Panaji: The brother duo and co-owners of the Goa club, where a blaze in Dec last year had left 25 people dead, surrendered before a local court along with a third accused Monday.Birch by Romeo Lane co-owners Gaurav and Saurabh Luthra and Ajay Gupta surrendered before the Mapusa court two weeks after the Supreme Court…
NEW DELHI: Flagging the issue of prosecuting agencies filing voluminous evidence and naming large number of witnesses in corruption cases, Supreme Court disapproved of the practice, saying it leads to protracted hearing and long pendency.While acquitting a person in a 33-year-old corruption case on the ground that CBI failed to prove that he received pecuniary…
PM Narendra Modi will turn 76 on September 17 NEW DELHI: BJP president Nitin Nabin Monday appealed to people to light a ‘diya’ at their homes on PM Modi’s birthday on Sept 17 for his long life, good health and continued success as part of his party’s “Aashirwad ka Diya” campaign.“Let us all light an…
NEW DELHI: An interesting situation may be unfolding in Nandigram and Rejinagar, with both factions of TMC, one headed by Mamata Banerjee and the other by Ritabrata Banerjee, naming their own candidates for the bypolls while claiming to be the “real” party entitled to use its reserved symbol.EC, which heard the two factions Saturday, asked…
NEW DELHI: An attempt by the Mamata Banerjee faction of TMC to hammer out an alliance with Congress for upcoming bypolls in Bengal did not materialise after the latter insisted on going it alone, reports Subodh Ghildiyal.Trinamool’s decision to announce candidates in Nandigram and Rejinagar Monday came well after Congress had named its nominees.But it…
TMC’s 20 rebel Lok Sabha MPs merged with little-known NPCI after defection Jalpaiguri/Kolkata: West Bengal’s rebel-MP saga got a fresh twist Monday, with Cooch Behar MP Jagadish Prasad Basunia claiming 17 of 20 TMC defectors who joined the little-known NCPI following the Mamata Banerjee-headed party’s defeat in assembly elections in April would cross over to…
The 18th Brics Summit was held at New Delhi’s Bharat Mandapam from Sept 13-14 NEWDELHI: The presence of chief ministers from BJP-governed states at the dinner for Brics leaders hosted by govt made it look like an entirely governing alliance affair, but official sources said that CMs hailing from opposition parties were also invited but…
Salem was extradited from Portugal on November 11, 2005, after a prolonged legal battle. NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has ruled that if a person is convicted in two cases and sentenced separately, the period of imprisonment undergone as an undertrial can be offset against only one of the sentences and not both even when the…
NEW DELHI: Govt has agreed to export 654MW of electricity daily to flood-ravaged Nepal for 18 hours a day till Dec 31. The ministry of power Monday said the recent floods caused significant damage to hydropower infrastructure in Nepal, reducing its domestic power generation capacity and creating an additional requirement for electricity, reports Atul Mathur.Beginning…
NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday said it has arrested former Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel’s former OSD Chetan Borghariya, who is presently additional collector of Balrampur-Ramanujganj, in the case of illegal appointments of DSPs and collectors through exam paper leaks.ED, which had earlier arrested former state public service commission (PSC) chief Taman Singh Sonwani,…