Days after being granted one more month to surrender, actor Sanjay Dutt has filed a review petition in the Supreme Court challenging his conviction and five-year jail term in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.
The review petition against the March 21 judgement of the apex court was filed by 53-year-old Dutt on Friday and is likely to come up for hearing next week, sources said.
A 22-year-old mentally challenged woman was raped allegedly by a ward boy at a nursing home whose doctors have been arrested on charge of trying to bribe the victim’s kin to hush up the matter.
The incident occurred at Walhekarwadi in Chinchwad town near hear on April 16 in the nursing home run by Dr Vishal Sonawane (34) and his wife Dr Varsha (31) where the victim was undergoing treatment, police said today.
Actor John Abraham, who essays the role of a dreaded gangster in the upcoming crime drama “Shootout at Wadala” believes that the film will widen the reach of his audience and prove his acting prowess.
The model-turned-actor, who started his Bollywood journey with “Jism” in 2003, has been part of commercially successful films like “Dhoom” and “Dostana” but feels that its time he shifts his focus to other genres.
Angry protesters staged a second day of demonstrations here Sunday to voice outrage over the brutal rape of a five-year-old girl — storming the barricades outside the residences of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
The girl, whose private parts have suffered mutilation due to the savagery of the act, was in stable condition, said doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), adding she may not undergo any reconstructive surgery for now.
RIL Chairman Mukesh Ambani is the new entrant to the ‘Z’ category VIP security club after the Union Home Ministry recently approved an armed commando squad following threat perception to the business tycoon.
The Home Ministry has tasked country’s lead anti-Naxal operations force CRPF to take the responsibility with immediate effect after the proposal to this effect was cleared by the office of Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde.
Kings XI Punjab defeated Pune Warriors by seven wickets in their Pepsi Indian Premier League match here today.
Brief Scores:
Pune Warriors: 185 for 4 in 20 overs (Aaron Finch 65, Yuvraj Singh 34, Luke Wright 34; Azhar Mahmood 2/42).
Kings XI Punjab: 186 for 3 in 20 overs (David Miller 80 not out, Mandeep Singh 77; Bhuvneshwar Kumar 1/31).
The Congress party on Sunday hoped that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would not to stall the second half of the budget session of parliament over the telecom scam.
Party spokesman Rashid Alvi said issues relating to people of India should be addressed peacefully and responsibly during the parliament session.
A group of Australian researchers “undiscovered” a mysterious place called Sandy Island in northwest of New Caledonia, last year. The island had popped up on maps, and it even showed up as a black polygon on Google Earth. But when scientists sailed there last November, they found open water instead of solid ground, reports Fox News.
Two large, landmark radiotherapy studies have shown that it is possible to treat cervical cancer effectively using image-guided brachytherapy.
Researchers will tell the 2nd Forum of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) that image-guided brachytherapy is able to deliver very high doses of radiotherapy, which prevent the tumour from growing in over 90 percent of patients, with few serious side-effects to the surrounding normal organs.
A news anchor in China was about to tie the knot before the earthquake ripped through the country, forcing her straight in to reporter mode as she interviewed shocked locals in her wedding dress.
Chen Ying, who works at a local news station in China, was about to get married when the 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit.
The quake hit where her nuptials were taking place, the Daily Telegraph reported.
Ying wasted no time in grabbing a microphone and doing her job, following her newshound instincts.
Family members and relatives of a six-year-old rape victim wento on a hunger strike on Sunday here, over a demand for justice for their daughter.
A six-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered in Nagla Kalar area in Aligarh on April 18, sparking violent protests by local residents and prompting police to use force in which at least seven persons were injured.
The father of the victim said he wanted Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav to look into the matter personally and punish the culprits involved .
With protests against the brutal rape on a five-year-old girl in New Delhi escalating, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Sunday said collective efforts were needed to root out such “depravity” from society. He also said that “vast improvements” were required to ensure women”s safety in the country.
Asking political parties to not “do politics” over the Saradha Group chit fund bust, Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh Sunday said that the central government has taken “the right steps” to keep “bogus companies”in check.
He also noted that Kolkata has become a main centre for shell companies for money laundering.
“Instead of shifting responsibility to centre or state, we have to identify all those depositors and agents deprived of their rights.
A one-month-old boy who was allegedly sold for Rs 1.5 lakh in Nizamabad district of Andhra Pradesh has been rescued by the police, officials said on Sunday.
Two persons including the baby’s father Gangadhar, a labourer and one mediator called Linganna, allegedly sold the baby ten days ago, the Nizamabad Rural police said, quoting a complaint lodged by the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) authorities.
While expressing views on the importance of of social media, senior journalist Ravinder Makhaik today said the social media is posing a threat to print and electronic media as it was rapidly dominating other form of conventional media and it is unregulated and uncontrolled making irrelevant the geographic boundary globally.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has searched four districts of Bihar for Tahseen Akhtar, allegedly a member of the Indian Mujahideen (IM) involved in terrorist strikes in the country, police said on Sunday.
“NIA teams have conducted raids in Samastipur, Darbhanga, Munger and Madhubani districts in the last 24 hours in search of Tahseen Akhtar alias Monu, accused of several terrorist attacks,” an officer at the Bihar Police headquarters here said.
Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remained in serious condition in a Boston hospital on Sunday unable to answer questions on the devastating attack, officials said. Investigators released stunning images of Tsarnaev’s final moments of freedom, slumbering wounded in a boat in a suburban backyard. They are also stepping up inquiries into a trip to Muslim regions of Russia taken by his accomplice brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
The 19-year-old is “serious but stable,” Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick told reporters Saturday. “I think not able to communicate yet.”
Retired IAS officer K V Ramanachary joined the TRS here on Sunday.
Party chief K Chandrasekhara Rao while admitting him in the party said the party needed the services of such eminent and knowledgeable persons. He immediately appointed Ramanachary as a Politburo member of the party.
Close on the heels of a TDP MLA announcing his decision to join TRS, the TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday said many others from TDP and Congress would join his party soon.
“I have been telling that and it is proved many times and within the near future you will see many leaders joining TRS,” he told reporters here. TDP MLA G Kamalakar from Karimnagar district had recently met the TRS president and declared his intention to join the Telangana party.
Acting on a tip-off on Sunday, sleuths of Commissioner’s Task force Central Zone Team raided a house near Sri Venkateshwara Swamy Temple at Chikkadpally and nabbed one person, who was accepting Cricket Bettings over cellphones from punters for the ongoing IPL T-20 Cricket Matches.
Vijayawada MP Lagadapati Rajgopal has made it clear that there was no threat to the Congress government till 2014.
Speaking to the media here on Sunday, Lagadapati said that nothing will happen to the Congress party interests, even if some people leave the party.
Dubbing TRS Chief K Chandrashekar Rao as a big ‘Boozer’, TDP senior leader Mothkupally Narsimulu has alleged no body could understand what the former speaks.
Speaking to the media here on Sunday, Mothkupally has exuded confidence that the TDP will come to power in the next elections and TDP Chief N Chandrababu Naidu will become the Chief Minister of the State. He said that one could understand the ‘Boozer’ attitude and policy of KCR while seeing his criticism against Chandrababu.
The girl students have maintained their supremacy in the first year Intermediate examination results, which were released by Secondary Education Minister K. Parthasarathi here on Sunday. In all, while 54.6 per cent of the students got through the examination, the Krishna district topped the State and the backward Mahbubnagar district occupied the last place.
Hyderabad, April 21 (IANS) Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) Sunday vowed not to allow transport of iron ore mines from Telangana for Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, saying these mineral resources should be used only for the region’s development.
TRS, which is fighting for separate statehood to Telangana, is strongly opposed the government move allocating iron ore from Bayyaram in Khammam district for Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, located in coastal city Visakhapatnam in Andhra region.
New Delhi, April 21 (ANI): Senior leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Sitaram Yechury on Sunday termed the 5-year-old rape case as “bizarre” and the behaviour of the police as “sheer nonsense”. Coming down hard on the behaviour of the cops he said, “Obviously it is sheer nonsense, police cannot behave in this way, bribing and assaulting, all this will not be accepted. There is no fear of the law left, forget about it”s respect. Earlier in the day the doctors described her condition as recovering, out of danger and stable.