India

New Delhi, Jan 16: Delhi Police's Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the death of Sunanda Pushkar, on Thursday questioned the crew of a flight from Thiruvananthapuram to Delhi in which former Union minister Shashi Tharoor and his wife had allegedly fought on January 15, 2014. The SIT may also question a senior Congress leader, who was on the same flight, about what was the fight all about

New Delhi, Jan 15: Former Team Anna member Kiran Bedi today joined BJP and will contest the February 7 Delhi Assembly polls, a move seen as the party's effort to contain Aam Aadmi Party in the national capital. The 65-year old former IPS officer was inducted into the party fold in the presence of BJP President Amit Shah and Union Ministers Arun Jaitley and Harsh Vardhan, triggering speculation

New Delhi, Jan 15: Former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Kiran Bedi joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday. Bedi, India's first female IPS officer, was a member of Team Anna, a core group of activists who worked closely with Anna Hazare when he launched his campaign to demand a bill to appoint a lokpal against corruption. Arvind Kejriwal, who too was a member of the team, had a

Patna, Jan 15: Family members of the Dalits who were killed in 1999 in Bihar's Arwal district, allegedly by the outlawed, upper -caste militia Ranvir Sena men, are disheartened and devastated over the release of all the accused. Etwaria Devi, in her late 50s, lost her husband Ganga Paswan and another relative Nanhu Paswan in the massacre of 22 Dalits Jan 25, 1999, at Shankar Bigha village. A court

Mumbai, Jan 15: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut interest rates on Thursday by 25 basis points to 7.75 percent in a surprise inter-meeting cut, yielding to growing signs of slowing inflation and a flagging recovery. The wholesale price index for December, released on Wednesday, rose just 0.11 percent year-on-year compared with a 0.6 percent jump forecast by economists in a Reuters poll

Rampur, Jan 14: A local court today sent Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi to one year in jail for violating prohibitory orders during the 2009 Lok Sabha polls. Judicial magistrate Manish Kumar held Naqvi guilty under sections 143 (unlawful assembly), 341 (wrongful restraint) and 342 (wrongful confinement) of IPC, 7 Criminal Law Amendment Act and Section 144 of CrPC. Eighteen others were also

New Delhi, Jan 14: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today said there was no controversy in the sacking of Avinash Chander as DRDO chief and it was he who recommended that the position should be held by someone from a "slightly younger generation" and not by someone on contract. Noting that the tenure of Chander had ended in November, he said it was extended on contractual basis due the previous

Bengaluru, Jan 14: The High Court has quashed the FIRs filed by the police against the chief executive officers (Karnataka circle) of mobile service providers Airtel, Aircel, Idea and Tata Docomo for not verifying customers’ documents before issuing them SIM cards. The FIRs were filed by the Malleswaram, HAL and Indiranagar police against the CEOs under sections 419, 420, 468 and 470 of the IPC

Lucknow, Jan 14: At least 30 bodies, which were ostensibly disposed of in the Ganga river as part of last rites by their kin, surfaced after the water receded near Pariyar ghat in neighbouring Unnao district, prompting administration to order an inquiry into it. Inspector general of police (law and order) A Satish Ganesh said that around 20-25 bodies were recovered near Pariyar ghat in Safipur

New Delhi, Jan 14: The Congress, reeling under a series of defeats in recent elections, has now pegged its hopes for its revival through an agitation against the “dictatorial tendencies” of the Narendra Modi government, particularly the ordinance to amend its pet land acquisition law. The Congress Working Committee (CWC), the party’s top decision-making body, on Tuesday decided to oppose