A special court here has sentenced a man to ten years’ rigorous imprisonment on the charge of raping a minor and imposed a fine of Rs 2,000 on him.
In his verdict delivered yesterday, Judge S Saluja convicted Lachhuram Bheel for sexually assaulting the girl
after threatening to kill her at Baseda village on May 10, 2010.
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Former minister Shabbir Ali has taken serious exception to the doubts expressed by YSRCP Chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s family on the death of former chief minister Dr YSR.
Speaking to the media at Gandhi Bhavan here on Friday, Shabbir Ali alleged that the doubts expressed by the Jagan’s family after two years was only to evoke sympathy and get political benefits in the present bye-elections. Shabbir Ali strongly suspected that Jagan and Brahmananda Reddy might have played a role in the death of Dr YSR.
Telangana lawyers on Friday launched an agitation at the High Court, demanding immediate arrest of the CBI First Additional Court Judge Pattabhi Rama Rao, who was suspended by the High Court.
It was alleged that Pattabhi Rama Rao has received Rs 5 crores as bribe from the former Karnataka minister and mining baron Gali Janardana Reddy to grant him bail. Pattabhi Rama Rao granted bail to Gali on May 12. However, the former mining baron continued to be in jail in Karnataka as he was arrested there in connection with another case.
TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu has said that late Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy had written a letter to him in 2004 for permission to sell his house to clear his debts and questioned how he had earned thousands of crores of rupees within a few years from that stage.
Addressing election meetings in the Potti Sriramulu Nellore district on Friday, Naidu said that when YSR sought permission to sell his house, he could not give it as it was constructed on government land. He said that he wrote back stating that YSR could pay for the land and then sell his house.
YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy’s wife Bharati had a bitter experience at the Chanchalguda jail here when she came to visit her husband on Friday.
Bharati came to the jail along with her relatives to meet Jagan in the afternoon. However, as the time given for the relatives to meet the prisoners in ‘Mulakhat’ ended, she was not allowed to meet her husband by the jail authorities.
A US federal court judge trying Rajat Gupta on insider trading charges has observed that prosecutors were “tarring” the former Indian-American managing director of McKinsey & Co. with an unrelated separate scheme.
“That’s the problem,” US District Judge Jed Rakoff said when Gupta’s lawyer, Gary Naftalis, argued in a hearing Friday outside the jury’s presence that prosecutors were attempting to retry the case of convicted hedge fund billionaire Rajaratnam to get his client.
The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) will launch 16 reactors at an outlay of Rs.2.3 trillion ($40 billion) during the 12th Plan period (2012-17), a top official of the atomic power operator said.
“We have to launch eight 700 MW pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWRs) and eight light water reactors (LWRs) involving a total outlay of Rs.230,000 crore (Rs.2.3 trillion). The LWRs will be from foreign companies,” S.K. Jain, who retired Thursday as NPCIL chairman and managing director, told IANS in an interview.
Russian prosecutors have decided against taking forward their case seeking a ban on a translated version of Bhagavad Gita, bringing down the curtains on the sensitive issue that had enraged Hindus globally and even threatened to strain Russia’s ties with India.
State prosecutors in the Siberian city of Tomsk will not challenge a lower court decision to refuse to declare the translation of the Hindu scripture as “extremist”, RAPSI legal news agency reported.
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev and social activist Anna Hazare will Sunday sit in the capital on a day-long fast against corruption and black money stashed away by Indians abroad.
“The protest will take place simultaneously in the capital at Jantar Mantar, in all state capitals and in 650 districts across the country,” Ramdev said at a press conference here.
Ramdev said he would be joined by Hazare during his day-long hunger strike.
Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Kiran Bedi will also participate in the protest.
Close friends, fans and fellow artists will remember Maqbool Fida Husain, one of India’s greatest contemporary artists, on his first death anniversary June 9 with a commemorative programme, “Remembering Husain”, at the India International Centre (IIC) in the capital.
The artist died in exile in London. He was 96.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday moved a petition in the High Court seeking permission to arrest First Additional CBI Judge T Pattabhi Ramarao, who granted bail to former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy in an illegal mining case, by allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 10 crore.
The agency has noticed that Rs 10 crore has changed hands and at least four people were involved in the alleged hawala operations. The agency also booked the judge’s son and others involved in this connection.
Bharatiya Janata Party state president G Kishan Reddy on Friday accused Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao of cheating the people of the region on Telangana statehood by claiming that Congress president Sonia Gandhi would announce her decision within three months.
It’s hard to imagine that a small room in a dingy lane is the training ground for young talent from nearby slums who are on their way to becoming B-Boys (Break Boys) who perform the Breaking or B-boying street dance genre.
As one enters the room in the Khirki urban village in South Delhi after climbing steep and dark stairs, one is greeted by sounds of laughing, screaming and hooting. The Slumgods of Tiny Drops, as the group is known, are celebrating.
Harvinder Singh, a 16-year-old, also known as B-boy Lala of Tiny Drops, loves to hop on to the tips of his sneakers.
Bollywood actors Ranbir Kapoor and Farhan Akhtar gestures during a promotional event ahead of IIFA Awards 2012, in Mumbai on Friday. UNI PHOTO -70U
A woman got injured after she was shot at by her husband, who demanded a son from her after
three daughters, police said.
The incident took place in Khajrana area here late last night, they said today.
The accused Bunti Narvale, a history-sheeter and wanted by police, fled from the spot after firing, Khajarana
Thana Incharge Kulwant Singh told PTI.
Injured Priti, who received a bullet on her hand, was admitted to local hospital, whose condition was stable, Singh said.
Priti had come to stay at her brother’s place as her husband used to quarrel with frequently, he added.
The CBI has booked two diamond export companies here for allegedly availing Rs 63 crore loan from Indian Overseas Bank on the basis of fraudulent documents and carried out searches at the residence of their executives.
CBI said cases was registered against companies Tanya Jwellers and Jaimin Jewellers pvt Limited their MDs and
directors and other unknown officials for their alleged involvement in availing Rs 63 crore demand loan against export collection bills fraudulently, in connivance with private logistic company, from Indian Overseas Bank.
The Allahabad High Court today asked the Centre and Uttar Pradesh government to file their replies on a petition challenging the detention of two Kashmiri youths who were picked up by the Anti-Terrorist Squad of the state police while travelling by train last week.
A division bench comprising Justice Dharnidhar Jha and Justice Ramesh Sinha directed the Centre and the state to file
their counter affidavits within a month and ordered that the matter be listed for further hearing after the court reopens after summer vacation on July 2.
A Tata Steel helicopter carrying some company officials made an emergency landing at Situlata village in Seraikela-Kharswan district due to bad weather this evening, company sources said.
The helicopter carrying personal executive officer to the Tata Steel managing director H M Nerurkar, Arun Mishra and
four others including crew members made the emergency landing at a village about 50 km from here but all are safe, said Prabhat Sharma, Head of Corporate Affairs of Tata Steel.
Company officials have left for the spot to bring them back by road, the sources added.
A group of lawyers representing Pakistani doctor Shakeel Afridi, sentenced to a 33-year jail term after he helped the CIA track Osama bin Laden, appealed against his conviction today.
Idress Kamal, the head of an anti-militancy civil society group that has taken up Afridi’s case, said an appeal had been filed in a court in Peshawar against the doctor’s conviction.
The appeal also challenges the sentence and charges levelled against Afridi, he said.
After a tense seven month stand-off, Pakistan has allowed two US military liaison officers back on its turf, a move largely seen as a small but “significant” sign of cooperation.
Denying reports that American trainers are back in Pakistan, the Pentagon yesterday clarified that it was
two liaison officers, who had returned to Peshawar for coordination purposes, after being removed following a deadly cross-border NATO raid.
“What has happened in just the last week or so has been the return of a couple liaison officers from Regional
A suicide truck bomber attacked a US-run base today, sparking clashes that killed up to 14 people in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistani border, officials said.
NATO’s US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said none of its personnel was killed in the attack in
Khost province, a Taliban flashpoint that borders Pakistan.
The Taliban militia, which is leading a 10-year insurgency against foreign troops and the Kabul government, claimed
responsibility for the attack.
But the precise details of what happened were murky.
A damaging cyberattack against Iran’s nuclear programme was the work of US and Israeli experts and proceeded under the secret orders of President Barack Obama, a media report here said.
Obama was eager to slow Iran’s apparent progress toward building an atomic bomb without launching a traditional
military attack, The Washington Post said quoting unnamed current and former US officials.
The origins of the cyberweapon, which some analysts dubbed ‘Stuxnet’ after it was discovered in 2010, have long been debated.
Most experts and reports have pointed fingers at US and Israel.
A city court on Friday granted bail to Bharath Mohanlal Rateswar alias Bharat Bhai, an accused in the 2007 Mecca Masjid blast case, however, his remand will continue in connection with the Ajmer blast case.
The special court for National Investigation Agency (NIA) granted bail to Bharat Bhai after the agency, which is probing the case failed to file charge-sheet against him even after the expiry of 180 days of remand period.
NDTV and Coca-Cola India Friday celebrated the completion of transforming the 100th school under the ‘Support My School’ initiative at Priyadarshini Vidyalaya in northwest Mumbai.
The event also marked the inauguration of the 50th school library under the initiative. Set up by Pearson Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Pearson, a media and education company, the library has over 600 books on all subjects. It was inaugurated by campaign ambassador and cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar.
Jamia Millia Islamia Vice Chancellor Najeeb Jung Friday felicitated 15 girl students, the first batch of girls who have recently been admitted to the 300-year-old Anglo Arabic School in the capital.
The Anglo Arabic School has made history by admitting girls for the first time in its over 300 year existence. Having started off as Madrasa Ghaziuddin around 1692, the school had remained an all-boys school thus far.
“This is the girls’ first step towards better schooling. The change will come gradually,” said Jung.