India News

17-05-13

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.

17-05-13

NEW DELHI:  Sesa Goa is looking to restart iron ore mining from Karnataka and expects a strong demand of the ore within the state, a top company official of its parent firm Vedanta Resources said on Thursday.

17-05-13

MUMBAI: It was back to jail for Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt who on Thursday surrendered before a special court to complete his prison term in the 1993 Mumbai bombings case, adding one more chapter in a life story that could rival one of his films.

16-05-13

MUMBAI:  Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt today surrendered before the designated TADA court in Mumbai to serve a three-and-a-half year sentence in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case.

16-05-13

GUWAHATI: An alert has been sounded across Assam as cyclone ‘Mahasen' is likely to hit the north-eastern states tonight, officials said today.

16-05-13

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Thursday deferred for tomorrow its order on whether to summon the Union Home Minister, Mr Sushilkumar Shinde in connection with a defamation case filed against him for his alleged 'Hindu terror' remark.
The Metropolitan Magistrate,

16-05-13

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Thursday said no person would be arrested under Section 66A of the IT Act for posting objectionable comments on social networking websites without prior approval from an officer of the Inspector General of Police-rank.

15-05-13

NEW DELHI: The government on Tuesday constituted a group of ministers, headed by the Finance Minister, Mr P Chidambaram, to prepare a draft law to insulate the CBI from external influence and a draft affidavit within three weeks in the Supreme Court which had made a scathing observations on the agency.

15-05-13

NEW DELHI:  An indigenously-developed vaccine that could cost around just `50 per dose was unveiled here on Tuesday to treat severe rotavirus diarrhoea, which kills more than one lakh children under the age of five in India every year.

14-05-13

MUMBAI Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, convicted in the 1993 bomb blasts case, Tuesday told a TADA court that he was facing threat to life from fundamentalist groups and hence should be allowed to surrender before Yerwada jail instead of the special court here.