India

New Delhi, May 28: Appearing in the court for the first time, former corporate lobbyist Niira Radia on Tuesday said she felt that Swan Telecom Pvt Ltd “was not eligible” to get the 2G Spectrum licences as it was said to belong to Reliance ADAG group company Reliance Communications. Testifying as a prosecution witness in CBI court in the case, she said that during the time of grant of spectrum

New Delhi: May 28: Intelligence inputs here suggest that Maoists’ politburo, the group’s highest decision-making body, had entrusted Left ideologue Katakam Sudarshan with the task of carrying out Saturday’s attack in Chhattisgarh to inflict the maximum damage on their target. The plan to ambush a convoy of Congress leaders was conceived by the seven-member politburo. Sudarshan is also a politburo

Raipur, May 27: In wake of the deadly Maoist attack on the Congress Parivartan rally in Chhattishgarh, more than 1,000 security personnel have been pumped into the jungles of the Naxalite-infested Bastar region for a major offensive against the ultras. "Over thousand security men are on a combing operation in the region (Bastar) after the attack on Congress leaders," director general of police

New Delhi, May 26: Shocked over the Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh, President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said the nation will neither be overawed nor intimidated by such actions. In his message, the President said, "I am deeply dismayed and shocked at the wanton violence unleashed by Maoists in Chhattisgarh on a convoy of vehicles carrying leaders of the Congress Party." "I condemn this incident in

New Delhi, May 26: For the third time in less than a week, the Delhi high court has decried that rape laws are often misused by women. Flagging the issue in a judgment on Saturday, Justice Kailash Gambhir said rape cases are being used as "a weapon for vengeance and vendetta" to harass and even force a boy to marry. While granting anticipatory bail to a man facing rape charges from a woman

Raipur, May 26: The bullet-riddled bodies of Chhattisgarh Congress chief Nand Kumar Patel and his son Dinesh, who were kidnapped by Maoists, were today found along with those of eight others in Jiram valley in Bastar. With the recovery of the bodies, the toll in the lethal Maoist attack on a convoy of Congress leaders yesterday has climbed to 27, police sources said. 32 people have been injured in

New Delhi, May 25: RK Mathur, a 1977 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre, took over as defence secretary on Saturday. According to an official release, Mathur has a rich and varied experience in public administration and has held senior positions at state and central levels. He has held the position of chief secretary of Tripura. He also served as the additional

Ahmedabad, May 24: The CBI has suspiciously gone soft on the cops accused in the 2004 Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, with an eye on information which may implicate their political bosses - former minister of state for home Amit Shah and chief minister Narendra Modi. Sources said both Modi and Shah may be summoned for questioning by the agency shortly. The CBI did not file chargesheet within 90

Kolkata, May 24: Mamata Banerjee has announced that her West Bengal government will acquire Tara Musik and Tara News, two of the 13 media outlets that the now-defunct Saradha group ran, on "grounds of humanity." The chief minister said the government would "give ex-gratia payment of Rs.16,000 each to the 168 employees of the two channels for the month of May." To acquire the two channels Mamata

New Delhi, May 24: Making it clear to all party unit leaders and workers as also Delhi Government functionaries that he did not have a soft heart like his mother Sonia Gandhi but was more resolute and determined like grandmother Indira Gandhi, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday gave the thumbs up to Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit’s functioning, and cautioned that indiscipline would