Singh and another accused in the case -- Irfan Shafi Mir -- were granted the relief by the court in a case filed by special cell of Delhi Police, noting that the probe agency failed to file chargesheet within 90 days from his arrest, as prescribed under law.
Shoukath Shakeel, a tea vendor, is the latest entry into the alleged terror scenario in Karnataka. He has given the police vital clues about the various meetings held by terror suspects in the state. Shakeel, who dropped out of school before completing his 10th standard, used to serve food and tea whenever meetings used to take place at the terror camp. Besides this, he also used to double as an electrician.
The Hyderabad city police has arrested Mohammed Abdul Majid, brother of city bomb blasts mastermind and Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami south India chief Shahid alias Bilal, and his childhood friend Mohammed Shakeel, on charges of criminal conspiracy.
The deceased has been identified as Siraj, he said.
A little over 22 years after 12 coordinated blasts rocked Mumbai, killing 257 people and injuring over 700, the lone convict on death row in the case -- Yakub Abdul Razak Memon -- was hanged after the Supreme Court on Thursday morning rejected his petition seeking stay of execution
Hrithik Roshan, Salman Khan and Shilpa Shetty were among the nine top film stars who were questioned by the Mumbai police in connection with a case involving an aide of underworld don Chhota Shakeel.
India is now getting ready for the next step, using broadband connectivity to take education and healthcare to the villages, says IT and Telecommmunications Minister Shakeel Ahmad.
The court also extended the custody of Iqbal, Mushtaq and Mir till April 10 on a plea by the police. The Delhi Police said that the accused were required to be interrogated further to identify the other persons involved. "The custody was required to ascertain the identity of other handlers," the police told the court.
Sukanya Verma presents a playlist of 100 Lata Mangeshkar songs from different decades of Hindi films -- songs that make me sing, smile, sob and sigh.
Covid deaths at home, on the way to hospital or in private centres are not being counted in Bihar's official list of dead.
Their New Year's Eve looks like a lot of fun!
Sukanya Verma lists her favourite songs of the year.
An undertrial was killed and four policemen escorting him to Baramulla district jail were injured in a grenade attack by militants in Srinagar on Wedensday.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi Wednesday held consultations with senior party leaders, including A K Antony, as talks for an alliance with Jharkhand Mukti Morcha for the next Lok Sabha polls and formation of a coalition government in Jharkhand reached the final stage.
The Delhi police had on Tuesday clamped restrictions on the gathering of four or more people under Section 144 of Code of Criminal Procedure in a bid to check violent clashes which has also left more than 200 injured.
The spot-fixing scandal in the Indian Premier League turned murkier with the names of global terrorist and India's most wanted man Dawood Ibrahim and his close aide Chotta Shakeel surfacing in the case.
Rashid Alvi was dropped as the Congress spokesperson with the All India Congress Committee on Sunday bringing in a new team of eight spokespersons, retaining existing three and inducting five fresh faces.
Pictures from a fun celebratiobn.
Better known as Sunny Dewan, Sarang -- and his wife Anu -- have been regulars at Bollywood parties. Namrata Thakker takes a look at the couple's social calendar from their good ol' days.
As a divided Union Cabinet shunned the ordinance route on the food bill issue, Congress said no option is ruled out over the legislation, though it would "prefer" its passage by Parliament.
Salman celebrates Eid with family and friends.
The invoking of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act in the spot-fixing case has taken it a step closer to terrorism, reports Vicky Nanjappa
Audio intercepts of telephone calls was played by the Delhi police, on Tuesday, in a Delhi court to buttress its claim about the nexus between underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and bookies in the IPL spot-fixing scandal.
The court extended the judicial custody of pacer S Sreesanth and 22 others in the IPL spot fixing case till June 18 after Delhi Police informed it has invoked MCOCA provisions against them.
That most newsrooms, high on the 'exclusive' interview with a fugitive living overseas, are not able to perceive this distrust is a reflection of the disconnect today's media has with reality
Rizwan Kaskar, the son of Ibrahim's brother Iqbal Kaskar, was arrested on Wednesday night from the international airport when he was trying to escape the country.
Congress party on Wednesday distanced itself from party leader Shakeel Ahmed's remarks -- that the blast near Bharatiya Janata Party's office in Bangalore will help the Opposition party politically -- and said it does not view the problem of terrorism in terms of political benefit or loss.
In comments that are likely to stoke a controversy, Congress leader Shakeel Ahmed on Wednesday said the blast near Bharatiya Janata Party's office in Bangalore will certainly help the opposition party politically on the eve of election.
Congress on Friday distanced itself from Union Minister Jairam Ramesh's remarks that Narendra Modi poses a challenge to the party saying it was his personal view.
Mahira makes the most of her debut on the French Riviera.
A special trial court in Gujarat on Friday acquitted all six accused in the 2002 post-Godhra riots case in which three British nationals and their Indian driver were killed at Prantij town in Gujarat's Sabarkantha district, for want of evidence against them.
Rejecting Nitish Kumar's charge that Bihar was being discriminated against and ignored by the United Progressive Alliance government, Congress said nobody should play politics on the issue of special status to the state.
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The Congress will not participate in the exit poll programmes scheduled to be telecast by several news channels on Monday evening.
"If I had any link with him, I would not have been here. I would have been in Dubai or some other place. If I had known people like him, I would not have been cricketer," said Sreesanth on Sunday.
The actor was involved in a brawl with a South Africa-based businessman in February this year.
Major Anuj Sood, scholar and daredevil soldier, had finished his Kashmir tenure and would have been home had COVID-19 not come in the way. He did not live to be old enough, but he lived the soldier's life to the fullest, reveals Archana Masih/Rediff.com.
