New Delhi, Oct 26 (IANS) Mumbai underworld don Chhota Rajan, a former key aide of fugitive Dawood Ibrahim, has been arrested in the Indonesian province of Bali, CBI director Ranjit Sinha confirmed here on Monday….
Islamabad, Oct 24 (IANS) A hoax call allegedly traced to the Indian financial capital, Mumbai, claimed that a bomb had been placed on the premises of the Sindh Governor House in Pakistan, the media reported…
New York, Oct 24 (IANS) An Indian-origin gynaecologist has been arrested in the US for allegedly accepting favours from a pharmaceutical company in return for prescribing its osteoporosis drugs, a media report said. Rita Luthra,…
Mumbai, Oct 23 (IANS) The police here have booked Bollywood playback singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya on charges of allegedly abusing and molesting a woman at a Durga Puja event late on Thursday night, an officer said…
Three unknown people created a ruckus in front of Tollywood actor and politician Pawan Kalyan’s residence in Hyderabad late on Tuesday night. According to reports, the miscreants, suspected to be fans of the actor, allegedly…
Washington, Oct 21 (IANS) An analysis of satellite imagery of nearly 1,300 archaeological sites in Syria has revealed that not just Islamic State (IS) terrorists, the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), opposition forces and the…
New Delhi, Oct 20 (IANS) Uber cab driver Shiv Kumar Yadav was convicted by a court here on Tuesday for raping a woman executive on the night of December 5, 2014, in his taxi she…
Johannesburg, Oct 20 (IANS) A great-granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi is being tried in South Africa for defrauding two businessmen of $830,887, a media report said on Tuesday. Ashish Lata Ramgobin, 45, appeared in the Durban…
Washington, Oct 18 (IANS) As many as 293 patients of an Indian-American cardiologist around a small town in Indiana have filed lawsuits against him and two other doctors in his practice claiming that they performed…
New Delhi/Bhubaneswar, Oct 17 (IANS) A retired IFS officer who acted as an observer in two Vyapam recruitment tests in Madhya Pradesh was found dead on a railway track in Jharsuguda in Odisha, police said…
Hyderabad, Oct 16 (IANS) A man from West Bengal who was allegedly planning to start a madarsa for ‘Jihadi training’ has been arrested, police said on Friday. Alimul Islam Mandal was arrested when he…
Hyderabad, Oct 15 (IANS) A city court on Thursday sentenced, to life imprisonment, a police constable who attempted to kidnap an industrialist by firing from a stolen AK-47 rifle. Puli Obulesu had opened indiscriminately from…
(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) New York, Oct 15 (IANS) Corruption of government officials tops the list of things that people in the US fear the most today, according to a new survey. Besides corruption, cyber-terrorism and…
Washington, Oct 15 (IANS) Apple faces the prospect of paying out damages to the tune $862.4 million for using without permission patented technology developed by a Wisconsin university team including two Indian-Americans. Gurindar Sohi and…
Rome, Oct 15 (IANS/AKI) Employees cannot be sacked for watching porn on the job provided they do so during their lunch break, Italy’s supreme court ruled, rejecting an appeal from car giant Fiat against a…
Gurgaon, Oct 14 (IANS) A cow shelter owner was fatally shot here on Wednesday after unidentified people fired at him thrice from close quarters, a senior police officer said. Sandeep Kataria, who ran Gau Raksha…
New Delhi, Oct 14 (IANS) Mahmood Farooqui, co-director of Bollywood film “Peepli Live” who is facing trial for the alleged rape of an American woman, on Wednesday sought interim bail. Farooqui is in judicial custody…
Washington, Oct 14 (IANS/EFE) Leonardo DiCaprio purchased the rights to a yet-to-be-written book about the Volkswagen emissions scandal, with an eye toward producing a film about the firm’s attempt to deceive regulators, a media report…
Kuala Lumpur, Oct 13 (IANS) Malaysian authorities said on Tuesday that partners in the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) on the MH17 incident are considering setting up an independent international court for an effective prosecution mechanism…
New Delhi, Oct 13 (IANS) A court here has set January 18 to hear arguments on issue of framing of charges in the 2000 match-fixing scandal case in which former South African captain Hansie Cronje…