banned but they are not heroes,” he added.
Kabul, January 21: Turkey will train 500 Afghan police officers, Interior Minister Basmillah Mohammadi said Saturday.
Fivehundred more officers will be trained in Turkey in the near future, he added.
Mohammadi was speaking at an award ceremony for officers who recently came back from Turkey after completing their course, Xinhua reported.
The government has stepped up efforts to train and equip Afghan police and the army as the NATO-led forces have handed over the security responsibilities of several areas in the country to the Afghan authorities.
New Delhi, January 21: He’s addressed 85 rallies, trying to go beyond just rhetoric by introducing a weaver boy or invoking a success story like tech guru Sam Pitroda’s to keep the interest going. But will Rahul Gandhi’s high-pitched campaign go beyond mere charisma and actually bring in votes for a sagging Congress in Uttar Pradesh?
That’s a question Congress members are asking one another as India’s ruling party attempts to claw its way upwards from the poor fourth slot it managed in the 2008 elections, winning just 22 of the 403 seats.
New Delhi,January 21 :Victim alleges hotel authorities were not sensitive to her complaint, refused to approach police following which she herself decided to lodge a complaint
New Delhi, January 21: He’s addressed 85 rallies, trying to go beyond just rhetoric by introducing a weaver boy or invoking a success story like tech guru Sam Pitroda’s to keep the interest going. But will Rahul Gandhi’s high-pitched campaign go beyond mere charisma and actually bring in votes for a sagging Congress in Uttar Pradesh?
That’s a question Congress members are asking one another as India’s ruling party attempts to claw its way upwards from the poor fourth slot it managed in the 2008 elections, winning just 22 of the 403 seats.
New Delhi, January 21: He’s addressed 85 rallies, trying to go beyond just rhetoric by introducing a weaver boy or invoking a success story like tech guru Sam Pitroda’s to keep the interest going. But will Rahul Gandhi’s high-pitched campaign go beyond mere charisma and actually bring in votes for a sagging Congress in Uttar Pradesh?
That’s a question Congress members are asking one another as India’s ruling party attempts to claw its way upwards from the poor fourth slot it managed in the 2008 elections, winning just 22 of the 403 seats.
London, January 21: A man in US has the unique distinction of never having had sex but still managing to father 14 children through sperm donation
Trent Arsenault, 36, hit the headlines last December when his free sperm bank came under investigation from the US Food and Drug Administration, which threatened him with a 100,000-dollar fine and up to a year in jail.
Now, the California local who bills himself as having an ideal gene pool to father children, has revealed that he is still a virgin.
Godhra, January 20: Once a epitome of massacre modi now wants to change his image as a sole trustee of GANDHI Gujarat. Modi wants to attract Gujrati Muslims and launched his yatra on friday hoping to have a soothing effect on Muslims.
Ayodhya, January 20: Ayodhya which was a focal point of Babri masjid-Ram temple for more than 30 years is now giving space to uni sex eunuch. Eunuch power has taken the temple city by a storm. And it is no trivialising of the cutthroat electoral battle here.
For sure, Kinnar Gulshan Bindu, the only eunuch in the fray across UP, is giving all other contestants a run for their money.