Bhopal: Three days after two mobile phone videos challenged Madhya Pradesh police’s version that eight fugitive SIMI suspects were killed in an encounter, a newly circulated audio recording has raised further doubts. The audio recording, purportedly from the police control room, suggests that police personnel on the field were underRead More

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed till further orders the execution of death sentence awarded to two convicts for murdering their brother and his entire family of seven, including three minors, in Jharkhand in 2007. A bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur granted liberty to theRead More

Imphal: Manipuri rights activist Irom Chanu Sharmila on Wednesday for the first time attended the anniversary programme to commemorate Malom Massacre which had prompted her to go on a 16-year-long hunger strike demanding the withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from the state. Wednesday’s event marked theRead More

Bhopal: Batting for fast-track courts to try terror cases, MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who has vehemently defended police role in the killing of eight SIMI operatives in an alleged encounter, has said the accused stay in jail for years before they are sentenced and “keep eating chicken biryani”.Read More

New Delhi: In a tit-for-tit measure, Pakistan has accused two diplomats working at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad of being involved in activities to “destabilise Pakistan by facilitating and funding terrorism” paving the way for their eventual expulsion from the country. Pakistani news channel Geo TV reported that CommercialRead More

New Delhi: A verbal battle ensued between Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi and Delhi Police personnel after the former was detained at the Mandir Marg Police Station for “disruption of duty”. Rahul was detained outside the RML Hospital when he tried to meet the family members of an ex-servicemen whoRead More

Gurgaon: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday lauded the steps taken by Haryana towards improving the adverse sex ratio and called upon the people of the state to take a pledge in its golden jubilee year to protect the girl child. Speaking at an official function to celebrate the goldenRead More

  New Delhi: Congress poll strategist Prashant Kishor on Tuesday held a two-hour meeting with Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, who is trying to cobble together an alliance of like-minded parties ahead of Uttar Pradesh assembly polls due early next year. Kishor, along with SP leader Amar Singh, metRead More

New Delhi: With cross-border firing escalating, Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday reviewed the situation along the Indo-Pak border where eight civilians were killed and 22 injured due to Pakistani shelling and two Pakistani soldiers killed after Indian forces retaliated. The meeting, attended by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, National SecurityRead More

New Delhi: Fast tracking the appointment of high court judges following apex court rap, the government has cleared 10 names for the Delhi and the Gauhati high courts even as it set in motion the process for the Supreme Court collegium to consider names for eight others as judges. TheRead More