The team of DNA experts from Hyderabad, who arrived in Mangalore on Sunday morning to help in identifying the bodies of the Air India plane crash, has its task cut out. The team will stay in the coastal town till each victim's body is identified. Most of the bodies have been charred beyond recognition in the plane crash.A dispute has broken out between the families of Rajendra Ramesh and John Mampilly, both of whom have staked claim for the same body.
The mother of the minor in the Porsche car accident case was arrested after confirmation that his blood samples were replaced with hers, Pune police chief Amitesh Kumar said on Saturday.
The Hyderabad-based Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics Analysis concluded that the biological fluid (semen) present on the sanitary pad of the victim was that of Rahul, the prime accused.
The devastating collision, involving two passenger trains and a freight train, took the lives of at least 275 people and caused injuries to over 1100 others in Balasore. This tragic incident has had a profound impact across India.
Sixty years after Nobel Prize winning scientist Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA, his family is offering the coveted medal for sale at an auction in New York.
Blood samples collected from 31 Assam Rifles personnel have been sent for testing. Two AR personnel are yet to give their samples.
Congress leader N D Tiwari told the Delhi High Court that its order asking him to undergo DNA test, on a suit filed by a young man claiming to be his biological son, was "erroneous" as his mother's marriage with her husband was subsisting at the time of his birth.
In an apparent dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his DNA remark on Nitish Kumar, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said everyone should watch 'Manjhi' film to know the type of DNA Bihar is made of.
The study also examined whether chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery, which generate dying cancer cells, could contribute to cancer's metastatic spread.
She claimed that officials haven't given her any deadline when she will get the body.
The police on Tuesday exhumed the body of the victim of the alleged fake encounter in Poonch district and took samples for a DNA test to ascertain his identity. After the approval of the district administration, the body of the August 7 encounter victim was dug out in Surankote belt of Poonch district, in the presence of Additional Superintendent of Police Yougal Manhas, Magistrate (Tehsildar) Nisar Ahmed Khan and other officials on Tuesday afternoon, said the police.
The Kerala high court on Friday upheld a lower court order allowing police to conduct a DNA test on Alwar rape convict Bitti Mohanty, who jumped parole and was arrested after five years from Kannur district.
'You cannot win an election without putting together a massive war chest.' 'It is impossible to put a war chest together, without giving and taking favours from India Inc, with a large dose of extortion thrown in,' says Devangshu Datta.
Enthused by the prospect of mid-term polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday sought to puncture the Congress' stability plank and said it was not in the ruling party's DNA to run a coalition government. Ridiculing efforts by the Congress and the Left to end the nuclear stalemate, the saffron party said that the quarrelsome partners have paralysed governance and the nation is tired and fatigued by the "farce and misadventure called the United Progressive Alliance."
As Election 2024 hurtles towards result day in a medley of mangalsutra, mujra, mutton, machli and other barbs, these may sound like character names from Hindi comics of yore. Instead, these are the mocking, sometimes vicious monikers given by political rivals to each other.
Richardson also took aim at players claiming confusion over ball-tampering rules, saying the laws were clear and their complaints "disingenuous" in a speech at the MCC's Colin Cowdrey Lecture at Lord's.
"The party will try to connect with these voters by organising 'Sneh Milan: Ek Desh, Ek DNA Sammelan' in various West Uttar Pradesh districts," he said, adding these conferences would start after Eid next month and the first convention will be held in Muzaffarnagar.
Singh Lakshman Meena, 33, a research scientist at the University of Central Florida, is also accused of taking disks with research information in them.
A day after they claimed that a nine-year-old Sikh boy found abandoned in a London bus stop last week was their son Shintu, the parents have sought a DNA test to confirm their claim. "We want a DNA test because we are sure that it was our son," Shintu's father Ganga Prasad told rediff.com over telephone from Aurangabad on Wednesday.
Zee Entertainment on Friday said it has "pruned" its Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC) by about 50 per cent following the guidance of a special committee, which had conducted a critical assessment of its several business verticals. The MD & CEO has pruned TIC staff strength by 50 per cent to achieve a cost-effective structure, a Bengaluru-based business vertical of the company that offers technology solutions, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) said in an official statement.
Claiming that Bahujan Samaj Party legislator Purshottam Naresh Dwiwedi was 'physically unable' to commit rape, his wife Asha on Thursday demanded DNA and medical test to prove his involvement in the assault on a Dalit teenager in Banda.
Three tourists from Bangladesh were charred to death in a major blaze in a houseboat on the famous Dal Lake on Saturday, officials in Srinagar said.
Gulshan, along with her husband Mohammad Nasiruddin and two small children, has been travelling a distance of 95 km from her house in Pilkhuwa in Uttar Pradesh to Delhi every day since last week to find her dead father's remains
Recent media reports have alleged that the DNA of the six-month-old foetus of the slain poetess had matched with that of the former minister's.
The team set up by Pakistan to probe the Pathankot attack on Friday decided to seek from India the DNA reports and finger prints of the slain terrorists.
A team of experts arrived in Mangalore on Sunday morning from Hyderabad to conduct DNA tests to help in identification of bodies charred beyond recognition in the Air India Express plane crash
With 81 badly charred bodies of the Air India flight crash yet to be identified, authorities have decided to conduct DNA test on Sunday.
Polling is scheduled in all 20 seats of Kerala, 14 of the 28 seats in Karnataka, 13 seats in Rajasthan, eight seats each in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, six seats in Madhya Pradesh, five seats each in Assam and Bihar, three seats each in Chhattisgarh and West Bengal, and one seat each in Manipur, Tripura and Jammu and Kashmir.
Maninderpal Singh Kohli allegedly raped and killed 17-year-old Hannah Foster in Southampton in March last year.
The war of words between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar escalated on Monday with the latter tweeting that "50 lakh people" from Bihar would send their DNA samples for testing to the prime minister.
"At this age of mine and unblemished public record for approximately 70 years to this nation I rely on Supreme Court judgments and feel protected against any compulsion for the DNA test," 87-year-old Tiwari said in his affidavit before the Delhi High Court.
As most of the victims were charred beyond recognition after the bus caught fire in the early hours of Saturday, efforts were made to convince their families for mass cremation of the bodies instead of their DNA analysis, the official said.
'The message they want to send to the country is that they can do anything by hook or crook'
All citizens of the United Kingdom and every visitor to the country should be included in the national DNA database, said a senior judge.
The Delhi high court on Friday rejected veteran Congress leader N D Tiwari's plea to keep his DNA report secret and hold an in-camera hearing of a paternity suit against him.
'This might prove to be a temporary gain for the BJP, but at a huge cost to the people of Gujarat and democracy in India.'
"We have submitted a list of 38 missing children along with their FIRs to the CBI for their consideration and further investigation," said Padmini Kumar, a social worker representing the parents of missing children.
Asked about the BJP's claim that its performance in southern states will be exemplary, Tharoor said, "The claim of an 'exemplary' performance is yet another product of the BJP's propaganda mill."
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