New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday froze Rs 62 crore worth shares of Balasore Alloys owned by businessman Pramod Mittal, ex-chairman of Global Steel Holdings Ltd, for defrauding and causing a…
Mumbai, May 4 (IANS) The claims of 242 advertisements in healthcare, personal care, food and beverages and education sectors were misleading or false, said a consumer watchdog on Thursday. “The Advertising Standard Council of India’s…
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) Two persons have been arrested here for killing a security guard during a failed robbery, police said on Thursday. Jitender Shukla, 30, was murdered at the Indra Prakash building on…
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) The Supreme Court is likely to pronounce its verdict on Friday on the appeals by four accused in the December 16, 2012, Delhi gang-rape case challenging the Delhi High Court…
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) The Delhi government on Thursday announced compensation of Rs one crore to the family of Delhi Police officer Vijay Kumar, who was shot dead in an apparent gang shootout. Chief…
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) In the backdrop of liquor baron Vijay Mallya’s extradition demand, India and the UK on Thursday agreed to expedite the process of extraditing “wanted persons”. The decision was made in…
Islamabad, May 4 (IANS) Three more hardcore militants tried by the military courts in Pakistan have been executed, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement on Thursday. According to the military’s media wing,…
Islamabad, May 4 (IANS) At least eight people, including seven women of a family, were killed and three others wounded in a road accident in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on Thursday, police said. The accident occurred in…
Mogadishu, May 4 (IANS) Somalia’s security forces on Thursday shot dead the country’s 31-year-old minister after mistaking him for a militant, officials said. Abbas Abdullahi Siraji was the youngest minister of the new Somali cabinet…
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) A court here on Thursday granted bail to suspended Chhattisgarh IAS officer B.L. Agrawal and others in a corruption case. Central Bureau Of Investigation (CBI) Special Judge Virender Kumar Goyal…
Shimla, May 4 (IANS) Expressing solidarity with Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, facing a disproportionate assets case, his ministers on Thursday slammed opposition BJP leaders for pronouncing him guilty by “behaving like a judge”….
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) The CBI on Thursday said it has registered a corruption case against Delhi government’s former Health Secretary Tarun Seem in connection with a Rs 10.50-crore contract awarded to three security…
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) The AAP on Thursday again accused the Centre of misusing the CBI against its party leaders following the central agency’s raids, including at the Delhi Secretariat here. Aam Aadmi Party…
Mumbai, May 4 (IANS) In a much-anticipated verdict, the Bombay High Court on Thursday rejected a CBI plea seeking the death sentence for three of the 11 convicts in the 15-year-old gang rape case of…
Hyderabad, May 4 (IANS) The Hyderabad Police on Thursday registered a case against senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh for his claim that Telangana Police had set up a bogus site of terror outfit Islamic State…
Lucknow, May 4 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh government has told officials to daily monitor some 6,600 petrol pumps following allegations that they were selling less fuel at a higher price, an official said on Thursday….
Singapore, May 4 (IANS) Singapore police on Thursday said the Thai heir to the Red Bull empire Vorayuth Yoovidhaya, who is wanted in Thailand, is not in the city-state. A spokeswoman for the Singapore police…
Jammu, May 4 (IANS) Five persons were buried alive on Thursday when a snow avalanche hit a public transport vehicle in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. The victims were travelling in a…
Mumbai, May 4 (IANS) Gang-rape victim Bilkis Bano on Thursday hailed a Bombay High Court verdict that upheld the life terms given to 11 convicts in the 2002 incident and quashed the acquittal of five…
Shivamogga (Karnataka), May 4 (IANS) Seven men travelling to attend a friend’s wedding died in a road accident in central Karnataka when the car they were in crashed into the rear of a truck, police…