New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) A Delhi court Tuesday asked police to file a status report on a plea seeking registration of a first information report (FIR) against three policemen for alleged lapses in handling a five-year-old girl’s gang-rape case. Special Judge Narottam Kaushal sought the report from police by [...]

Ranchi, May 14 (IANS) Former chief minister Madhu Koda was Tuesday granted provisional bail by the Jharkhand High Court to look after his ailing mother. This was the second occasion when he was afforded the relief. Koda, the only son of his parents, was allowed by the court to attend [...]

Mumbai, May 14 (IANS) Apprehending death threats from fundamentalist groups, Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, convicted for the March 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts, wants to surrender in Pune’s Yerawada Jail. Dutt moved an application Tuesday seeking permission to surrender in Yerawada Jail instead of giving himself up before Special TADA [...]

New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi Tuesday said she was “pained” at society’s failure to counter violence against women and called for it to be proactive in providing a safe and secure environment for women and girls. “We have been shocked by the violence that girls and [...]

Ghaziabad, May 14 (IANS) Murdered teenager Aarushi Talwar’s dentist parents, accused in the killing, were Tuesday allowed by a court here to leave the national capital region for filing a plea in the Allahabad High Court to summon some witnesses. Rajesh and Nupur Talwar needed the permission from Central Bureau [...]

Haridwar, May 14 (IANS) Social activist Anna Hazare visited Shanti Kunj here, the headquarters of the Gayatri Parivar, and began his Jan Jagran Yatra for Uttarakhand Tuesday. Speaking at the Mrityunjaya auditorium at the Dev Sanskrati University here, Hazare said he felt “charged” after visiting the campus and called for [...]

Dubai, May 14 (IANS) Responding to an appeal by Indian Ambassador Hamid Ali Rao, 400 expatriate Indians have registered as volunteers to help Indian workers in that country affected by a new labour policy. The ambassador again appealed to illegal Indian workers to rectify their residency status or leave the [...]

Chennai, May 14 (IANS) The Madras High Court Tuesday ordered interim stay of the order of state public works department (PWD) withdrawing the structural stability certificate issued for M.A. Chidambaram stadium enabling the conduct of the Indian Premier League (IPL) match between Chennai Super Kings and Delhi Daredevils. The court’s [...]

Kolkata, May 14 (IANS) Opening a new avenue in the raging Saradha Group chit fund scam probe, the Calcutta High Court Tuesday allowed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to investigate the case. “Taking suo motu cognisance of the scam, based on media reports, we approached the court seeking a direction that [...]

Kochi, May 14 (IANS) A Kerala court Tuesday expressed its displeasure over the manner in which the CBI conducted a probe into the involvement of two Kerala Police officials in an alleged custody death. The Ernakulam chief judicial magistrate, while hearing a plea filed by the brother of murder suspect [...]