With the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha announcing its decision to withdraw support to Arjun Munda-led Bharatiya Janata Party government in Jharkhand, the prospect of a ninth government in 12 years is looming large over the state created on November 15, 2000.
The designated judge hearing the Naroda Gaam rioting case of 2002 today reserved order on an application seeking her recusal from the case. Jyotsna Yagnik, who had earlier conducted trial in the Naroda Patiya massacre case and now also assigned the Naroda Gaam rioting case, on Monday decided to pronounce her order in the matter on January 11.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Monday told a Delhi court that a complaint seeking registration of case against the prime minister and former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran in the 2G spectrum scam does not require registration of any firszt information report.
A 16-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped by three youths in this Odisha district after which she attempted suicide by setting herself on fire, police said on Monday.
Broadcasting Standards Authority has asked electronic media not to show visuals or details which could 're-traumatise' the victims or reveal their identities.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda and his wife Datty on Monday appeared before the Lokayukta court here in connection with a complaint filed against them alleging that they had obtained sites through illegal allotment.
The school principal of the juvenile accused in the December 16 gangrape-cum-murder case on Monday appeared before the Juvenile Justice Board in response to its summons to help determine his exact age.
Plummeting mercury, coupled with thick fog cover, threw normal life out of gear in the entire north India on Monday, with 24 more people succumbing to the chill in various parts of the region.
Ajmal Kasab, the face of the dastardly 26/11 terror strike on Mumbai who was hanged on November 21, had begged for 'daya' (mercy) from the President through his four-line clemency plea written in elementary Urdu, which was rejected.
The proceedings in the case of gangrape and murder of the 23-year-old girl in a bus in Delhi will be held in camera, a local court on Monday ordered after the five accused were produced before it.
In a fresh trouble for Non-Resident Indian beautician Nooriya Haveliwala, the Maharashtra government on Friday moved the Bombay high court seeking enhancement of punishment awarded to her for drunken driving and culpable homicide.
Breaking his silence, the male friend of the Delhi gangrape victim tonight severely criticised the Delhi police for its tardy response and bemoaned public apathy after both of them had been badly injured and thrown out of the bus after she was gangraped by six men.
The Delhi police on Friday night decided to register a case against Zee News after the channel aired an interview with the male friend of a Delhi girl who was gangraped here three weeks ago, a crime to which he is the lone witness.
Amid growing clamour for enhanced punishment to perpetrators of the Delhi gangrape, Congress today underlined the need for a re-look at the Juvenile Act as one of the accused in the case is a minor.
The Kerala police's cyber wing has begun a probe into the uploading of the photograph of an engineering student from the state on a social networking site claiming it as the picture of the Delhi gang-rape victim.
Several charges, including that of murder which carries death penalty, were on Thursday filed against all the five adult accused in the gangrape case in which a 23-year-old Delhi girl lost her life, prompting nationwide protests recently.
A day after her mortal remains were consigned to flames, ashes of the Delhi gangrape victim, who emerged as an epitome of woman's pride during her 13-day battle for life, were brought to her ancestral village by the family.
The Delhi police on Monday registered a case against an English daily for publishing material which could lead to the identification of the 23-year-old gangrape victim who died two days ago.
The Delhi government on announced financial aid of Rs 15 lakh and a job to the family of the 23-year-old gangrape victim who died two days ago. The decisions were taken at a Cabinet meeting presided over by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.
Promising swift and fitting punishment for the Delhi gang-rape accused, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Saturday said the nation's 'beloved daughter' will get justice and her fight will not go in vain.
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