The Delhi high court on Monday refused to stay an order of a trial court directing Indian Medical Association (IMA) president J A Jayalal not to use the organisation's platform to propagate any religion and cautioning him that loose comments cannot be expected from a person chairing the responsible post.
A senior police officer was among the 12 people killed when a bomb went off near a police vehicle in Pakistan's troubled northwest on Tuesday. The bomb, believed to be hidden in a rickshaw, exploded as the police van passed through an area on the outskirts of Dera Ismail Khan city in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa province, TV news channels quoted police sources and witnesses as saying. Over 10 others were also injured in the blast.
'I am convinced. I have no doubt about it. I was very open. I have given the full details. If the interior minister of India or anyone else wants to confront me, I will be very happy to confront them because I know what I am saying.'
At least 18 people, including women and children, were killed and six others injured when a bus struck a landmine in Pakistan's restive Mohmand tribal region on Friday.The incident occurred in Lakaro sub-division, a remote region of Mohmand Agency, where security forces are conducting operations against militants. The bus was carrying a group of people, who were on their way to attend a wedding, TV news channels reported. Four women were among the six persons injured.
Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Malik has reportedly demanded a whopping Rs 35 million for the rights to cover his reception and walima ceremony in his hometown Sialkot after his wedding to Indian tennis star Sania Mirza.
'Mazhab nahi sikhata apas mein bair rakhna,' a Delhi court said while directing Indian Medical Association president J A Jayalal not to use the organisation's platform to propagate any religion, and cautioned him that loose comments cannot be expected from a person chairing the responsible post.
Pakistan on Saturday said India appears to be "hesitating" over the resumption of the stalled peace process due to its "internal political situation" and insisted that dialogue is the only way forward for the two countries.
In a major catch, Pakistani Taliban's top spokesman Maulvi Omar has been arrested along with his two associates in the lawless tribal region bordering Afghanistan, reports said on Tuesday.
Bihar's ruling Janata Dal-United has issued a show cause notice to Member of Legislative Assembly from Ziradei constituency, Shyam Bahadur Singh, who danced with half a dozen bar dancers at his official residence in Patna last week to entertain participants of a Mahadalit rally.
Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf, who was recently booked by the police for illegally detaining scores of judges during the 2007 emergency, has said that he will return to Pakistan very soon.He said he had been busy making the rounds of the international academic circuit delivering lectures and would return to Pakistan as soon as he finished his commitments. Pakistan's Supreme Court declared the emergency imposed by Musharraf in November 2007 as unconstitutional.
The Pakistani Taliban confirmed on Tuesday, that its chief Hakimullah Mehsud had died of injuries sustained in a US drone strike, ending weeks of speculation over his fate.Taliban sources based in the Aurakzai tribal region told TV news channels that 28-year-old Mehsud was severely injured in a drone attack in Shaktoi area of North Waziristan Agency on January 14.
A TV news channel journalist, who reported on the rain and flash floods in Uttarakhand while perched on the shoulder of an affected villager, has been sacked, the channel head said on Wednesday.
Besides the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, a bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian also issued notices to the News Broadcasters Association, the News Broadcasting Standards Authority of India and the Press Council of India on the PIL filed by Delhi-based lawyer Reepak Kansal.
Six Indian nationals were among 18 people killed in a Taliban attack on an Indian construction company in Afghanistan, a Pakistani TV news channel reported.
Ignored by his party, estranged Trinamool Congress Member of Parliament Kabir Suman on Monday gave a free hand to his party to expel him, if it so desired.
The United States has revealed, for the first time, that it wanted a 'safe exit' for former Pakistan military ruler Pervez Musharraf after he was forced to step down from the post of head of state last year. Anne W Patterson, the US ambassador to Pakistan, said that Washington wanted a 'safe exit' and a dignified retirement for the former president, the 'Daily Times' newspaper reported on Sunday.
Pakistan-based outlawed groups Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed have supported Taliban and Al Qaida in destabilising the country, Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said.
It is necessary to resolve all issues between India and Pakistan so that the countries could give attention to the problems of the people, he said in an interview to a TV news channel. Replying to a question about Pakistan's relations with India, he said Islamabad has always maintained that the ties "should be on the basis of equality."
Terrorists on Friday targeted a bus carrying a group of people to a Shia religious procession as well as a hospital in Karachi, killing at least 22 people and injuring over 50, in the latest in a wave of attacks across the country.The explosion targeting the bus occurred on Shahrah-e-Quaideen, a key thoroughfare in the city, at 3.05 pm local time.Provincial Health Minister Sagheer Ahmed said 12 people were killed and 50 injured in the attack.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has snapped informal talks with the ruling Pakistan People's Party, following its co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari's stinging comments describing him as a 'relic of the past and an unelected and non-democratic President', Pakistani TV news channels reported on Friday. During his interview with PTI, Zardari described Musharraf as a relic of the past, who was standing between the people of Pakistan and democracy.
A former aide of Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud has accused him of plotting the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto in 2007.
Ram Vilas Vedanti said Advani tried to persuade the karsevaks to come down from atop of the structure.
Amid reports that the Ram Pradhan probe has raised questions on the supervision and coordination of the police force during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, the demand for making the findings public grew loud on Monday night.
A bomb disguised as a toy outside a girls' primary school exploded when children picked it up to play, killing 13 of them and wounding over 40 others in restive northwestern Pakistan's Dir district.
The death toll in two suicide car bombings in northwest Pakistan today rose to 25 with the recovery of five more bodies from the debris of a police station that was destroyed in one of the attacks.
Though almost all channels have agreed to a government-mandated code of conduct, the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority issued a letter to them on Tuesday, saying some "channels are airing live coverages and taking live telephone calls from the public which contain baseless propaganda against Pakistan and incites people to violence". The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists termed the PEMRA letter an "attempt to silence the free media."
Speaking to private TV news channel CNBC TV18, Naik said, "Some corporate action will take place in the near future but we cannot comment on taking over Satyam at this stage."
At least 13 Pakistani soldiers and 10 tribesmen were killed in an air strike and overnight clashes with NATO and Afghan forces in a tribal region, reports have said.
Mahatransco (Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company Limited - MSETCL) Chairman and Managing Director Dinesh Waghmare said Tata Power's plants took time to start generating electricity following the grid collapse on Monday morning, resulting in the specially created 'islanding' system not working.
CMS Media Lab is offering summer internship for its television news monitoring initiative.
A Pakistani TV news channel late Saturday night aired photographs of two men it said were involved in the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto after an election rally in Rawalpindi on Thursday.
The Cyberabad police, probing the case, also said some print and electronic media also telecast and published documents related to the probe on news channels, papers and social media, which hampered the investigation.
The world is not about to change just because some people get angry and call for tax boycotts. Indeed, citizens seem to be quite happy with the governments they have -- three of the five that went back to voters have got re-elected, and the voting percentages have been large.
'The truth will be out soon.'
The television news channels had threatened to boycott the IPL as a protest against the exclusive rights given to Sony Network.
The e-mail identity of the originator has also been changed to al-arbi-al-Hind. In this context, al-Arbi could mean only 'The Arab' and not Wednesday. Thus, the e-mail identity used means 'The Arab of India'. Why so, since the IM claims to be an organisation totally of Indian Muslims with no external links? Why the originator projects himself as 'The Arab'? Is it a reference to one of the two Indian Muslims operating from Saudi Arabia for many years?
The witness, Jasbir Singh, in California, told TV news channels that the CBI had never contacted him before and that he was ready to testify before a court in Delhi if he was assured security.
Pawar said the Maharashtra government would have to take full responsibility for the power shortage in the state.
Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan said he would demonstrate against President George W Bush during his upcoming visit to Pakistan.
J&K: Musharraf offers to join fight against terror
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