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New Delhi, Dec 22: As his government sought to defend itself by asserting that it had no role in picking prosecutors or directing their work, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy left them red-faced. Swamy virtually blamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for ignoring his warnings about law officers who were not serious about fighting corruption. Swamy said: "This is not a setback at all. It's an aberration

Washington, Dec 22: India today joined 127 other countries to vote in the United Nations General Assembly in favour of a resolution opposing the recent decision of US President Donald Trump to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Nine countries voted against the resolution, while as many as 35 countries abstained. India's decision to vote against American recognition of Jerusalem as the

New Delhi, Dec 21: A passenger on Wednesday took to Twitter to complain about a cockroach on a food plate at Air India's lounge for premium passengers at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, forcing the airline to apologise. "Dear @airindiain cockroaches on food plates at your Delhi Lounge for business and first class passengers. Disgusting," Harinder Baweja, a journalist by profession

New Delhi, Dec 21: Special CBI Judge O P Saini today ruled that despite having "religiously" devoted seven years to 2G scam cases, no "legally admissible evidence" was placed before him by the CBI. The judge made the remark in his verdict acquitting former telecom minister A Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi and several others, including top corporate honchos, in three separate cases probed by the CBI and

New Delhi, Dec 21: Former telecom minister A Raja and DMK MP Kanimozhi were today acquitted by a special court in the 2G spectrum scam case. Fifteen other accused in the case and three companies were also acquitted. Others acquitted in the case are former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura, Raja’s erstwhile private secretary R K Chandolia, Swan Telecom promoters Shahid Usman Balwa and Vinod Goenka

Dec 21: The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives gave final approval on Wednesday to the biggest overhaul of the US tax code in 30 years, sending a sweeping $1.5 trillion tax bill to President Donald Trump for his signature. In sealing Mr Trump's first major legislative victory since he took office in January, Republicans steamrolled opposition from Democrats to pass a bill that

New Delhi, Dec 20: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may either be holding back Rs 2,000 notes or could have stopped printing high denomination currency, says a SBI Research report. Juxtaposing the data presented in the Lok Sabha recently with the one provided by RBI in its Annual Report earlier, the SBI Ecoflash report said on Wednesday, "we observe" that the value of small denomination currency in

Jaipur, Dec 20: In a shocking incident, a man set his two wives on fire reportedly for not keeping his mother happy, police said on Wednesday. The accused, Deepa Ram, on Tuesday took his two wives Daria Devi (25) and Mali Devi (27) in his car on the pretext of buying them jewellery, the police said. Ram claimed that he was unhappy with them due to some family matters and as they did not keep his

Hyderabad, Dec 20: A Dalit woman was stripped and beaten by the henchmen of politicians in Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday, for opposing encroachment in the name of housing under the NTR Griha Kalpa scheme. The incident occurred in survey number 77, Jerripotulapalem, under Pendurthi police station limits. The incident, which took place on Tuesday evening, came to light on Wednesday

In a new twist to the sensational actress attack case, the statements of Kavya Madhavan, wife of popular Malayalam actor and eighth accused Dileep, apparently revealed details of the caustic ties between her husband and the assault victim. Kavya in her statement to the police had disclosed that Dileep had nursed a grudge against the young actress, who was brutally attacked in a moving car in Kochi