India

New Delhi, Apr 18: Media houses, issued notices for revealing the identity of the eight-year-old Kathua rape victim, on Wednesday apologised before the Delhi High Court and were directed to pay Rs 10 lakh each to the Jammu and Kashmir Victim Compensation Fund. Advocates representing media houses told the court that the mistake of revealing the identity of the victim was due to their ignorance of

Chennai, Apr 18: Under fire for patting the cheek of a woman journalist, Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit today tendered an apology to her. The 78-year-old governor had patted Lakshmi Subramanian on the cheek when he was about to leave the venue of a press conference, triggering an outrage by the journalist fraternity and opposition parties, including the DMK. In a letter to Subramanian, the

Kolkata, Apr 18: The nor'wester that hit the city and other districts yesterday left 15 persons dead and 50 others injured, the police said today. Of the 15, seven died in the city, six in Howrah district and one each in Bankura and Hooghly districts respectively, the police said. Nearly 50 people were injured in incidents of wall collapse, uprooting of trees and electrocution, the police said

Chennai, Apr 18: Even as he was parrying questions on allegations linking him to an audio tape in which the assistant professor of a Virudhunagar college, Nirmala Devi, is allegedly heard asking some students to offer sexual favours to higher-ups in Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU) in exchange of high scores and financial aid, Tamil Nadugovernor Banwarilal Purohit got dragged into yet another

Ahmedabad, Apr 17: Hardline Hindutva demagogue Pravin Togadia, who recently had to resign from the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, today began his indefinite fast in Ahmedabad, demanding among others construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya and enforcement of the common civil code. “After 50 years of my life dedicated to the welfare of Hindus, I was thrown out and for what… I didn’t ask for any posts, I

New Delhi, Apr 17: Congress President Rahul Gandhi today said the “terror of note-ban” has again gripped the country due to reported shortage of cash in several states and accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of destroying the country’s banking system with his demonetisation decision. The Congress chief, who is in his Parliamentary constituency Amethi, took to Twitter to attack Mr. Modi, alleging

New Delhi, Apr 17: ATMs in several cities across the country, operated by both state-run and private banks, are reportedly running dry. The problem seems to have affected ATMs in cities and towns across Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, according to media reports. One reason for this could be that cash withdrawals at some bank branches

Hyderabad, Apr 16: A special anti-terror court today acquitted Hindutva preacher Swami Aseemanand and four others in the 11-year-old Mecca Masjid blast case and shortly afterwards the judge resigned, in a stunning move dubbed as "intriguing" by a political party. K Ravinder Reddy, the special judge for NIA cases, tendered his resignation, citing "personal" reasons barely hours after pronouncing

Hyedrabad, Apr 16: Expressing disappointment over the acquittal of all accused in the 2007 Makkah Masjid blast case, a witness on Monday said that justice was both delayed and denied. Mohammad Irfan had spotted the second bomb and handed it to the bomb squad on the fateful day at the mosque. Speaking to media, Irfan said, "Today, the judgement that came reminds us of the popular English saying-

Kathua, Apr 16: The eight people accused of raping and killing an eight-year-old in January last in Kathua, Jammu and Kashmir, on Monday pleaded not guilty and asked the judge for a narco analysis test. As the trial in the case, which has become the focal point of outrage across the country, began in Kathua, seven of the accused were produced before District and Sessions Judge Sanjay Gupta, who