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Italian authorities have arrested 10 people on suspicion of multiple homicide in connection with the discovery of 52 bodies aboard a boat packed with migrants and refugees off the coast of Libya this week, police in Sicily said Friday. The suspects could also face additional charges of aiding...
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The CEO of the company that runs adultery website Ashley Madison is stepping down in the wake of the massive breach of the company's computer systems and outing of millions of its members.Avid Life Media Inc. says Noel Biderman's departure is effective immediately and was a mutual decision.This...
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We have recovered Sheena Bora's passportfrom dehradun. This negates the theory that Sheena went to the US, Mumbai Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria said at the press conference today. We just interrogated the third accused and he has accepted his complicity in his crime. Our teams have gone to...
22:35
The British Library in London has declined to store a large collection of Taliban-related documents over concerns regarding breach of terrorism laws.The collection, related to the Afghan Taliban, includes official newspapers, maps and radio broadcasts.The British Library said it feared it could...
22:33
JUST IN: Senior IAS officer Sunil Arora named as I & B Ministry Secretary
22:18
The UK government has created a dedicated Twitter feed to counter the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group that has seized swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria.The @UKAgainstISIL account will provide updates on the UK government's ongoing work to defeat ISIL.Four posts have been made...
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Experts from Oxford University in the UK and Harvard University in the US plan to take 3D photographs of every artefact under threat from the dreaded Islamic State militant group in an attempt to recreate them.The initiative comes against a backdrop of widespread destruction by the terrorists of...
21:55
On the side of a hill in Pocheon, about 18 miles (30 kilometers) from the Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea, targets are laid out.They're huge painted numbers and drawings of tanks bearing the North Korean star emblem.Through a megaphone, a soldier announces what target to...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to attend the three-day meeting of RSS and its affiliates in which top BJP leaders and ministers will alsoparticipate. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat besides top functionaries of numerous Sangh-affiliated bodies will participate in the September 2-4 conclave during...
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JUST IN: Indrani Mukerjea and her driver Shyam Rai brought to Khar police station in Mumbai for questioning. Sanjeev Khanna, and Mikhail Bora also jointly questioned in presence of Mumbai Commissioner of Police Rakesh Maria.According to reports, Peter Mukherjea tried to give 4-page...
20:46
JUST IN: Sanjeev Khanna has been brought to the Khar police station in Mumbai for his interrogation in the Sheena Bora murder case.
20:28
Pakistan today summoned Indian High Commissioner TCA Raghavan and lodged a strong protest over alleged ceasefire violations, saying at least eight civilians were killed in firing by Indian troops. Pakistan Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry summoned Raghavan to convey that today's ceasefire...
20:11
Sheena Bora, whose murder three years ago, is the only headline India has had for the last three days, was active on LinkedIn. Until two weeks ago. At least, that is what her profile on the professional networking site shows. Sheena's mother, Indrani, is said to have used her phone and other...
20:04
A Virginia teenager has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for helping another teen travel to Syria to join the Islamic State and providing other aid to the militant group. The judge said he considered 17-year-old Ali Shukri Amin's age and lack of a criminal record during sentencing...
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Peter Mukerjea has left the Khar police station after giving a written statement. Right now, Mikhail Bora's statement is being recorded. Headlines Today says Peter was told to 'confront' Indrani at the police station - sit face-to-face -- and answer questions put to them jointly. But Peter...
18:43
Sheena Bora case: Mumbai Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria reaches Khar Police station. All the three accused in custody -- Indrani Mukerjea, her ex-husband Sanjeev Khanna and the driver Shyam Manohar Rai -- are likely to be interrogated together. Mumbai top cop Rakesh Maria, who is heading the...
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And here's the final word on whether Sheena Bora's remains exist. JJ Hospital Dean T Lahane, says, JJ Hospital has preserved body parts which are believed to be of Sheena Bora. It has been given by Raigad Police. So far, we've submitted unknown body parts to the Mumbai police, only the Forensic...
17:46
So, Mughal emperor Aurangzeb has been asked to leave Delhi. One of Delhi's most elite addresses, Aurangzeb Road, will be renamed after former president APJ Abdul Kalam. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted the change saying, Congrats. NDMC jst now decided to rename Aurangzeb Road to APJ Abdul...
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How can someone do such a horrific thing to Sheena? a non-teaching senior staff at the Disneyland High School in Guwahati told Rediff.com over the telephone on Friday, August 28. This is the school Sheena studied in from nursery to Class 10. Sheena was a bright, young girl, always bubbling with...
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Union Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu today lashed out at Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for sitting in the lap of Congress and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad for the sake of political convenience and said that the people of Bihar will not accept this unnatural and unethical alliance during the...
16:58
JUST IN: Six NSCN (K) militants killed in Noklak, Tuensang (Nagaland) by the Army.
16:53
The Prime Minister's Office is directly involved in the efforts to resolve the One-Rank-One-Pension (OROP) issue and the government is working to fill in the small gaps in it, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said today said. He also said that some time should be given to resolve the matter. Now...
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ABP News: Dr Lahane, JJ dean says Raigad police did give remains of an unknown body in 2012. Samples handed over to Khar police for DNA test.
16:32
Since getting murdered means the world knows about your lovers, who you shopped with, what your driver did, how much money you have in your bank accounts, here's more on those lines. That's the picture Indrani's ex-husband Sanjeev Khanna shared on Sanjeev Khanna shared on May 15, 2014 from a...
16:23
Is President Pranab Mukherjee reluctant to re-issue the land bill for the fourth time? Finance minister Arun Jaitley has held two rounds of discussions with the President on the re-issuance of the land ordnance. The government has had apprehensions that the president may not sign as it is the...
16:13
Pakistani terrorist Sajjad Ahmed captured in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday remanded in five days police custody.In a major success, the army yesterday, captured a Pakistani terrorist after killing his four associates. The encounter which ended last afternoon after two days, comes weeks after...
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Hit & run case: Petition filed against Salman Khan on behalf of late constable Ravindra Patil's mother seeking cancellation of Khan's bail.
15:57
On a recent evening, The Delhi Walla went to the launch of Avirook Sen's new non-fiction book, Aarushi: Anatomy of a Murder, at the India International Center. It turned out to be the scandal of the season. Manu Joseph, a journalist and novelist, was presiding over a panel talk about the book...
15:32
The police said in the court that Sanjeev Khanna had played an active role in the conspiracy and murder of 24-year-old Sheena, daughter of Indrani, and he had to be taken to the spot where she was killed on April 24, 2012. The police contended that Indrani, the wife of former STAR CEO Peter...
15:19
Being the very smart man that he is, Narendra Modi will be the first to recognise -- even if he does not acknowledge it publicly -- that August 25, 2015, is the day when Gujarat finally started the process of disowning him. Future historians may even mark August 25 as the date when it all...
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Amid reports to the contrary that there are no remains of Sheena Bora's body, the Mumbai Police today said they had in fact exhumed the remains of what is 'suspected' to be Sheena's body. Indian Express reports that the remains were exhumed from Pen taluka in Maharashtra where the Indrani...
14:51
Mid Day spoke to the doctor who was called in to conduct a spot post-mortem of what is now believed to be Sheena Bora's body in 2012 and has learnt that he had handed over samples for DNA analysis to the Pen police. While the Pen police has claimed the samples were sent to the Forensic Science...
14:42
Sheena Bora murder case - Indrani Mukerjea leaves Khar Police Station.
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Sanjeev (Khanna) is a happy-go-lucky person, who is always eager to help others. He is an affectionate man, whom I love a lot. It's really difficult to accept that he could be involved in a murder, Wing Commander Deejay Kler (retd) told Indrani Roy/Rediff.com.Read
14:31
Watching the Patel agitation in Gujarat, while living in Kerala, creates mixed emotions. The violence, especially the police brutality, is repugnant. The Indian state looks ugly whenever, wherever, and for whatever reason, it brutalizes the unarmed citizen. At least one custodial death has...
14:22
Indrani Mukherjea's former husband Sanjeev Khanna has been remanded to police custody by the Mumbai court till August 31 in the Sheena Bora murder case. Police sought police custody for Khanna for a maximum available period. He will be taken for a reconstruction of the crime. Police have also...
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Indrani Mukerjea was interrogated by the Mumbai police commissioner Rakesh Maria for over nine hours on Thursday. But the cops at the Khar police station were pretty flummoxed at the disposition of the 'cold and calculated' Indrani. Indrani has proved to be a tough nut to crack even for a...
13:46
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Thursday called on Tamil weekly magazine Thuglak's Editor 'Cho' Ramaswamy, who has been hospitalised in Chennai and enquired about his health.
13:44
With the relentless coverage on the Sheena Bora murder case, it's possible you may have missed out on details of the sordid story that is the Sheena Bora murder. So, here's an update from a TV channel. :)
13:31
Just in: Indrani Mukerjea's ex-husband Sanjeev Khanna produced in Bandra court in Mumbai.
13:30
Meanwhile, tension eased across Gujarat as no incident of violence, sparked by Patel community's quota agitation, was reported overnight, while curfew was today lifted in three out of the nine areas of Ahmedabad even as Army continued flag march in some sensitive areas. The situation in Gujarat,...
13:21
Vidhie, Indrani Mukerjea's daughter from her former husband Sanjeev Khanna, a co-accused along with her in the Sheena Bora murder case, said she was in Rome with her step-father Peter Mukerjea when the police arrested her mother. We both were shocked. We knew only as much as each other, she...
13:11
On the 50th anniversary of the 1965 war, President Pranab Mukherjee pays tribute at the Amar Jawan Jyoti. The War of 1965 was a culmination of skirmishes that took place between April 1965 and September 1965 between Pakistan and India.
13:05
A local Mumbai court today allowed the application filed by lawyer of Indrani Mukherjea, accused in the murder case of her daughter Sheena Bora, seeking permission to meet her. Indrani's lawyer had moved the court yesterday saying that police were not allowing her lawyers to meet her. The Bandra...
12:53
Sheena Bora's brother reaches Mumbai from Guwahati.
12:43
Details of the manner in which Sheena Bora was killed on April 24, 2012, have now been revealed by the Mumbai police after hours of interrogation of Indrani Mukerjea's driver, Shyam Rai, Indrani and her ex-husband Sanjeev Khanna. What we know so far is this: The day before...
12:25
In yet another twist to the Sheena Bora murder case, The Times of India quoting online reports said close friends of the Mukerjea family claim that when she was killed, she may have been pregnant with the child of a man close to her mother Indrani Mukerjea.According to the reports, the...
12:20
The Mumbai police identified the DNA sample of the body which is supposedly Sheena Bora's, as sent by Raigad police, according to ANI.The sample will now be matched with Indrani Mukerjea and her husband's DNAs.Indrani's lawyers filed application in Bandra court on Friday to meet her during...
12:03
Mizoram remained cut-off from the rest of the country with National Highway 54, the lifeline of the state, blocked by a massive landslide at Kawnpui town since last evening.People stranded on the highway said that the landslide at Kawnpui was so massive that it looked like as if the entire...
11:59
JUST IN: The Bandra court has allowed the application to meet Indrani during interrogation, but the application over 'food and clothes' is still undecided.
11:33
Curfews, which were imposed after the agitation by the Patel community seeking reservation under OBC quota turned violent, have been lifted from three out of nine police station areas in Ahmedabad today.Violence that had broken out in some parts of Ahmedabad and Surat on Tuesday escalated around...
11:29
Bollywood Actress Sonakshi Sinha reacted to the uproar over the alleged Delhi eve-teasing case, saying she is embarrassed and let down by the incident and apologised to the guy. Read this story HERE
11:18
President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday paid tribute at the Amar Jawan Jyoti, a memorial dedicated to martyred Indian soldiers at India Gate in Central Delhi, to commemorate 50th anniversary of 1965 Indo-Pak War.The Indo-Pakistan War of 1965 was a culmination of skirmishes that took place between...
11:09
More details are likely to emerge in the Sheena Bora murder mystery on Friday, with her brother Mikhail flying from Guwahati to Mumbai where he may be quizzed by the police.Sanjeev Khanna, former husband of accused and Sheena's mother Indrani Mukherjea, who is the wife of former STAR CEO Peter...
10:47
Greece's top judge has become the country's first female prime minister, taking over a caretaker administration to organise early elections next month, the fifth in the crisis-hit country in six years. Read this story HERE
10:28
One of the last survivors of World War Two's most famous prison break, known as the Great Escape, has died aged 101.Australian Paul Royle was one of 76 airmen who escaped from notorious Nazi Stalag Luft III camp in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1944.Their courageous feat was immortalised in the 1963...
10:23
The bodies of as many as 50 people assumed to be migrants being smuggled across Europe were found in a truck abandoned on a highway east of Vienna on Thursday, the police said.The precise toll was yet to be determined, Hans-Peter Doskozil, director of police in the eastern state of Burgenland,...
10:08
Former Star CEO Peter Mukherjea and his first wife Shabnam will soon be summoned to join Sheena Bora murder probe, police sources have told ANIMeanwhile, a Mumbai police team has left for Raigad to re-investigate the spot where Sheena's dead body was disposed off.
10:01
A French woman has won a disability grant after telling a court she suffers from an allergy to electromagnetic radiation from gadgets.Marine Richard, 39, was told she may claim ?800 (Rs 60,000) per month for three years as a result.She said it was a breakthrough for people affected by...
09:58
If you felt the heat this past July, you are hardly alone.July saw the highest average temperatures since record-keeping began -- globally, not just in the United States -- the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Thursday.Globally, the first seven months of the year also had...
09:45
New Delhi: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar will chair a crucial Defence Acquisition Council meeting on Friday during which some significant decisions on procurements would be taken.Since the new government took over in May last year, the DAC has cleared defence purchases worth over Rs 1.5 lakh...
09:19
Setting a new milestone in social media connectivity, one billion people from around the world flocked to Facebook in a single day, the highest ever.We just passed an important milestone. For the first time ever, one billion people used Facebook in a single day, CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on...
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Sanjeev Khanna, the second husband of Indrani Mukherjea, the prime accused in the Sheena Bora murder case, is expected to be produced before a court in Bandra, Mumbai, on Friday.Mikhail Bora, Sheena's brother, is also expected to join the investigation as a witness in Mumbai.Reports said that all...
09:04
Sanjeev Khanna, the second husband of Indrani Mukherjea, the prime accused in the Sheena Bora murder case, is expected to be produced before a court in Bandra, Mumbai, on Friday.Mikhail Bora, Sheena's brother, is also expected to join the investigation as a witness in Mumbai.Reports said that all...
09:01
Ex-servicemen staging a protest in New Delhi's Jantar Mantar area over the delay in the non-implementation of the one rank, one pension scheme, said on Friday that they will boycott the 50th year commemoration of 1965 Indo-Pak War.We will boycott this (commemoration of the 1965 Indo-Pak War). We...
08:33
Hundreds of people are feared dead after two boats carrying up to 500 migrants capsized off the Libyan city of Zuwara, residents and officials say.The first boat, which signalled for help early on Thursday, had nearly 50 people on board.The second overcrowded boat, which sank much later, had...
08:15
JUST IN: Murder accused Indrani Mukherjea's son Mikhail Bora has left for Mumbai from Guwahati .Mikhail has claimed to have evidence relating to the sensational Sheena Bora murder case. A Mumbai police official had yesterday met Mikhail in Guwahati at his house.
07:59
There were four ceasefire violations in three sectors of Krishnagati, Bhimbhergali and Pallanwala in Poonch, Rajouri and Jammu districts on the intervening night of August 12-13.Last month, there were 19 ceasefire violations in which four persons, including three jawans, were killed and 14 others...
07:59
On August 14, Pakistan troops had resorted to firing with automatic weapons and 82 mm mortar bombs on forward posts and civilian areas in Shahpur Kerni belt of Poonch district.Pakistani troops had also fired on forward posts along the LoC in Balakote belt with automatic, small arms and mortar...
07:58
Earlier this month, five persons, including a teenager were killed and 10 others were wounded in heavy Pakistan shelling in the frontier Poonch district of Jammu region.
07:32
JUST IN: One civilian has been killed while 6 others have been injured after Pakistani troops violated ceasefire by resorting to heavy mortar shelling along the International Border in the RS Pura sector of Jammu.Image: The injured being taken for treatment. Photograph: ANIMore details are awaited.
04:01
It was less than two years ago that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its all-encompassing assessment on the current state of climate change research and made projections for the future climate of our planet.According to the latest from NASA, however, the projections the...
03:49
New words! In the Oxford dictionary! So exciting! If there were only a word to describe just how exciting.Wait, there is ... it's on the list!Awesomesauce!That term, meaning extremely good or excellent, is just one of the couple dozen new words, prhases and acronyms added Thursday to the Oxford...
02:42
Rising more than 6 miles from the seabed floor, Mauna Kea is the tallest summit in the world.To native Hawaiians, the dormant volcano is the most sacred land in the entire Pacific. It is the point where the sky and earth meet. They believe it is the site of the genesis of their people, and it is...
02:39
From round disks to oval clusters; many galaxies in the Universe have undergone a dramatic transformation over the past eight billion years or so, researchers reported today.An international team looked at data on some 10,000 of the billions of galaxies in the observable Universe today, and then...
02:17
US forces have launched airstrikes on a district in southern Afghanistan seized by the Taliban the day before.Afghan army Brig. Gen. Mohammad Rasool Zaizai says NATO and Afghan warplanes struck the army and police headquarters in the Musa Qala district in Helmand province Thursday, likely killing...
01:43
Celebrated physicist Stephen Hawking may have solved the 40-year-old information paradox - which continues to puzzle scientists - saying one could simply pop up in another universe after being sucked into a black hole, in a new theory about where lost information ends up.If you feel you are in a...
01:08
A suspected Taliban militant today blew himself up during a police raid in central Pakistan, killing his own wife and two children, police said.The counterterrorism raid on the house in the town of Pir Mahal triggered a shootout after someone inside began lobbing hand grenades, police official...
01:03
Former head of Pakistan?s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Gen. Hamid Gul, who died recently, has been described in the Indian media as a monster, the originator and perpetrator of terrorism against India. Yet, there is another side to his personality which needs to be disclosed, writes A A...
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Donald Trump said Thursday he is opposed to tightening gun laws in the US but is in favor of addressing mental health to prevent shootings, one day after a man shot two journalists on live television.This isn't a gun problem, this is a mental problem, Trump told CNN's Chris Cuomo on New Day. It's...
00:18
The Palestinians today asked the United Nations to allow their flag to be raised at the world body ahead of next month's meeting of heads of state.The move comes as the Palestinians seek to bolster their bid for statehood despite fierce opposition from Israel.A draft resolution was presented to...
00:16
Saudi King Salman will meet with President Barack Obama early next month during his first visit to the United States since acceding the throne, the White House said today.The president will host the king of Saudi Arabia at the White House on Friday, September 4th, Obama's spokesman Josh Earnest...
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We have 'fair idea' of motive behind Sheena's murder: Rakesh MariaOROP row: No headway yet; two more veterans moved to hospitalNow Peter says Sheena told him she is Indrani's daughterLatest updates in the Sheena Bora murder caseCops out to plug gaps in Sheena Bora murder saga
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