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New Delhi, Apr 26: After four days of questioning and strong words from a court, the Delhi Police on Tuesday night arrested AIADMK (Amma) leader T T V Dhinakaran in connection with a case of bribing Election Commission officials for the ‘two leaves’ symbol. Dhinakaran and his aide Mallikarjun were arrested close to midnight following questioning, sources said. He was grilled for about 37 hours

New Delhi, Apr 25: CBI has registered a case against former IPS officer Ranjit Sinha on charges of misuing his official position and trying to influence coal scam probe. He became the second retired CBI Director to face a regular case filed by the agency in a span of three months, the first A P Singh, who was booked in February this year on charges of illegally favouring controversial meat

Kozhikode, Apr 25: Over 190 passengers and the crew of a Dubai-bound Air India flight had a miraculous escape on Monday as the plane veered off the runway after an engine failure during the take off and suffered a tyre burst at the Karipur airport here. The pilot of the flight AI-C937 reported trouble in the left engine at 11.35 am just after taxiing and was to take off, when the incident occurred

Thiruvananthapuram, Apr 25: The Kerala High Court on Tuesday granted conditional bail to Mangalam channel CEO Ajith Kumar and reporter R. Jayachandran in connection with a honey trap case. Eight journalists of the Mangalam channel last week surrendered over the issue of sex track with former Kerala transport minister A.K. Saseendran in front of the investigation team. It is claimed that a team of

New Delhi, Apr 25: The 25 CRPF jawans who were killed in a deadly Naxal ambush in Chhattisgarh's Sukma, were having lunch when a hail of bullets and grenades hit them fatally. A party of about 36 troops, out of the total 99, came under the first assault after they had ventured out from Burkapal yesterday to sanitise and provide protection to a 5.5-km long road construction work connecting

New York, Apr 25: Cautioning against protectionism, RBI Governor Urjit Patel has said where would giant American corporations like Apple, Cisco and IBM be if they had not sourced the best products and talent from across the world. "I don't think that we have heard the last word on US policy talk about this because there is a push back internationally that the world has benefited from an open

Raipur, Apr 25: Home minister Rajnath Singh today described as "a cold-blooded murder" the Naxalite attack on a CRPF patrol that killed 25 men in Chattisgarh. Singh, who paid homage to the CRPF personnel at a wreath-laying ceremony at the headquarters of the 4th battalion of the Chhattisgarh Armed Force in the Mana camp area, said it was a "cowardly" act. Chhattisgarh Governor Balramji Das Tandon

Sukma, Apr 25: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh arrived in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma on Tuesday to pay tribute to 25 CRPF jawans who have been martyred in a deadly Maoist attack. The attack took place between Burkapal-Chintagufa area in south Bastar, the worst Maoist violence-affected district area of the state. President Pranab Mukherjee, PM Narendra Modi and other senior leaders had yesterday

Mumbai, Apr 25: In an unexpected turn of events Shaimaa Selim, sister of Eman Ahmed, world's heaviest woman, weighing around 500 kg, has shot a video saying that her sister is very sick and she is not getting good treatment in Saifee Hospital in Mumbai where she was admitted to undergo bariatric surgery. The video was shot on April 14 inside the facility at Saifee Hospital. Shaimaa has called Dr

Raipur, Apr 24: At least 26 CRPF personnel were killed and six wounded in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district today, the deadliest attack by Naxalites targeting security forces this year. The Naxalites mounted the assault around 12:25 PM in Kalapathar area of south Bastar region, one of the worst-hit by Left-wing extremism in the country. The area is close to the Chintagufa-Burkapal-Bheji axis, the