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Kancheepuram, May 3: Former union minister Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss was arrested on Friday by Kancheepuram police in connection with an alleged hate speech case filed against him in 2012. According to police, a case under Sections 143, 147 and 188 of IPC has been booked against the PMK leader. Dr. Anbumani was picked up from his Chennai residence on Friday morning by a special team and was likely to

Bangalore, May 3: As recoveries and seizures of counterfeit currency notes by various agencies continue in big numbers in South India, Mysore and Kochi will become first two cities in the country to have plastic/polymer currency notes of Rs 10 denomination in circulation, in line with the Centre’s initiative. One of the objectives of the move is to tackle the counterfeit currency menace, the Union

Amritsar, May 2: The body of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh was on Thursday brought to Amritsar onboard a special Air India aircraft from Lahore, where he died following a murderous assault in a jail. It was a grim end to the battle waged by his family to secure his release after he had spent over two decades in Pakistani jails as the plane landed at Rajasansi Airport where political leaders

Lahore/Islamabad, May 2: Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh died in a Lahore hospital around 12.45 a.m. on Thursday after being comatose for six days following a brutal assault by other inmates of a high-security jail, officials said. "I received a call from the doctor on duty (at Jinnah Hospital) at 1 am (1:30 IST) informing me that Sarabjit is no more," Mahmood Shaukat, the head of a

Lahore, May 1: Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, severely injured in a brutal assault last week, has slipped into a non-reversible coma and doctors in a Lahore hospital are struggling to save his life, official sources said on Wednesday. The deterioration in Sarabjit’s condition could lead to brain death, the sources told PTI. His measurements on the Glasgow Coma Scale, which indicates the

New Delhi, May 1: Tremors were felt in parts of North India at 12.30 pm after an earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale was epicentred on the border between Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh. Buildings shook in Delhi, offices and homes were evacuated in parts of Kashmir, and tremors were reported across the border in Lahore and Islamabad in Pakistan. The tremors were felt for about 20

New Delhi: Oil companies on Tuesday reduced the price of petrol by Rs. 3 per litre, without taxes, the highest cut in over five years on falling international prices. This is the fourth cut in petrol prices since March. Oil firms review the price of petrol every two weeks. While petrol price has been deregulated since June 2010 and the price is market determined, the government still controls the

New Delhi, Apr 30: Harin Raval resigned as additional solicitor general Tuesday, a day after locking horns with Attorney General G.E. Vahanvati on the vetting of the CBI status report on its probe into the allocation of coal blocks. Confirming that he had quit, Raval said that he has already sent his resignation letter but declined to dwell on the reasons for taking the step. "You know that I don

New Delhi, Apr 30: Opposition, including BJP, Left and other parties, on Tuesday walked out of Lok Sabha, charging the government with indulging in one scam after another and saying they would not be party to the passage of the Finance Bill and the Railway Budget. The opposition protest came after Speaker Meira Kumar announced that the money bills would be passed without discussion, as decided by

New Delhi, Apr 30: A Delhi court Tuesday acquitted Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in a case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. District Judge J.R. Aryan convicted the other five accused in the case related to the killing of five people in Delhi Cantonment area following the assassination of Indira Gandhi on Oct 31, 1984. The Congress leader was facing trial along with Balwan Khokkar, Mahender