The government told the high court of its decision to file a special leave petition in the Supreme Court to appeal against the acquittal.
Dropping clear hints about joining Aam Aadmi Party, expelled Samajwadi Party leader Kamal Farooqui on Sunday met Arvind Kejriwal and said "everybody is interested" in joining the nascent party.
Farooq Ahmad Dar was tied to a jeep by the army as a shield against the stone pelters.
Some eyewitnesses said the driver, who is among the injured, tried to speed across the level crossing even when onlookers tried to draw his attention to the approaching train.
Special CBI judge J P S Malik handed down the jail term to the 17 policemen after holding them guilty on June 6 of involvement in the conspiracy to kidnap and kill Ghaziabad resident Ranbir Singh, who went to Dehradun to take up a job on July 3, 2009.
Earlier this year, Toyota Motor Corp was fined $1.2 billion for concealing problems related to sudden acceleration of some of its vehicles.
A devastating fire at a multi-storeyed building in Kolkata that claimed nine lives turned into the epicentre of a political slugfest on Tuesday, with the Trinamool Congress government and the Bharatiya Janata Party pointing accusatory fingers at the Railways and the state administration respectively, even as the bereaved families grieved at the loss of their near ones.
Dates like 9/11 should never be allowed to pass by forgotten because terrorism is not to be borne, inhumanity is not to borne.
Justice Rewa Khetrapal directed the company to file its response by August 20 when the matter will be taken up for further hearing.
Ravinder, 32, was thrashed by around 12 men after he objected to two of them peeing on the road.
Senior SC advocate Sanjay Hegde tells Amit Agnihotri why the draft Masuka law is necessary.
Three persons were killed and 50 others, including 15 policemen, were injured in police firing and clashes after agitating farmers -- who were demanding adequate compensation for their acquired land in Greater Noida -- turned violent.Farmers had been on protest mode for the past few days and were demanding enhanced compensation for their land, which was acquired in 2006 by the Uttar Pradesh government. The police opened fire to bring the situation under control.
A Sikh man, awaiting trial in an honour killing case, has been slapped with a whopping $ 15 million lawsuit in California's civil court by the victim's family. Gurparkash Khalsa, 56, is in jail charged with killing Ajmer Hothi, 23, the ex-boyfriend of his daughter on March 27, 2007 after he married another woman.
Hundreds had gathered outside the National Thermal Power Corp plant in Kahalgaon on Friday to protest an acute power shortage when the police opened fire on the crowd, killing three people.
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