The Supreme Court will hear actor Sanjay Dutt's review petition against his sentence and conviction. Dutt had sought a review of his five-year sentence in the 1993 Mumbai blast case.
The CBI is briefing the Prime Minister on the need to question Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal in the controversial bribery case. With fresh allegations of conflict of interest against the Railway Minister, it might only be a matter of time before the part...
The Congress core group meeting which was to take place today has been postponed to Saturday. The fate of Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal will be decided during the meet.
Actor Sanjay Dutt is pinning his hopes on the Supreme Court, where his review petition against the court's conviction in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blast case will be heard today. Dutt has sought a review from the court, upholding his five-year sentence. A two-membe...
With fresh allegations of conflict of interest against Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal in the bribery case, will he continue to enjoy the support of his party is the big question doing the rounds.
Three accused, convicted of murder in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, get life term. Captain Bhagmal, Girdhari Lal and Balwan Khokkar get lifer while the other two accused in the case get three-year jail term. Sikhs, who had hoped for death sentences, expressed...
A Delhi court will today decide the quantum of sentence in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. The court will decide the sentence of five accused who were convicted in the case. The verdict will be closely decided by many who are already enraged by Congress leader ...
CBI now wants to question Railway Minster Pawan Kumar Bansal in the bribery case that involves his nephew Vijay Singla. The BJP, meanwhile, has taken its fight to the streets with party workers in Kanpur taking out protests against the minister and demanding h...
If the attack on UPA government and its ministers in Parliament was not enough, the BJP has launched an attack on Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal on the streets of Kanpur too. Party workers agitated in Kanpur, demanding Bansal's resignation.
Reiterating his party's demand, senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha said if UPA is serious about people's welfare, it must sack the two minsters accused in cases of corruption.
This session of the Parliament may be running out of time to pass important bills, such as the one on food security, but that has not stopped the Opposition from halting its attack on the government, disrupting House proceedings.
BJP workers take out protests against Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal in Kanpur. The Minister's kin was caught accepting bribe worth Rs 80 lakh in return for a plum post for a Railway Board member. The BJP has been vehemently demanding his resignation over...
The Congress core group has decided that the Parliament is not going to be adjourned sine die. The Opposition has kept up its demand for the sacking of UPA ministers and threatened to stall Parliament proceedings.
Parents of slain teenager Aarushi Talwar have sought stay against appearance in CBI court for recording their statement. The couple have been accused of murdering their daughter and the domestic help, Hemraj.
Nupur and Rajesh Talwar have stalled CBI's attempt to make them give a statement in the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case. The dentist couple are the key accused in the murder of their teenage daughter and their domestic help. They were asked to record their s...
The BJP has strategically crippled the Parliament and put the UPA government in a spot by deciding to stall bills in the House until Law Minister Ashwani Kumar and Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal have been sacked.
BJP cooks up a storm in Rajya Sabha, holding the government accountable for large-scale corruption and multiple scams. It continues to demand the resignation of two of its Ministers associated in cases of misdeed.
After an internal meeting, the BJP has come out with its strategy against the UPA government. It will not let the Parliament function or allow bills to pass till the Law Minister and Railway Minister resign in the wake of allegations of misdeeds.
The BJP is mounting pressure on the Centre to sack two of its Ministers, Pawan Kumar Bansal and Ashwani Kumar, over allegations of corruption. It has decided in an internal meeting to not allow any bills to pass until the government concedes to the demand.
Sources reveal that there is evidence that links Vijay Singla with Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal in the bribery case, even as the Centre continues to back its Minister.
Rajesh and Nupur Talwar will be recording their statements, in a special CBI court in Ghaziabad, in connection with the double murder case of their daughter Aarushi Talwar and domestic help Hemraj. The CBI had earlier told the court that Hemraj and Aarushi wer...
For the first time, parents of Aarushi Talwar, who have been charged with the murder of their 14-year-old daughter and domestic help Hemraj five years ago, will give their version of the story.
In a crucial verdict today, the Supreme Court has given its nod for the nuclear plant in Kudankulam, Tamil Nadu. The verdict was on a petition seeking stay on the nuclear plant.
It's a crucial day for the nuclear plant in Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu as the Supreme Court will give its verdict on a petition that seeks to halt the project.
It's a crucial day for the nuclear plant in Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu as the Supreme Court will give its verdict on a petition that seeks to halt the project.
The Congress has decided to stand by its Ministers Pawan Kumar Bansal and Ashwani Kumar. The decision was taken at the party's core group meeting convened last evening.
A husband stabbed his pregnant wife in Kalyan Puri in Delhi. The wife was rushed to the hospital but was declared dead. The wife was carrying twins. According to neighbours, the man did not have a job and his wife would pressurize him to get one. The police ha...
The CBI is planning a crucial interrogation later in the evening, pitting all accused against each other in the Railway bribery case. Vijay Singla, nephew of Railway Minster Pawan Kumar Bansal, was caught taking bribe of Rs 80 lakh from a Railway Board member.
The Congress has hinted of action against Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Basal if he is found guilty. A day after ruling out his resignation, the party appeared in two minds over the issue.
The Opposition has sharpened its attack against Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal. It has asked the Prime Minister to sack Bansal after his nephew was caught taking a bribe of Rs 80 lakh.
Bribe money of Rs 90 lakh was seized from Railway Minster Pawan Kumar Bansal's nephew. It's a potential scam of Rs 10 crore for a contract worth Rs 6,000 crore. Here's a detailed report.
BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu has said that the UPA must ask for the resignations of its Ministers Ashwani Kumar and Pawan Kumar Bansal in the wake of massive misdeeds being brought to light.
The CBI is widening its net in the Railway bribery case involving Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansa's nephew Vijay Singla. The total number of arrests in the case has now gone up to seven.
Even after a year since Revolutionary Marxist Party founder TP Chandrasekharan was murdered, the CPI(M) hasn't released its inquiry report into the case. According to former CPI(M) leader Appukuttan Vallikunnu says that Prakash Karat is betraying people by not...
It will be a year tomorrow since TP Chandrasekharan was murdered. Here is a story of political ambition and vengeance, which hasn't stopped at TP's murder. The founder of the Revolutionary Marxist Party was killed at Vallikkad on May 4, 2012. TP was expelled f...
Senior journalist Aarti Jairath, author and columnist Rahul Singh and president of Delhi Sikh Gurudwara management committee Manjeet Singh debate on the Delhi court's verdict on the 1984 Sikh riots case. Earlier today the court had convicted all seven accused,...
The Supreme Court has made damning observations about the government. The court has observed that the premier probing agency of the country, the CBI does not have any independence. The observations were made as the court looked into the affidavit submitted by ...
A massive protest broke outside a Delhi court, where irate Sikhs targeted the judge, in connection to the 1984 Sikh riots case, as they were hopeful that Sajjan Kumar would be punished. District and Sessions Judge J R Aryan acquitted Sajjan Kumar while convict...
A massive protest has broken out outside a Delhi court where the hearing of the 1984 Sikhs riots case took place. A shoe was thrown at the judge when Congress leader Sajjan Kumar was acquitted from all charges. District and Sessions Judge JR Aryan acquitted Sa...
In the backdrop of the Saradha Group chit fund scandal, Congress leaders have been protesting in the streets of Kolkata, asking the Mamata Banerjee government to take immediate action against the company. The protesters include youth Congress workers, who are ...
An Assistant Inspector was killed by his wife yesterday in Mumbai while he was sleeping. The woman alleged that her husband used to beat her up when he was drunk and had even registered a case against him. The police have arrested the wife.
A speeding car going out of control hit three people in Delhi last night killing one and critically injuring another. Two children were also injured and have been admitted in the AIIMS hospital for treatment. The police have registered a case and seized the ca...
West Bengal governor MK Narayanan has expressed an open disapproval of Didi. He says that the Rs 500 crore fund compensation for the investors who have suffered losses in the chit fund scam is not enough and that more things need to be done. He says that the r...
The Supreme Court rules that the Italian marines case will be probed only by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The court also ruled that the trial in the special court will happen on a daily basis as soon as the chargesheet is filed. The two Italian mar...
India is increasingly becoming unsafe for women. In the past 24 hours, seven rape incidents have been reported from Delhi and NCR regions. Is there any place where a woman or a girl is safe? Roads, homes and work places no longer remain safe for a girl or woma...
In August 2011, Congress MP AHK Chowdhury had written a complaint to the PMO on Saradha Group. He later withdrew the same in March 2012. The Opposition has questioned his action. Chowdhury has now accused the TMC of using the party to cover up 'fault' in the c...
Saradha Group chairman Sudipta Sen has been taken into 14 days of police custody for swindling the small and medium scale investors of West Bengal in the chit fund scam. He has been charged under IPC 406 and 420. The corporate affairs minister Sachin Pilot has...
The corporate affairs minister Sachin Pilot has set up a Special Task Force under the SFIO to probe the chit fund scam. The SEBI and the Enforcement Directorate are also investigating the scam. The ED has slapped a case against Saradha Group chairman Sudipta S...
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee's decision to set up 500 crore rupees relief fund for Saradha chit fund has not found many takers. Protesters protested outside a court in Kolkata, where Sudipta Sen was produced today. Small and medium investors were unimpressed...
SEBI has imposed a penalty of one crore on Rose Valley Tea Estates and Constructions Limited. Rose Valley had raised funds without a certification from the SEBI. It has observed that investors do not have day to day control over the management and operation of...
SEBI has imposed a penalty of one crore on Rose Valley Tea Estates and Constructions Limited. Rose Valley had raised funds without a certification from the SEBI. It has observed that investors do not have day to day control over the management and operation of...
External affairs minister Salman Khurshid speaks on the Italian marines case, says it does not matter whether NIA or CBI probes the case, whatever the court orders, will be followed.
Trinamool Congress leaders have requested the government to postpone the Joint Parliamentary Committee meeting to another day as a TMC MP Ambika Banerjee passed away earlier this morning. The TMC leaders said that they would not like to discuss political matte...
Newshour | Why did West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee not crack down on the ponzi swindler Sudipta Sen, chairman of the Saradha Group and all the others who were involved in the chit fund scam, much earlier? Can TMC distance itself from the chit fund scam any long...
Sources claim that that the Corporate Affairs Ministry did receive a complaint from the members of Parliament last year on the chit fund company, Saradha Group, that has defrauded hundreds of investors in West Bengal. Officials have arrested the Group's chairm...
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee says that none of her party leaders were involved in the chit fund scam by Saradha Group. She has blamed the Centre and the previous Left government for the ponzi scam, as the Centre was informed about the scam earlier. Earlier t...
Assam CM Tarun Gogoi has said that the CBI is already investigating the Saradha Group chit fund case in the state. Earlier, it was reported that the Assam police had started investigating two cases against the Group, which are from Guwahati and Jorhat. Gogoi h...
Centrestage | West Bengal's Saradha Group chairman Sudipta Sen has written a letter to the CBI naming many politicians, officials and legal experts in the chit fund scam. The ponzi promoter says that he was constantly being blackmailed by members of Parliament...
Saradha group chit fund case mastermind Sudipta Sen has submitted a letter to the CBI naming key politicians, officials and legal experts, who are involved in the scam. The name of the politicians include many TMC workers. One of the TMC workers named in the l...
The probe on the Saradha group has been widening after the SEBI crack down on the ponzi mastermind Sudipta Sen. The Assam police have now started investigating two cases against the group which are in Guwahati and Jorhat. The Bengal government has frozen 35 ba...
The West Bengal police has seized 36 cars belonging to the Saradha group CMD Sudipta Sen. The state government has frozen 35 bank accounts that belong to him. He was caught in Jammu and Kashmir along with his accomplices yesterday and has been brought to Kolka...
A 15-year-old minor tried to rape a six-year-old girl in Singaraya Konda Mandal, Prakasam district. Mallikarjuna tried to molest young Vineela after she went to his house to watch TV. He left her only after she started screaming and also threatened to kill her...
Bengal chit fund promoter has been caught in Jammu and Kashmir's Sonamarg district. The J&K police have detained Saradha group chairman & managing director Sudipto Sen and a director of the company. They had fled after their Calcutta-based chit fund business c...
Bengal chit fund promoter has been caught in Jammu and Kashmir's Sonamarg district. The J&K police have detained Saradha group chairman & managing director Sudipto Sen and a director of the company. They had fled after their Calcutta-based chit fund business c...
The three people who were involved in the West Bengal Ponzi scheme have been arrested in the Sonemarg district of Jammu and Kashmir. The identity of these people have still not been revealed. Sources claim that one of them could be the head of the Saradha grou...
CBI freezes accounts of all accused, including former Air chief SP Tyagi and his brothers, in the AgustaWestland chopper deal case. CBI FIR has named Tyagi as one of the recipients of kickbacks in the deal. CBI believes Tyagi tweaked norms so that Agusta could...
Thiruvananthapuram Sessions Court is set to deliver its verdict on Aprani Krishnakumar murder case today. This sensational murder that shocked the state took place in 2007.
Pradeep, second accused in the Delhi rape case, has admitted his crime, saying that he has committed a grave mistake. He has confessed to the police that he lured the five-year-old girl, raped her and fled the place, leaving the girl to die. Police have reveal...
Newshour | Should law treat those who rape children and brutalise women with kid gloves? Why does the law still not call for death penalty for those who rape children and those who commit beastiality against women? How many more cases should India endure to ma...
Sources claim that the West Bengal government refused to act in the Saradha chit fund case till mid April. Sources also claim that the market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India had warned state government about the dubious chit fund. The PMO had ...
Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde faces Opposition heat for his statement on the Delhi minor rape case. When asked about the incident he had said 'such incidents have been reported from other parts of the country also'. Watch some reactions to this shocking re...
Delhi Police Commissioner, Neeraj Kumar in his address to the media, says that the Delhi police has been successful in arresting the second co-accused in the Delhi minor rape case. He says that the accused, Pradeep was arrested from Bihar and is currently on h...
An Andheri Court has issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against the Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt in connection with a case which was filed by film producer Shakeel Noorani. The producer has alleged that he received threatening calls from international numbers...
A 22-year-old mentally challenged girl was allegedly raped by a ward boy in a mental asylum in Pune. The accused and the doctor in charge of the hospital, who attempted to hush up the case by offering money to the parents of the victim, have been arrested.
Second accused in the Delhi rape case, Pradeep, has been arrested from Bihar's Darbhanga district after the first accused confessed to the Delhi police he had an accomplice. The first accused in the case, Manoj Kumar, has been sent to 14 days judicial custody....
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets top leaders in Delhi to discuss the five-year-old girl's rape case. The Prime Minister has ordered a detailed report on the alleged negligence of the Delhi police in this case. The PM has also ordered security to be tightene...
People who have come out into the streets of Delhi, protesting against the increasing crimes against women in the national capital, demand that the accused who raped the five-year-old girl should be publicly disgraced. Protesters continue to demand that the De...
In the Boston marathon blasts case, one suspect is dead after a gun fight with the police and the second suspect, who is armed and dangerous, is at large.
This is a medical bulletin on the Boston marathon blasts case. Doctors say one patient out of the 12 injured is critical. Three people died and 12 were injured in the blast during Boston marathon earlier this week.
A Pakistani court has issued an immediate arrest warrant against the former President Pervez Musharraf. Following the judgement, Musharraf escaped arrest by fleeing to his farmhouse in his bullet proof car. But he could not avoid arrest for a long time as he h...
Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf was taken into custody and sent to two days of transit remand. For these two days, Musharraf will be under arrest in his own farmhouse, which has been now turned into a sub-jail.
A day after he fled Islamabad high court premises to evade arrest, former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has been put under house arrest after an Islamabad court cancelled his bail extension plea and ordered for his arrest, over the case of declaration o...
The Pakistani police has arrested former Pakistan President, and military ruler, General Pervez Musharaf, a day after he fled the Islamabad High Court premises, following his arrest orders. According to Geo News reports, Musharraf who presented himself at a ju...
A Maharashtra Assembly panel's report on the case of MLAs assaulting a Mumbai cop has been made public. According to the report, the cop, ASI Sachin Suryavanshi is at fault and not the MLAs who thrashed him. The panel also says that a departmental inquiry shou...
A Maharashtra Assembly panel, inquiring into the case of MLAs assaulting a Mumbai policeman, says that the assaulted cop, ASI Sachin Suryavanshi, misbehaved with the MLAs and was at fault. The panel, in its report has recommended revocation of three of the fiv...
After Sanjay Dutt, the Supreme Court grants relief to four more convicts -- Zaibunissa, Altaf Ali, Essa Memon and Yusuf Nalwala -- in the Bombay blasts case. They get an extension of four more weeks to surrender.
The Supreme Court on Thursday granted four more weeks to three 1993 Mumbai blasts convicts to surrender and undergo their remaining jail term. Altaf Ali, Essa Memon and Yusuf Nullwala got the extension of time to surrender. Actor Sanjay Dutt got a month's repr...
After Sanjay Dutt, the Supreme Court grants relief to three more convicts -- Altaf Ali, Essa Memon and Yusuf Nalwala -- in the Bombay blasts case. They get an extension of four more weeks to surrender. aibunissa's hearing is slated later for the day. Her earli...
The Supreme Court today granted four more weeks to three convicts to surrender to complete the jail term awarded to them in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case. The three convicts Yusuf Nalwala, Altaf Ali Syeed and Esa Memon, along with Zaibunissa Kazi were awarded th...
The people of Aligarh clashed with the police officials after the body of a six-year-old girl was discovered. The mob was angry as the police had refused to file an FIR last night when the family came to the police station for help. The police had to resort to...
Centrestage | Today, Sanjay Dutt was given an extension of four weeks by the Supreme court, after he appealed that he needs six months of time to finish his film projects. He was supposed to surrender on April 18 for the five year jail term that was awarded to...
News Night | Is a celebrity like Sanjay Dutt cosseted by the law? The Supreme Court today accepted Dutt's plea seeking more time to surrender for the five year jail term that was awarded to him for his involvement in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case. Dutt has been ...
Sanjay Dutt was granted four weeks time to surrender by the Supreme Court to turn in to serve his remaining sentence in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case. Dutt, 53, had sought six months time to surrender to complete his seven movies in which producers have invested...
The 17-year-old son of senior NCP leader Abdul Qadeer Maulana was arrested after his SUV knocked down two minor girls, aged two and three, and their uncle, killing the younger girl on the spot in Aurangabad. The whole incident was caught on CCTV cameras.
The Supreme has granted actor Sanjay Dutt one month to surrender and serve three-and-a-half years more of jail term for illegally possessing firearms, in connection with the 1993 Mumbai blast case.