India

Bijapur, Feb 3: The historical Gol Gumbaz, swathed in floodlight, its architectural marvel lit up in all its resplendant glory, in a play of light and shadow, will provide the galaxy of literati, converging in the City of Monuments – Bijapur, a perfect, pictorial backdrop for their post-diurnal literary deliberations. With the Mohammed Adil Shah ruled City playing host to the 79th Kannada Sahitya

New Delhi, Feb 2: Over a month after the brutal gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedical student in Delhi, five accused have been charged under 13 sections of the Indian Penal Code. The charges framed against the accused include gangrape, murder and destruction of evidence. The accused have been charged with murder, gangrape, destruction of evidence, criminal conspiracy, dacoity, unnatural

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 2: Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Saturday ruled out a re-investigation into the Suryanelli gang-rape case, saying top courts had cleared the allegations raised against Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairperson P.J. Kurien. The allegation levelled by the victim was not new and it had been investigated and cleared by courts including the Supreme Court, Mr. Chandy said. Terming

New Delhi, Feb 2: After careful scrutiny of papers submitted by the electricity distribution companies to the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) in the past couple of years, the technical experts committee of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has concluded that these companies were making huge profits while showing losses in their books to demand periodical rise in tariffs from the government

New Delhi, Feb 2: Shaken by the Nirbhaya case, the government on Friday approved a law prescribing death penalty for cases of rape which lead to the victim's death or her slipping into persistent vegetative state, going beyond the recommendations of the Justice JS Verma committee. An ordinance cleared by the Union Cabinet seeks to treat rapes resulting in death of the victim or causing her to be

Kolkata, Feb 1: Trinamool Congress leader Sultan Ahmed defended West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee saying she did nothing wrong in blocking author Salman Rushdie's visit to Kolkata. "There is nothing shameful, I am congratulating the state government for taking the right decision," Ahmed said. Hitting out at Rushdie, Ahmed said, "You cannot denigrate Islam and get away with it. I welcome

New Delhi, Feb 1: Diesel prices will be hiked by 40-50 paise per litre every month till losses on the nation's most used fuel are completly wiped out, Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily said today. "Until further orders, oil marketing companies can increase it (diesel price) by 40-50 paise (per litre) every month," he told reporters here. The government had on January 17 decided to move towards

New Delhi, Feb 1: In some relief to sociologist Ashis Nandy, the Supreme Court on Friday issued a stay on his arrest over alleged anti-dalit remarks. The court criticized him for his statements but protected him for arrest by any state government. When Nandy's counsel said he had no intention of hurting the backward class, the court asked why then was he making such statements when he did not

Kolkata, Feb 1: The radar of the Air Traffic Control at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport here stopped functioning, leaving the monitors which detect the planes blank, following a major technical snag and the entire flight operation was halted for two hours on Thursday. “ At 6:55 pm, the radar which captures the movement of the flights developed some technical problem and the

New Delhi, Feb 1: The Union Cabinet on Thursday paved the way for further consideration of Lokpal legislation in Parliament as it approved most of the modifications recommended by a Rajya Sabha Select Committee on its draft Lokpal Bill. The Cabinet approved 14 of 16 recommendations made by the committee. These include the mode of appointing the Lokpal and CBI director. The Cabinet, however