HC dismisses Adarsh Society plea for de-freezing bank accounts

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition filed by the controversial Adarsh Housing Society seeking de-freezing of its bank accounts. The CBI had in January frozen two bank accounts of the Society after registering a case against 14 accused including several members of the society. A division bench of justices Ranjana Desai and […]

Don’t have belief Govt will act on report: Hegde

Ahead of submission of his report on illegal mining, Karnataka Lokayukta Justice Santosh Hegde has said he does not believe the government would act on his findings. “As I said yesterday, I don’t believe the Government will take action”, Hegde, a former Supreme Court judge, told reporters in Bangalore on Wednesday. “They (the State government) […]

South Korea landslides leaves 17 dead, 3 missing

Heavy rain sent landslides barreling through the South Korean capital and a northern town on Wednesday, killing 17 and leaving at least three missing, officials said. Eight of the 12 killed in the early morning landslide in Chuncheon, about 68 miles (110 kilometers) northeast of Seoul, were college students who had been doing volunteer work, […]

Lawmaker: 40 Americans join terrorists in Somalia

More than 40 Americans have been recruited and radicalized by al-Qaida-linked terrorists in Somalia and have gone to the war-torn country to fight, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee says. Rep Peter King, a New York Republican, plans to outline the findings of his committee’s own investigation Wednesday during the third hearing in […]

We have come here with a positive outlook and look forward to genuine engagement with India respectful of reality: Khar

India-Pak Foreign Ministerial talks today

Building on the official-level talks, Foreign Ministers of India and Pakistan will meet in New Delhi today to discuss all aspects of the bilateral relations, particularly focussing on issues like terrorism, Jammu and Kashmir, trade and promotion of bilateral exchanges. External Affairs Minister S M Krishna and newly-appointed Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Kher will […]

Farmers’ petitions to be considered by larger bench: HC

All petitions challenging land acquisition by UP government in Noida and Greater Noida areas were on Tuesady referred to the Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court by a division bench with the request that a larger bench be constituted to decide the matter. Hearing petitions of hundreds of farmers from nearly a dozen villages of Gautam […]

78 dead in Moroccan plane crash

Seventy-eight people were killed and three injured on Tuesday when a Moroccan military plane slammed into a mountainside in bad weather in the country’s south, the Moroccan military said. The Hercules C-130 aircraft crashed into a mountain 10 kilometres (six miles) northeast of Guelmim, located about 830 kilometres (215 miles) south of Rabat, an army […]

Sohrabuddin case: SC refuses to consider sting operation

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to take on record contents of a sting operation which allegedly showed that CBI pressurised witnesses in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case to implicate former Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah. A bench of Justices Aftab Alam and R M Lodha expressed reservation in considering the sting operation as a […]

Will not be part of phone-tapping probe panel: Hegde

Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde has described as a “political game” CM B S Yeddyurappa’s appeal to the Prime Minister to constitute a committee to inquire into the alleged phone-tapping scandal. “I am the complainant in the case. I sit in an enquiry?”, quipped Hegde, a former Supreme Court judge, who last week claimed that his […]