20:50
Slain deputy superintendent of police Zia-ul-Haq's wife has demanded an outside state trial and hearing by a fast track court into her husband's murder, reports CNN-iBN. In a letter addressed to the UP government, Parveen Azad has demanded that the probe should be done by a Delhi CBI team,...
20:47
A Nigerian Islamist militant group's claims to have killed seven foreign hostages it seized last month are credible, Western governments say. The hostages -- from Italy, Britain, Greece and Lebanon -- were captured in a raid on a construction site in the northern state of Bauchi. In...
20:28
Hindu groups based in the United Kingdom have called on the government to enforce stricter disclosure norms after it emerged that many restaurants serving Indian food in Scotland were using the wrong kind of meat. In the wake of the Europe-wide horsemeat scandal that is still under...
20:16
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today said he does not think boxer Vijender Singh has any involvement with the drug haul case in Punjab, stressing that law would take its own course. The chief minister was asked to comment on the Olympic medalist's name cropping up in connection with...
20:11
A friend of South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius says he is on the verge of suicide as he fights accusations of murdering his girlfriend, according to media reports in the UK.Mike Azzie, a close friend of the troubled sports star, told a BBC documentary team the sportsman was a broken man...
19:45
Four minor Dalit sisters suffered serious burn injuries when an unidentified youth threw acid on them in the district. Four sisters aged between four and 16 years suffered burn injuries when an unidentified youth threw acid on them on Saturday night at Kotmara village, 25 km from Raigarh...
19:13
The special Anti-Corruption Bureau court has acquitted two security consultants, allegedly caught red-handed while taking bribe in the name of former Anti-Terrorism Squad chief and the slain Indian Police Service officer Hemant Karare. The ACB had alleged that the two took bribes from those...
19:10
Expressing surprise over the dropping of India opener Virender Sehwag, former captain Sourav Ganguly reportedly told a Bengali television channel on Saturday that current team skipper MS Dhoni had a hand in the exclusion.I am surprised about the fact that sehwag has been dropped. Such a big...
18:51
CNN-iBN reports: India's national boxing coach GS Sandhu came out in support of the Olympic medal winning boxer Vijender Singh amidst allegations against him in the Rs 130 crore drug haul, even as Ram Singh, another national-level boxer who is under investigation in the case, was expelled by...
18:24
After six years of being on the run, rape convict Bitti Mohanty, the son of a senior cop in Odisha, was arrested on Friday night by the Kerala police.He has reportedly denied that he was being helped by his father, BB Mohanty, former director general of police of Odisha. However, investigations...
18:03
The girl, who was allegedly thrashed by Punjab policemen in full public view in the district when she sought action against some persons who teased her, today threatened to go on a hunger strike if the government did not dismiss the officials immediately. I am going on fast-unto-death from...
17:07
Six months before he was shot dead in the constituency of politician Raja Bhaiya, senior police officer Zia-ul-Haque had prepared a list of cases against the MLA, reports NDTV.Charges in the 47 cases listed against him include murder, conspiracy to murder and violations under the Gangster...
16:42
Anti-apartheid icon and former South African President Nelson Mandela has spent a night in hospital after being admitted for a scheduled medical check-up, less than three months after being treated for a lung infection and gallstones. There isn't an update. I just have to allow the doctors to...
16:24
DMK's T R Baalu and T KS Elangovan asked Mulayam Singh Yadav, Lalu Prasad, Sharad Yadav to attend TESO conference. Baalu spoke them in English after which Mulayam Singh nodded and said yes.Lalu Prasad too got confused and said okay. But soon, AIADMK MP Dr V Maitreyan went to to the three...
15:50
Prohibitory orders have been clamped in a seven-km radius around the controversial Kundankulam Nuclear Power Plant as anti-nuclear activists have threatened to picket it on Monday. Officials said a total of 4,000 policemen had been deployed around the plant and a close vigil would be kept on...
15:47
A factory belonging to relatives of an Arjuna award winner was today searched by Punjab police in a village in Fatehgarh Sahib in the wake of recovery of 26 kg haul of heroin with a street value of Rs 130 crore. A senior police officer confirmed the raid and said two persons...
15:43
Olympic bronze-medallist Vijender Singh is unlikely to be tested by the National Anti-Doping Agency despite claims by his sparring partner Ram Singh that the star boxer consumed small amounts of heroin. Sources in the NADA told PTI that Vijender's case was a matter to be investigated by the...
15:37
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Foundation leader Yasin Malik has been detained at the Sringar airport, reports Times Now.He is to be taken to his residence and placed under house arrest. Malik, who is under attack for meeting terror outfit Lashker-e-Tayiba chief Hafeez Saeed in Pakistan, returned...
15:19
A team of the Rajasthan police is expected to arrive in Kannur on Monday to seek custody of rape case convict Bitti Mohanty, who was arrested after remaining absconding for seven years by jumping parole while serving a prison term in Rajasthan. Jaipur Assistant Police Commissioner Biju George...
15:16
TIMES NOW traces rape convict absconder Bitti Mohanty's 'mentor' in Andhra Pradesh, Rama Rao. Rao, former headmaster, said he did not know Bitti Mohanty's real identity and that he was introduced to him under the alias Rajeev Rajan. He says he encouraged Bitti to take a bank test when he...
15:00
Adding a new twist to the drug haul case, boxer Ram Singh has claimed that he and boxer Vijender Singh were in touch with drug peddler Anup Singh Kahlon since December 2012, according to a CNN-iBN. Sources said Ram and Vijender met Kahlon and co-accused Rocky four to five times and took...
13:36
Reports our correspondent from New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee is now going tough with the government. His principle stand is that during the Parliament session and during his foreign visits is no file should be sent to him. No shuffle, no transfer of business rules or no change...
13:19
Boxer Ram Singh, who is under the scanner in the Rs 130-crore drug bust case, has been expelled from the National Institute of Sports, Patiala.NIS director says that Olympian Vijender has recommended Ram Singh's candidature.The decision of the NIS came after he admitted to have taken drugs.
13:10
Boxer Ram Singh has now admitted that both he and Olympic medallist Vijender Singh took drugs but thinking they were food supplements. Vijender took drugs two or three times thinking that they were food supplements. When we found out they were drugs we were shocked and stopped taking them,...
12:57
Rejecting suggestions that ministries are split over various provisions of the proposed anti-rape bill, Law Minister Ashwani Kumar has said proposals are brought before the Union cabinet after sufficient discussions. He also said that there is no finality in law making and the government is...
12:51
The 10-member Central Bureau of Investigation team in Kunda, Uttar Pradesh has appealed to villagers to come forward as witnesses in its probe into the murder of senior police officer Zia-ul-Haque, who was shot dead on March 2, according to NDTV. In a press release, the CBI, which has...
12:34
About 50 people have been arrested in this eastern Pakistani city after a mob torched over 150 homes of the minority Christian community in search of an alleged blasphemer. Police officials said they had arrested about 50 people who had been identified from video footage of the attack or named...
12:20
After suspending visa on arrival for Pakistani senior citizens, India may put on hold the proposed group visa facility to the nationals of that country in the wake of the unease in bilateral ties following the killing of two Indian soldiers along the Line of Control. The visa on arrival...
11:46
NDTV reports: Sources in the Punjab police have said that boxer Vijender Singh experimented with drugs which he allegedly bought with his friend and national-level boxer Ram Singh from drug dealer Anup Singh Kahlon who was arrested on March 3.Police says though Vijender will be questioned soon,...
11:21
Two people have been reportedly killed in a stampede at Lodheshwar temple in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, reports Press Trust of India. The incident occurred this morning when 'kanwarias'(devotees of Lord Shiva) broke through the queue of devotees to offer water at Lodeshwar Mahadev Temple. This...
11:19
Denied a visa to visit the United States, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today took to video conferencing to address the Indian-American community, saying his idea of secularism is India First. Modi, who often faced questions over the killing of Muslims in the post-Godhra riots in 2002,...
00:05
Olympic medallist boxer Vijender Singh's friend and sparring partner Ram Singh claimed that the duo consumed small quantities of drug on a few occasions, which was given to them by NRI Anup Singh Kahlon, key accused in a heroin haul case, who attempted suicide under police custody.Punjab Police...
00:05
The Vatican installed a special chimney on the Sistine Chapel from which white smoke will signal the election of a new leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics as cardinals prepare for the centuries-old tradition starting on Tuesday.The conclave of 115 cardinal electors will be held under...
00:04
Militants staged two suicide attacks that killed at least 19 people today, the first full day of US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel's visit to Afghanistan. They were a fresh reminder of the challenges posed by insurgents to the US-led NATO force as it hands over the country's security to the...
00:03
Indian and Chinese women are more ambitious than their counterparts in the United States, according to a think tank research.Research from a think tank, Centre for Talent Innovation has shown that the career ambitions and commitments of women in the Brazil, Russia, India, and China overwhelm...
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Bitti Mohanty, rape convict on the run for 6 years, arrestedRevealed! Sabarmati jail tunnel 214 ft long not 26 ft Saina's All England dream over as she loses in semi-finalsPak shocker! 3000-strong mob evicts Christians from colony
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