India

New Delhi, Oct 22: A day after his disqualification from the Rajya Sabha, Congress leader Rashid Masood on Tuesday moved the Delhi High Court challenging his conviction and four years sentence in a corruption case. Justice Hima Kohli issued notice to the CBI and sought its response by November 13, on Mr. Masood’s appeal. Mr. Masood’s counsel H.R. Khan Suhail also sought suspension of his client’s

Mumbai, Oct 22: The Rupee continued to fall for third trading day on Tuesday, slipping 22 paise to 61.74 per dollar on sustained demand for the U.S. currency from importers and banks amidst its higher value overseas in spite of good foreign capital inflows. The rupee resumed lower at 61.71 per dollar as against the last closing level of 61.52 at the Interbank Foreign Exchange (Forex) Market. It

Chennai, Oct 22: India's atomic power plant operator Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) Tuesday generated 160 MW power at its first unit in Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP), said a senior official. "Unit 1 synchronisation with the power grid was done at 2.45 a.m. on Tuesday, generating 75 MW of power. We then increased the power output to 160 MW and maintained that for around

New Delhi, Oct 22: Civil Aviation Ministry is hopeful of completing the process of privatising six major airports, including those at Chennai and Kolkata, within a time-frame and ahead of the 2014 general elections. The Ministry's move to hand over these airports, developed by the Airports Authority of India (AAI), through public- private partnership in the next 2-3 months to private parties

New Delhi, Oct 21: Convicted Congress leader Rashid Masood today became the first MP to lose his seat after the Supreme Court struck down a provision that protects a convicted lawmaker from disqualification on the ground of pendency of appeal in higher courts. 66-year-old Masood was held guilty in a case of corruption and other offences in September. His conviction was the first after the Supreme

New Delhi, Oct 21: Environmentalist Sunita Narain suffered critical injuries on Sunday after a speeding car hit her from behind while she was riding a bicycle in the national capital, police said. 52-year-old Narain, the director of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and resident of South Delhi's Green Park area, was heading towards Lodhi Garden area on a bicycle when an unidentified car hit

New Delhi, Oct 20: Kashmir is an integral part of India and no one should raise a question on that, said External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid. Rejecting Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's demand for US intervention in resolving the Kashmir issue, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid today said India will not accept this as the matter is a bilateral one agreed to between the two

Jerusalem, Oct 20: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday urged the international community to step up the pressure on Iran, despite some optimism following the latest round of nuclear talks with the Islamic Republic. It was Mr. Netanyahu’s first public statement on last week’s round of talks between Iran and global powers over its nuclear programme. Negotiators ended the talks on an

New Delhi, Oct 20: The CBI is likely to file its status report in the coal scam before the Supreme Court on Tuesday stating details of its 14th FIR against Hindalco and others and also progress in the remaining 13 cases. Highly-placed sources said the Supreme Court would be given the details of fresh FIR filed against Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla, Hindalco and former Coal

Srinagar, Oct 20: Nearly a fortnight after the Army operations were called off in Keran sector, questions have cropped up over what happened during the long intrusion by infiltrators from Pakistan believed to be from its special forces. The Army operations, which were said to have been stopped on October 8, continued even five days later till a joint team of BSF and Army managed to reach the three