Former Egypt President Morsi sentenced to 40 years of imprisonment
File Pic Egypt/Nagpur: Egypt's toppled Islamist President Mohamed Morsi was on Saturday sentenced to life imprisonment by a court for passing state secrets to Qatar. The court also upheld death sentences given to six Muslim Brotherhood members in the same case...
Mamta Kulkarni now an accused in India’s biggest ever drug seizure
Mumbai/Nagpur: In a major breakthrough, Thane Police today named former Bollywood actor Mamta Kulkarni as an accused in India's biggest ever drug racket which was busted two months ago. Mamta is likely to face a Red Corner Notice by the Interpol. Earlier,...
Acid attack on college teacher in Bhopal
Bhopal/Nagpur: A college teacher was on Saturday seriously injured after two bike-borne assailants allegedly threw acid on her in front of her house in Bhopal's posh Arera Colony area while she was on her way to the college, police said. The...
Srinagar hostel warden thrashes 16 girls for not cleaning her room
Representational Pic Srinagar/Nagpur: Sixteen girls of a government-run school were allegedly beaten up by the warden of their hostel at Rajbagh in Srinagar for "refusing to clean her room", following which the authorities put her under suspension. "The students, belonging to...
30 who were protesting against ‘Udta Punjab’ arrested in Ludhiana
Ludhiana/Nagpur: Udta Punjab, the drug-themed Bollywood film that was embroiled in a censorship row and multiple legal battles, was released across the country today as scheduled without any incident being reported, barring protests by Shiv Sena activists in Ludhiana. Police took...
Gulberg verdict: SIT to approach HC on ‘lenient’ sentencing
File Pic New Delhi/Nagpur: Special Investigation Team counsel in the 2002 Gulberg massacre case, R C Kodekar today expressed dissatisfaction about court's verdict in the case and announced to approach the high court, as he felt the sentence was too...
EgyptAir crash: Second black box ‘recovered’
Representational Pic Cario/Nagpur: The flight data recorder from the EgyptAir plane that crashed in the Mediterranean Sea last month has been retrieved, Egyptian investigators say. The news comes a day after search teams recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the wreckage...
Kanha tigress found dead in suspected territorial fight
Madhya Pradesh/Nagpur: A tigress was killed in the Soopkhar range of the famous Kanha Tiger Reserve in a suspected territorial fight with another feline, a forest official said on Friday. The carcass of the tigress, aged between seven and nine years,...
Tomato price rise temporary, rates fall in Delhi: Govt
File Pic New Delhi/Nagpur: Rise in tomato prices is a "temporary phenomenon" and rates in the national capital region have started to cool down with increase in supply from Himachal Pradesh and Haryana, a top Agriculture Ministry official said today. Wholesale...
Gulberg verdict: This is not justice, my battle continues, says Zakia Jafri
New Delhi/Nagpur: Voicing dissatisfaction over the court verdict in the Gulberg massacre case, Zakia Jafri, the wife of slain Congress leader Ehsan Jafri, today said life sentence should have been awarded to all the convicts. However, her son Tanvi Jafri...
Rs 2 lakh to anyone who bought tea from Modi: Digvijaya Singh
Congress leader Digvijaya Singh today promised a Rs 2 lakh reward to anyone who bought tea from Prime Minister Narendra Modi or studied with him. Addressing a party-organised protest rally of farmers, titled 'chai ki charcha' here, he said if anyone...
Feb 9 event: JNU forms panel to hear appeals of penalised students
New Delhi/Nagpur: A month after the Delhi high court stayed the punishment to Jawaharlal Nehru University students in connection with the controversial February 9 event, the university today formed a four-member committee to hear appeals of those who had been...
MHA cancels licence of Sabrang Trust run by Modi-baiter Teesta Setalvad
New Delhi/Nagpur: MHA cancels the registration of Teesta Setalvad's NGO- Sabrang Trust. In September, the Home Ministry suspended the registration of Sabrang Trust for six months for alleged violation of Foreign Currency (Regulation) Act (FCRA) that invites termination of its license. In...
Sena leader, chamcha slap bank employee in Yavatmal
Yavatmal/Nagpur: In a shocking incident, Shiv Sena leader Praveen Shinde and another Sainik slapped a bank employee in Yavatmal (Maharashtra). The incident was caught on camera. In the video, Shinde and his friend are seen slapping and abusing the bank...
Don’t interfere, BJP raps Shatrughan for praising Varun Gandhi
New Delhi/Nagpur: After BJP leader and Patna Sahib MP Shatrughan Sinha on Sunday backed Sultanpur MP Varun Gandhi as party's face for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections due next year, the party has asked him politely, to keep out of...
Supreme Court declines to hear NGO plea to halt screening of ‘Udta Punjab’
File Pic New Delhi/Nagpur: The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to hear a plea by Punjab-based NGO Human Rights Awareness Association to halt the screening of the film Udta Punjab and asked it to approach the Punjab and Haryana High...
‘Aunty National’ Smriti Irani’s ‘Jerry Maguire’ moment on FB
File Pic Days after her Twitter spat and the massive lampooning she received on social media, Union HRD minister Smriti Irani vents on Facebook. Irani had been Twitter fodder after her snarky tweets to Dr Ashok Choudhary, the Bihar Congress president,...
Udta Punjab leaked online with ‘For Censor’ stamp; CBFC’s hand suspected
As the Censor controversy calmed down for Udta Punjab another big trouble erupted for the movie as now it is dashed out online freely even before the movie's theatrical release! Now who is to blame for this? How the print has...
AAP spokesperson Alka Lamba suspended for not towing party line
New Delhi: Delhi's ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has removed Alka Lamba as its spokesperson, reportedly for straying from the party line on a minister accused of corruption, reports NDTV. AAP acted hours after Lamba told reporters that Gopal Rai, who...
Sensex dives 200 points on weak Asian cues
Mumbai: The Sensex fell over 200 points, while the broader Nifty50 dipped below its key 8,150-mark. The headline indices slipped tracking negative trend seen in Asian markets after US Federal Reserve and Japan's central bank kept their respective monetary policies...
Kerala student’s rape, murder: Cops make first arrest
Ernakulam: The police have identified and arrested the main suspect in the rape and murder of a Kerala law student, which had rocked the state in April. According to local police, the woman, a 30-year-old law student, hailing from a...
