A local court on Friday allowed the petition of police to take the voice sample of jailed All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen legislator Akbaruddin Owaisi, who is facing sedition charges for his alleged 'hate speech' against a particular community.
A panel, set up to probe alleged non-responsive behaviour of Police Control Room vans in helping the Delhi gang-rape victim, is learnt to have found fault in the police's response to the distress call and also failure to stop the bus from plying after being fined several times.
In the light of Friday's Supreme Court ruling, the two Italian marines, facing murder charges in Kerala for shooting to death two fishermen off Alappuzha coast, left for New Delhi by an Air India flight.
The Delhi police has registered a case against Zee News for allegedly showing forged annexure of a CAG report on coal block allocation, a charge dismissed by the channel as a 'figment of imagination, mala fide and oppressive'.
A Pakistani provincial legislator and three of his bodyguards were shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Karachi on Thursday.
Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare on Wednesday announced that he will undertake a nationwide tour from January 30 from Bihar for strengthening farmer organisations.
In the wake of last month's brutal gang-rape of a student in a moving bus, a Parliamentary Committee is in favour of bringing Delhi traffic police under the city government as it feels criminals take advantage of multiplicity of authorities.
With the deadline for the Centre's decision on the vexatious Telangana statehood issue approaching fast, the war of words between leaders of Telangana and Andhra-Rayalaseema regions has escalated.
In a bizarre incident that seems straight out of a movie, a 20-year-old cleaner girl in Sweden on Tuesday stole an empty commuter train and drove it straight into an apartment building suffering severe injuries.
Backing Assistant Commissioner of police Vasant Dhoble, who was shunted out from his Vakola posting amid protests over the death of a hawker during eviction drive, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on Tuesday warned hawkers against holding a rally at Azad Maidan on January 24.
The company on Monday said, in a communication to the stock exchanges, that it had terminated an agreement it had with the National Highways Authority of India.
A teenager was stabbed to death allegedly by a 60-year-old man following an argument at the ticket counter of a cinema hall in Mumbai on Monday, the police said.
Amid outrage over the beheading of a soldier at LoC, Shiv Sena on Monday stepped up the attack on the United Progressive Alliance government, saying 'patriots have no value' under the Congress rule and demanded snapping of sporting ties with Pakistan.
Notwithstanding Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh's tough talk on Pakistan on the recent ceasefire violations on the LoC, the government on Monday said it will try its best to ensure that the peace process was not derailed.
10 heads from the other side, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swaraj said on Monday and asked the Centre to take tough action against that country.
Keeping in mind the sensitivities involved, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry on Friday asked a private channel not to telecast an episode in its crime-based show which featured an enactment based on the Delhi gang-rape.
Keeping in mind the sensitivities involved, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry on Friday asked a private channel not to telecast an episode in its crime-based show which featured an enactment based on the Delhi gang-rape.
The United States on Friday cautioned its citizens in Pakistan to keep a low profile and avoid large gatherings ahead of a planned rally by cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri, who has been pressuring the government to carry our electoral reforms.
The bus driver charged in the gangrape-cum-murder of a 23-year-old girl had appeared on a TV show in 2009 anchored by former Indian Police Service officer Kiran Bedi.
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