New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the visiting South Korean President Moon Jae-in met here on Tuesday. Both the leaders are holding delegation-level bilateral talks. Earlier, on his arrival at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the visiting dignitary was received by President Ram Nath Kovind, his wife Savita Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “A special […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday dismissed the review petitions filed by three convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case. The Supreme Court also upheld it’s earlier order of sentencing the three convicts — Mukesh, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma – – to the gallows. All the three convicts sought a review […]
Islamabad: Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and daughter Maryam are set to challenge the accountability court’s verdict against them in the Islamabad High Court on Monday, a Geo TV report said on Sunday. The father-daughter duo was sentenced on Friday to 11 and eight years in prison and slapped £8-million and £2-million fines, respectively, in […]
New Delhi: BJP General Secretary Ram Madhav today rejected reports that his party was working to form a government in Jammu and Kashmir with rebel PDP MLAs and said that it was for continuing with Governor’s rule in the state in the interest of peace, governance and development. His comments on Twitter came after former […]
Delhi: A 13-year-old in Bihar was allegedly raped by eighteen people, including her school principal and two teachers, for seven months. The teenager has alleged that she was raped by 15 students of the school too, during this period. The principal and a teacher were arrested on Friday. Two students of the school have been detained. […]
The accountability court on Friday announced the verdict in the Avenfield corruption reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), handing ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif 10 years as jail time for owning assets beyond income and 1 year for not cooperating with NAB, Dawn reported. The sentences will run concurrently so he will serve […]
Siliguri: Five people were killed, of them a mother and her three-and-half-year-old son, and eight others were injured seriously in two separate car accidents in north Bengal, police said today. Aparna Saha (27), her son Soumyadip Saha and driver Kamalesh Dutta (21) died on the spot and four other occupants in Alto critically wounded when […]
Islamabad: In a major setback to Pakistan’s ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif, the accountability court today dismissed his petition seeking to delay by a week the announcement of the verdict in one of the four corruption cases against him. The court said that the verdict in the avenfield corruption case — pertaining to the ownership of […]
New Delhi: For the first time perhaps, a senior BJP leader Ram Madhav on Friday came out in defence of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj against the series of trolls against her over the passport row. “…..the obscenities like calling her (External Affairs Minister) Begum Sushma or worse commenting on her health and kidney — or […]
Patna: Two people were killed and six others injured in collision between two cars near Sukulpur village under Deedarganj police station area in the district today. Police said that two cars collided near the village leaving 8 people injured. Sources said that the injured were admitted to Nalanda Medical College and Hospital where two of […]
