WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange granted bail by UK court

Justice Gokhale contradicts Ex-CJI claim on Raja telephone call case

Justice H L Gokhale,  Supreme Court judge  and former Chief Justice of  Madras High Court  Justice  on Tuesday contradicted the claim of former Chief Justice of India, Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, that he was not aware of the fact that former Telecom Minister A Raja had tried to influence a Madras High Court judge in a […]

Obama stresses UNSC role in maintaining global peace

Three weeks before India joins the United Nations Security Council after a gap of nearly two decades, US President Barack Obama has underlined the significance of the UN’s 15-member powerful wing in maintaining world peace and preventing war. Obama dropped in a White House meeting of the National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, with Permanent Representatives […]

IAF helicopter crashes, 8 defence personnel injured

Eight defence personnel, including three crew members, were injured when an IAF helicopter crashed soon after taking off from the airport in Jammu on Tuesday morning. The Mi-26 chopper carrying defence personnel took off from the technical airport at Satwari in Jammu and crashed within minutes of take off at 0950 hrs, Defence Spokesperson Lt. Col Viplov Nath said. […]

HC dismisses Kasab’s juvenile plea

In a jolt to Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab, the Bombay High Court on Tuesday dismissed his plea to order an enquiry to determine whether he was a juvenile even as prosecution sought confirmation of death penalty awarded to him in the 26/11 terror attacks. In another development, the High Court asked the prosecution to file […]

PM worried about tapping, not corruption: Advani

Senior BJP leader L K Advani on Tuesday attacked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for asking the Cabinet Secretary to look into the issue of telephone tapping, saying he seemed to be more concerned about the leakage than the credibility of his government on the issue of corruption. “He (Prime Minister Manomhan Singh) is worried about […]

Nine TRS MLAs suspended

Nine MLAs of TRS were suspended from the Andhra Pradesh Assembly for the duration of morning session on Tuesday as they continued to disrupt the proceedings demanding unconditional withdrawal of cases filed against students during the statehood agitations in the last one year. The TRS members were evicted from the House by marshals on the […]

Pak owning ‘suicide bomber’ makes its intentions clear: Singh

Army Chief General V K Singh on Tuesday said the “intentions and ways” of Pakistan Army have “become clear” with it owning up a ‘suicide bomber’, who died in India, as one of its soldiers on its website. “I have nothing to say on what they (Pak Army) has put up on its website. But […]

Inflation down to 7.48 pc in Nov

Continuing with its trend towards moderation, inflation declined to 7.48 percent in November, mainly boosted by lowering of pressure on certain food items. Inflation had stood at 8.58 percent in October. It was 4.50 percent in November 2009. For September this year, the inflation figure has been revised upwards to 8.93 percent from the provisional […]

SC fines Maha for shielding Cong MLA’s money-lender father

The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up former Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh for preventing police from registering a criminal case against a Congress legislator’s money-lender father and imposed a staggering Rs 10 lakh fine on the state government. A bench of justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly rebuked Deskmukh saying, “The (former) […]