Nitish Kumar had a week's time to prove his majority, but Laloo Yadav made full use of Siwan don Mohammad Shahabuddin. A revealing excerpt from Rajesh Singh's Baahubalis Of Indian Politics: From Bullet To Ballot.
Justice Jagdeep Singh read out the verdict as soon as the special CBI Court began the hearing on the case on Friday.
The accident occurred around 5.45 pm near Khatauli town, 40 km off Muzaffarnagar, leaving 23 people dead, the Uttar Pradesh police said.
Many of the passengers were bound for outstation areas like Itanagar, Dimapur and Aizwal, and were left with no option but to wait endlessly at airport premises.
Police sources said that Raju Kumar, a vendor selling gutka , was thrown out of the train after he refused to give free gutka to the two men.. "The RPF men had tried to snatch the gutka from Raju, who resisted. This angered them and they pushed him out of the running train," police sources told rediff.com.
One of the two constables on the run after allegedly raping a minor inside a police station premises in Badaun was arrested in Bareilly on Tuesday when he was about to board a Delhi-bound train and subsequently sent to judicial custody for 14 days.
Giving this information at Chandigarh, a government spokesman said that more companies of the paramilitary forces have been demanded by the state.
Jahan Singh and Karamveer were arrested on Friday after the 35-year-old woman lodged a complaint at the Sarai Rohilla police station in north Delhi, police sources said.
the India Meteorological Department has forecast intermittent rain with heavy to very heavy showers in the city and suburbs and extremely heavy rain at isolated places in next 24 hours.
The situation on Tuesday remained tense in some parts of Jat dominated areas like Rohtak and Sonipat while curfew was lifted in Jind district.
Maharashtra Police found over 300 migrant workers holed up inside two container trucks meant for carrying essential commodities from Telangana to Rajasthan.
Shannu Khatun, 35, is a beggar who has to earn a living for her family including her physically challenged husband, eight-year-old daughter and twin sons. She sold one of her sons for Rs 62 to a Nepalese couple at Forbesganj Railway Station.
Special Task Force of UP Police gunned down Naushad Qureshi, hailing from Bihar and with a cash reward of Rs 20,000 on his head.
In a major breakthrough in China's worst terrorist attack at the Kunming railway station, police on Monday captured three militants from the restive Xinjiang province who fled the scene of slashing rampage that killed 33 people and injured 143 others.
Beginning with the bird's eye view of itself -- a narrow state of hills, rivers and high population density, in a tapering part of the Indian subcontinent. It can be a beautiful place shaped by aesthetic founded in appropriate lifestyle and progressive views, or a junkyard shaped by money and what money buys. The choice is Kerala's, notes Shyam G Menon.
Rediff.com brings you images of struggle and hope as migrants attempt to reach European countries.
'If we want to ensure this isn't a once-in-four-decade phenomenon, then we have to produce 1,800 players all the time, create infrastructure, so that we are constantly challenging at the top of the ladder.'
CM announced Rs 5 lakh ex gratia for the next of kin of the deceased and free treatment for the injured.
Rediff.com captures the mood among the people at Elphinstine Road railway station, a week after 23 people died in a stampede at a footover bridge.
The three districts are among over a dozen in the state that were lashed by incessant rain for close to 48 hours bringing normal business to a grinding halt and disrupting rail and road traffic in most places.
National Disaster Response Force personnel left the spot, while State Disaster Management Department personnel continued their rescue work at the accident site with cranes, earth movers and drilling machines.
The Mumbai civic body asked all schools to remain shut and to ensure that the students were sent back home safely.
Long queues outside grocery stores, inflated prices, difficulty in getting important items -- these were some of the problems encountered by people in the National Capital Region (NCR).
China is spending billions of dollars to improve infrastructure in Tibet and other parts of its border with India. Claude Arpi explains why New Delhi can't afford to ignore Beijing's plans.
Police question Asma Khatoon and her father following the three day old's death.
Recalling the blasts that shook Varanasi in March 2006
The state government will review the lockdown situation in Guwahati after seven days from the enforcement of the restrictions.
The ISI network of spies has been operating in India for over a decade.
Clashes between BJP supporters and Congress workers marred the last leg of his visit.
The hectic legal proceedings in the Danish woman gangrape case on Thursday took the prosecution by surprise, as the victim who supported the case in the trial court turned hostile in the Juvenile Justice Board where she failed to identify the three minor offenders.
The MeT department warned of heavy to very heavy rainfall in Gangetic West Bengal till Saturday, ahead of Durga Puja festivities.
Jillu Yadav, a police constable attached to the Railway Protection Force, was among the 26/11 heroes and survivors invited to meet President Obama at the Taj Mahal hotel.
Want to live in Maharashtra, follow these eight rules or get jailed. Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com on the proposed Maharashtra Protection of Internal Security Act.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Monday
The national capital received heavy precipitation resulting in waterlogging on several roads and traffic jams at various intersections.
The victim, Vikram, was selling samosas on the Hyderabad-Warangal train.
As fuel prices continue its northward march with petrol and diesel being sold at Rs 80.73 and Rs 72.83 per litre in the national capital, at least 21 opposition parties, led by the Congress have staged a Bharat Bandh protesting the rise in fuel prices and depreciation of the rupee.
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