India

Hyderabad, Dec 21: Air India barred 19 students from boarding its flight to the USA on the grounds that the two universities in which they had secured admission are under "scrutiny" of American authorities. The national carrier asked its staff to not allow the 19 students to board its flight to San Francisco at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here last night. The students have taken admission

New Delhi, Dec 21: Cutting across party lines, lawmakers today sought the passage of the amendments to the Juvenile Justice Act at the earliest amidst the clamour over the release of the juvenile convict in the December 16 gangrape case even as BJP and Congress traded charges over the delay in clearing of the legislation. Following the Supreme Court's dismissal of a plea against the release of the

New Delhi, Dec 21: A demand for expeditious passage of the amendments to the Juvenile Justice Act to allow children between 16-18 years to be tried as adults in heinous crime cases was made in the Rajya Sabha today, soon after the Supreme Court dismissed a plea against the release of the juvenile offender in the December 16 gang-rape case. As memories of the brutal 2012 Nirbhaya case returned with

New Delhi, Dec 21: With the Supreme Court rejecting the plea against release of the juvenile convict, the parents of the December 16 gangrape victim today said the courts have failed them and asked how many Nirbhayas would it take for the laws to change. The victim's mother Asha Devi said her fight against the system would continue."We were not very hopeful that the Supreme Court will give a

New Delhi, Dec 21: As the political slugfest over DDCA affairs intensified between AAP and Arun Jaitley, the party tonight hit back at the Finance Minister saying it will file an FIR against him. Jaitley had earlier said that he was slapping criminal and civil defamation cases against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and five other AAP leaders in Delhi courts for making "false and defamatory"

New Delhi, Dec 20: When it's about highways, Nitin Gadkari -- the 'flyover man from Maharashtra' -- seems to know the way to take it to a new high and his latest is linking Delhi with Thailand for an over 4,000-km road trip in 2016. "I don't believe in empty words... What I say I do," the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways said while listing out his priorities for the new year. As he

New Delhi, Dec 20: Scores of protesters, including the parents of the December 16 gangrape victim, were detained by the police after they staged a protest against the release of the juvenile convict near India Gate here today. The juvenile convict in the December 16 gangrape case was today released and sent to an NGO in Delhi, said a source. The protest started around 5 PM and within half-an-hour

New Delhi, Dec 20: Facing allegations of corruption, under-fire former Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) President Arun Jaitley today got the backing of the two biggest stars to emerge from the state-- Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir. Finance Minister Jaitley, who headed DDCA for 13 years till 2013, has been accused of corruption by the Delhi Government during his tenure. The state

Patna/Khagaria, Dec 20: Seven coaches of Katihar-Amritsar Amrapali Express derailed in Bihar's Khagaria district early today. There was no report of any casualty in the derailment that occurred at a place under Sonepur division of ECR. Seven coaches of 15707 UP Katihar-Amritsar Express including one AC-2, one AC-3 and five sleeper coaches jumped the track in between Patraha and Gouchari at around

Chandigarh, Dec 20: An FIR was lodged by the Haryana Vigilance Bureau on Saturday against the then chairman and Chief Administrator of HUDA for alleged irregularities in allotment of industrial plots in Panchkula three years ago when the then Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was at the body’s helm. The FIR was lodged even as Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar recommended CBI probe into