The arrested bookmakers and cricketers, including Test bowler S Sreesanth, are brought to the Saket district court in New Delhi on Thursday. AFP
NEW DELHI: Errant Indian pacer S Sreesanth and two other bowlers from Rajasthan Royals team were arrested in a post-midnight operation in Mumbai on Thursday by the Delhi police for spot-fixing IPL matches for payments of upto Rs 60 lakh just for giving away pre-determined number of runs in an over.
Ms Dalbir Kaur (right), sister of Sarabjit Singh, his wife Ms Sukhpreet Kaur (second left) and daughters Ms Swapandip (left) and Ms Poonam (right) weep at their home in Bikhiwind village, some 45 km from Amritsar. on Thursday. AFP
AMRITSAR: The body of Sarabjit Singh, who succumbed to injuries sustained in a murderous attack by inmates in a Pakistani jail, was flown in here on Thursday night amidst an outrage across the country even as he was virtually accorded a martyr’s status.
Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt gestures during a media conference outside his residence in Mumbai on Thursday. (Afp)
MUMBAI: Breaking down repeatedly, Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, who has been ordered by the Supreme Court to return to jail in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case, on Thursday said he is not seeking any pardon and will surrender within the stipulated deadline.
Policemen stand guard outside the Deen Diyal Upadhyay hospital mortuary, after the main accused in the Delhi gang-rape case was found dead in his prison cell, in New Delhi on Monday.
NEW DELHI: In a mysterious twist in the gruesome Delhi gang-rape-cum-murder case, prime accused Ram Singh allegedly committed suicide in Tihar jail early Monday morning but his family and lawyers claimed it was a murder.
Police stand alongside a bus with shattered windows after youth hurled stones at buses and police outside a hospital in New Delhi on Friday. Hundreds of protestors clashed with police outside the hospital where a seven-year-old victim of sexual assault was admitted. AFP
NEW DELHI: A seven-year-old girl was raped by an unidentified man inside a Delhi municipal school where she is studying, triggering violent protests on Friday by locals who were cane-charged by police.
Friends and family members condole a grieving relative of a bomb blast victim at the Yashoda Hospital in Hyderabad on Friday.
HYDERABAD: A blame game over intelligence inputs erupted on Friday after the twin bomb blasts here as the role of banned militant outfit Indian Mujahideen was being increasingly suspected by probe agencies who got some “leads”.
Policemen and investigators are seen at the site of a bomb blast at Dilsukhnagar in Hyderabad on Thursday. (Noah Seelam | AFP)
HYDERABAD: Terror struck Hyderabad killing 12 people and injuring 84 others on Thursday night when two powerful near simultaneous blasts ripped through a crowded area close to a cluster of bus stands in Dilsukhnagar area.
BJP workers hold placards on Thursday demanding resignation of the Union Home Minister, Mr Sushilkumar Shinde for his controversial remarks on Hindu terror. (AFP)
NEW DELHI: Upping the ante, the BJP on Thursday held protests in different parts of the country demanding the sacking of the Union Home Minister, Mr Sushilkumar Shinde for his Hindu terror remarks and declared it would raise the issue vociferously in Parliament as well.
A BSF trooper keeps a watch at an outpost along the India-Pakistan border in Suchit Garh, 36 km southwest of Jammu, on Thursday. (Tauseef Mustafa)
JAMMU/NEW DELHI: Indian and Pakistani troops on Thursday engaged in exchange of fire in the Poonch sector in Jammu and Kashmir, the scene of beheading of Indian soldiers, in fresh tensions as Pakistan closed the gates for cross-border trade at Chakan-Da-Bagh.
Activists take part in a candlelight vigil in Kolkata on Sunday, after the cremation of the gang-rape victim in Delhi. AFP
NEW DELHI: Prayers, candlelight vigils and rallies continued to be held in a sombre atmosphere of grief in several cities as the mortal remains of the gang-rape victim, who lost her brave battle for life in a Singapore hospital on Saturday,
