Five policemen were killed and 20 others were injured on Wednesday in a suicide attack outside a police station in a busy area in Lahore that was crowded with people celebrating on the eve of the country's independence day. The suicide bomber blew himself up outside a police station near Moon Market, one of the largest bazars in the posh Allama Iqbal Town locality, officials said.
Putting months of speculations to an end, Telugu super star Chiranjeevi finally took the first step towards launching his own political party by inaugurating his party's office in the posh Jubilee Hills area of Hyderabad. But both the timing and the manner of inauguration were unusual. In accordance with the mahurtam set by the pundits and astrologers, the star formally inaugurated the new office at 12.20 am. The media was kept away from the ceremony.
Nearly a year after he killed security guard Chandrabose with his Hummer jeep, justice caught up with controversial beedi tycoon Mohammed Nisham on Wednesday.
Like the wealthy anywhere else, affluent Indians love to buy luxurious cars, clothes, and accessories. They also want exceptional service.
"The flushing-out operations at these hotels, being undertaken jointly with National Security Guards, may be over sooner than expected were it not for our endeavour to ensure that there is no collateral damage," the sources said
A Delhi court on Friday issued summons against real estate barons Sushil and Gopal Ansal besides four others for allegedly tampering with evidence in the Uphaar fire tragedy case.
The veteran actress is shooting for Abhishek Kapoor's Fitoor.
The government withdraws army from the university as demanded by agitators
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It seems the Bangalore real estate bubble has burst. The city, which saw some unrealistic rise in property prices in the past few years, has witnessed a sharp drop this year. A survey conducted by a real estate firm corroborates this. Real estate company Asipac states that real estate prices in the city have dropped by at least 10 to 20 per cent in the past one year.
Gangster Aziz Reddy alias Baba Reddy was shot dead by the Hyderabad police in the posh Jubilee hills area of the city on Wednesday night. As the policemen closed in on the gang, Reddy and his associates tried to flee. The police asked them to surrender, but Reddy started firing at the police. The police returned the fire and Reddy was killed in the ensuing shootout.The police commissioner said that Reddy was a close associate of Mumbai's underworld don Chhota Rajan.
It said the sleuths have recovered Rs 14.6 crore of "unaccounted" cash and seized diaries and computer files of suspect payments made between Madhya Pradesh and Delhi.
While Delhi boasts of one of the best metro systems in the world and decent infrastructure, reckless construction, legalising unauthorised colonies, and the worsening water and air quality dent its image of being a robust cosmopolitan city.
The BJP MP's aide claimed that he had been tricked into attending the event, while the organiser claimed that it was not a nightclub, but a restaurant where no liquor would be served.
Across Yes Bank branches, the busiest people were the relationship managers, trying to soothe nerves. Many were seen advising clients the situation was only temporary and that their money was safe.
India has been arguing that tax cannot be levied as the diplomatic staff, who occupy the apartments, are exempted from tax, but US District Court Judge Jed S Rakoff ruled Monday that under Vienna conventions, only the residence of head of the mission is exempted. The Indian Ambassador to the United Nations has a residence in a nearby building in Manhattan and the residential apartments in the Mission building are occupied by the junior diplomatic staff.
Yet another live bomb was on Sunday found in the posh Atwalines area in Surat, taking the total number of explosive devices detected in the diamond city to 24, the police said. The bomb, which was found inside a bag near a bus-stand adjacent to the municipal garden (commonly known as Chowpati), was defused by the bomb disposal squad, they said.
In September 2014, the Jammu and Kashmir region suffered disastrous floods caused by heavy rainfall. Nearly 300 people died in the floods and many more lost their homes and livelihood. Mukhtar Ahmad/Rediff.com reports.
A multi-storeyed historic guest house in posh Malabar hill was pulled down in Mumbai on Monday by a modern implosion technique employed for the first time in this metropolis.
The Mirwaiz said that the attack was the 'handiwork of forces who were opposed to peace in Kashmir.'
One of Lutyens' Delhi's much sought after addresses, 1 Prithviraj Road, is being put up for sale. Anil Thadani, the founder of private investment advisory firm Schroder Capital Partners, is the owner of the property, which is just under one acre. Sources told Business Standard that the property was being valued at Rs 60-80 crore (Rs 600-800 million).
Seven persons were killed and 27 injured when an under-construction building came crashing down in the posh Civil Lines locality in Allahabad early on Wednesday morning.
Khan Mohammad Cassumbhoy Ibrahim, who played four Tests for India against the West Indies in 1948-49 at home and opened the innings with Vinoo Mankad, passed away in Karachi at the age of 88 after a prolonged illness.
Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Brinda Karat on Wednesday attacked Karnataka minister G Parameshwara over his objectionable remarks after women were molested en masse in Bengaluru, saying he has no right to continue in office after the "reprehensible" statement.
Crime Branch sleuths raided a multimedia shop in posh Dhantoli area and seized pirated software CDs and other material worth Rs 1 crore (Rs 10 million), police said on Wednesday.
A look at pictures from Shashi Kapoor's annual Christmas brunch.
Hitting back at Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah for his dynastic politics jibe, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday termed it as "hypocrisy," saying the party should first "lecture" its friends in Maharashtra and Punjab.
A large number of traders of Delhi went on a 24-hour strike on Friday as the Supreme Court-ordered sealing of illegal commercial establishments in residential areas continued in the city.
The civic body resumed its controversial sealing drive on Wednesday, a day after the Supreme Court-appointed monitoring committee decided to go ahead with the operations, despite protests from traders.
Jhanvi Kapoor's mother talks from Srinagar.
Around 70 per cent of the women also said that they were afraid to walk on the streets after dark as it was highly unsafe.
Aishwarya Rai's Mumbai residence is lit up beautifully.
"The government has identified the masterminds of the two attacks, they will be exposed to justice," Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said.
The police said there is evidence to prove the brothers tampered with judicial records. The issue also came up before the Delhi high court with the police claiming to have got hold of substantial evidence against Sushil and Gopal Ansal and four others for tampering with the records of the fire that claimed 59 lives in the posh south Delhi cinema hall in 1997.
A young woman producer of a news channel was shot dead in the early hours of Tuesday at a posh area of south-west Delhi while she was on her way back from work.
The Worli-Nariman Point sea link would connect to Marine Drive, destroying the beauty for which it is known
The court also refused to suspend the conviction in the case until the appeals were decided.
He is reportedly undergoing a four-day exercise with the 3rd Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles in the Brecon Beacons, Wales.
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