India

Kolkata, May 12: At least 17 people were injured after a low-intensity blast on the Sealdah-Krishnanagar local train in Kolkata on Tuesday. The blast took place at 3:55 am after the train left Titagarh. According to police, passengers travelling in the fifth bogey hurled bombs at each other after a scuffle. The injured have been admitted to RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. Top police officials

Hyderabad, May 11: A metropolitan sessions court here today granted bail to Satyam Computers founder B Ramalinga Raju and nine others and suspended their seven-year rigorous imprisonment sentence in the multi-crore rupee accounting fraud in the erstwhile IT firm. They had been taken into custody barely a month ago after the conviction in the trial court. M Laxman, special judge for economic

Bengaluru, May 11: Giving a clean chit to former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, the Karnataka High Court today held that the judgement and finding recorded by the trial court convicting her and three others suffers from infirmity and it is not sustainable in law. Acquitting Jayalalithaa and three others of "all the charges levelled against them", the single bench judge Justice C R

Bengaluru, May 11: Jayalalithaa was today acquitted by the Karnataka High Court in the disproportionate assets case that came as a huge relief to the AIADMK chief that will enable her stage a political comeback and return to the Chief Minister's post. Pronouncing the verdict in a jam-packed court, Justice C R Kumaraswamy also acquitted AIADMK's chief close aide Sasikala Natarajan and her relatives

New Delhi, May 11: Stating that he doesn't care about media, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today said that if election is held in the national capital today, Aam Aadmi Party would poll 72 per cent votes. "Whatever comes in the media, but I conduct a survey every 15 days of my party in Delhi. If elections are conducted in the national capital, then we are ought to get 72 per cent votes

Burnpur (West Bengal), May 10: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday dedicated to the nation the upgraded IISCO Steel Plant (ISP), that houses the country's largest blast furnace and has been modernised by the central government at a cost of Rs.16,000 crore. After modernisation, the plant's production capacity has increased from 0.85 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) to 2.9 mtpa. "With immense joy

New Delhi, May 10: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today came under sharp attack for his government's controversial circular threatening action against the media for any defamatory news, with Congress and BJP accusing him of being a "hypocrite" and "anti-democratic". "When there is criticism of the government, when the wrongdoings of his government is exposed by the media, the Chief Minister

New Delhi, May 10: Despite India's declining child sex ratio, as many as 30 states and union territories have not convicted even a single person for pre-conception and pre-natal diagnostic between 2011 and 2013, raising concerns about the poor implementation of the PCPNDT Act. The five states which have worst child sex ratio (CSR) - Daman and Diu (618 girls per 1,000 boys), Dadra and Nagar Haveli

Srinagar, May 9: At least 14 civilians, including two minor girls, were injured today in a grenade attack by militants at a busy market in Shopian district of south Kashmir, police said. The ultras hurled the grenade at a police party in main town market of Shopian, 52 kms from here. The grenade missed the intended target and exploded in a crowded place, resulting in injuries to 14 people, a

Raipur, May 9: A hostage situation is continuing since last night in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh where around 250 villagers were seized by Maoist rebels on the eve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to neighbouring Dantewada. Chief Minister Raman Singh said anywhere between 200 and 250 villagers were abducted by the Naxals from a few villages in Sukma district and efforts were being made