India

New Delhi, Dec 20: When it's about highways, Nitin Gadkari -- the 'flyover man from Maharashtra' -- seems to know the way to take it to a new high and his latest is linking Delhi with Thailand for an over 4,000-km road trip in 2016. "I don't believe in empty words... What I say I do," the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways said while listing out his priorities for the new year. As he

New Delhi, Dec 20: Scores of protesters, including the parents of the December 16 gangrape victim, were detained by the police after they staged a protest against the release of the juvenile convict near India Gate here today. The juvenile convict in the December 16 gangrape case was today released and sent to an NGO in Delhi, said a source. The protest started around 5 PM and within half-an-hour

New Delhi, Dec 20: Facing allegations of corruption, under-fire former Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) President Arun Jaitley today got the backing of the two biggest stars to emerge from the state-- Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir. Finance Minister Jaitley, who headed DDCA for 13 years till 2013, has been accused of corruption by the Delhi Government during his tenure. The state

Patna/Khagaria, Dec 20: Seven coaches of Katihar-Amritsar Amrapali Express derailed in Bihar's Khagaria district early today. There was no report of any casualty in the derailment that occurred at a place under Sonepur division of ECR. Seven coaches of 15707 UP Katihar-Amritsar Express including one AC-2, one AC-3 and five sleeper coaches jumped the track in between Patraha and Gouchari at around

Chandigarh, Dec 20: An FIR was lodged by the Haryana Vigilance Bureau on Saturday against the then chairman and Chief Administrator of HUDA for alleged irregularities in allotment of industrial plots in Panchkula three years ago when the then Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was at the body’s helm. The FIR was lodged even as Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar recommended CBI probe into

New Delhi, Dec 20: The juvenile offender of the horrific December 16 gangrape case is all set to walk free on Sunday as the Supreme Court refused the dramatic post-midnight move of the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) to stay his release by giving an urgent hearing. A vacation bench comprising Justices AK Goel and UU Lalit in their order pronounced at 2 am, posted the matter for hearing on Monday

New Delhi, Dec 19: Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul today hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing him of levelling "false allegations" against them and making "full use" of government agencies to "deliberately target" the Opposition. Sonia and Rahul, who came straight to the AICC office from the court where they were granted bail in the National Herald case, asserted that

New Delhi, Dec 19: Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party vice president Rahul Gandhi were granted bail in the National Herald case on Saturday by a trial court here. They appeared before Metropolitan Magistrate Loveleen in the Patiala House courts complex.Kapil Sibal, who appeared on their behalf, told reporters that the court rejected petitioner Subramanian Swamy's plea to impose restrictions

New Delhi, Dec 19: The Delhi High Court on Friday ruled that the December 16, 2012 gang-rape "juvenile" convict, slated to be released from an observation home on December 20, cannot be kept back, leading to dismay among various sections of society with the victim's downcast family ruing that "crime has won". The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) said it will challenge the release by writing to

New Delhi, Dec 18: Decks were cleared for the release on Sunday of the juvenile convict in the horrific December 16, 2012 gangrape case with the Delhi High Court today refusing to intervene, saying he cannot be stopped from walking free under the existing provisions of law. The convict, now 20-year-old, is expected to walk out of the reformation home on December 20, at the end of his three- year