Centre to train forest officials to stop poaching of big cats Indian Express | The officials of Uttar Pradesh Forest Department of the Project Tiger areas will be trained by the Central government about the latest techniques in science and technology to tackle poaching of big cats. | The week-long training programme, to be held by the end of this month, is being organised by...
Six held for hoarding sugar DNA India | Ahmedabad: Hoarding sugar turned out to be a bitter experience for six people in the city after the Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) arrested them for illegally stocking up the commodity. | According to officials, the six were arrested after an order of the district collector directing the police t...
Poverty could mitigate crime, even murder: SC The Times Of India NEW DELHI: The law is supposed to be enforced uniformly, and without sorting the guilty on the basis of their economic and social background. On Monday, however, the Supreme Court said that economic status of a murder convict needs to be taken into a...
Supreme court begins hearing own appeal against CIC DNA India | New Delhi: The Supreme Court (SC) began hearing on Monday an appeal by its registry against the central information commission’s (CIC’s) direction to divulge details regarding the promotion of certain high court (HC) judges to SC supers...
Attacker belongs to good family Deccan Herald Chandigarh, Feb 8, Agencies: | Chandigarh senior superintendent of police S S Srivastava said Utsav hailed from a good family background. Both his parents are professors, he said. Utsav’s father S K Sharma said his son was a brilliant student and one...
12.6 m child labour in India: Centre to SC Deccan Herald New Delhi, Feb 8, DH News Service: | The Union government on Monday told the Supreme Court that India has about 12.6 million child labour force engaged in different industries, about 44,000 are abducted every year and 200 enter prostitution every day...
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India, UK agree on text of civil nuke deal: Mandelson Zeenews London: India and the UK have agreed on the text of a landmark civil nuclear deal and a formal pact may be signed within a week, Britain's Business Secretary Lord Peter Mandelson a...
Hearing on application seeking action against Modi adjourned Indian Express | The Metropolitan Court today adjourned the hearing on an application seeking punitive action against VHP leader Kaushik Mehta and CM Narendra Modi in connection with the February...
For AI, it would have been cheaper to get baby food Mumbai Mirror | More than six years after Air India (AI) failed to provide special baby food and on-board facilities requested by a man for his six-month-old premature twins, the South Mumbai Co...
Indian murderer in Scotland jail wants to go home The Times Of India LONDON: Indian citizen Roshan Dantis, who has been jailed for life in Scotland for brutally murdering a Nepali student and extorting money from her husband, wants to be transferred to a prison in Goa. | Dantis, 30, was imprisoned for life in January,...
Rathore stabbed by NID student outside court Deccan Herald Chandigarh, Feb 8 (PTI): | Former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, convicted in the Ruchika molestation case, was today attacked and injured when a student of the prestigious NID posing as a journalist, stabbed him thrice in the face with a pocket knife outs...
Rathore stabbed in face outside court, attends hearing again (Fourth Lead) Samachaar Chandigarh: Former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore, convicted of molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra in 1990, was stabbed thrice in the face by a youth wielding a pocket knife outside the district court complex here Monday. | An injured Rathore, ...
President Mahinda Rajapaksa - Profile Sri Lanka News web | President Mahinda Rajapaksa (64), the fifth Executive President of Sri Lanka, was elected for a second term of office in the Presidential Election held on 26 January, 2010, with the Sri Lankan electorate recognizing him as the national leader who liberated the country from the terrorism of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTT...
Sudhir’s film leaked on internet The Times Of India Sudhir Mishra’s long-delayed film, Tera Kya Hoga Johnny, has been leaked on the internet. Starring Neil Nitin Mukesh, the slum movie has been uploaded on a video sharing website by unknown sources. | The team, as well as the industry, needless to say, is shocked. Mishra says that the version leaked on the internet is not the final copy and viewer...