DMK leader K Karunanidhi’s daughter and the MD of Kalaignar channel K Kanimozhi has been denied bail in the 2G spectrum scam case. The MP is now likely to be sent to the Tihar Jail, where the other accused are also lodged under trial. Sharad Kumar, MD of Kalaignar TV too has been denied bail […]
Rehman Malik, Pakistan’s Interior Minister has accused the terrorists who attacked the PNS Mehran of helping Pakistan’s enemy. “They have destroyed the same ships that would have helped Pakistan detect enemy ships.. By destroying them, they have helped our enemy,” Malik said. Malik asked Pakistani people to realize who are the enemies of the state. […]
Delhi Police have reported a small explosion, seemingly from a gas cylinder in a car, outside the Delhi High Court. “There was a loud explosion and the area has been cordoned off,” said a police official, dismissing the theory that it could have been a bomb. No one has been reported hurt. The explosion happened […]
Indian government is facing embarrassment after one of the terrorists mentioned in India’s ‘most wanted’ list handed over to Pakistan was found in Thane, near Mumbai. Wazhul Khan, accused of carrying out the Mulund train blasts, was found living in Thane, after having been let off on bail. He was arrested him on May 10, […]
The Union Cabinet has approved conducting the next round of the Census of India to gather data on caste, religion and economic status of India’s 1.22 billion people. The main phase of the Census, that established the total number of people, their educational qualifications and other details like number of livestock and appliances got over […]
Kanimozhi’s lawyer Ram Jethmalani has said that she will appeal the judgement to deny bail in the High Court of Delhi. The details of the judgement has not been given out, with the judge OP Saini simply saying “bail plea has been dismissed,” after walking into the Court at 2:30 pm. Jethmalani said the appeal […]
Rehman Malik, Pakistan’s Interior Minister has urged people to not jump to conclusions about who was behind the attack on PNS Mehran , but described them as ‘fair and sharp-featured.’ He also seemed to hint at state-supported groups. Malik said none of the attackers were arrested alive, but the forces found three bodies. He also […]
India has gained the ignominious distinction for being the World’s biggest sender of phishing emails, according to this year’s IBM X-Force Report. Phishing mails try to trick the reader into parting with details such his phone number, bank passwords, credit card number etc by pretending to be an official mail from a bank, the government […]
The Britain-based Vodafone group has estimated that the Essar group may have to pay $1 billion (Rs 4,500 crore) out of the $5 billion it receives from Vodafone as tax to the Indian authorities, depending on the outcome of various cases in Indian courts. The British operator, which announced a 16.2% increase in year on […]
Nokia’s global mobile phone marketshare slipped by 5.5% year-on-year in the first quarter of this year, IT market research firm Gartner Inc has reported. It fell from 30.6% a year ago to 25.1% during the three months ended March 2011. Apple, HTC and Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE were the only big brands that saw […]
Special CBI judge OP Saini said bail is being denied to Kanimozhi, daughter of DMK leader Karunanidhi, so as to prevent any chance of witnesses in the case being influenced. “Considering the magnitude of the crime, the nature of the allegations, …there is no doubt that the accused have not made a case for bail..,” […]
DMK leader Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi will spend another week in Tihar jail as the Delhi High Court has adjourned her bail plea to May 30. The development is mixed news for Kanimozhi as the order setting aside the application for May 30 has come just one day after similar pleas by 5 co-accused were rejected […]
India has taken its total aid commitment in Africa to $5.7 billion over the next three years, prime minister Manmohan Singh said in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Abbaba moments ago. India had last month taken the overall aid to Afghanistan to $2 billion. Singh, who was participating at the Indo-African summit in the East […]
The 16 Karnataka MLA’s, who were disqualified by the Karnataka Speaker after they switched sides from BJP, have again lent their support to the party, according to BJP state unit. The BJP Karnataka unit has faxed their claim to the Karnataka Rajbhawan, claiming that they continue to have majority in the Assembly. The MLAs too […]
The Congress led UDF government will swear in on Wednesday in Kerala, UDF Convener PP Thankachan said. Thankachan also said that the selection of Oommen Chandy as the head of the coalition has been unanimously approved by the all the parties in the United Democratic Front. There are likely to be 21 Ministers — the […]
India’s ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has exempted the solar PV farms coming up in the country from having to seek environment clearance. India is in the midst of a massive program to increase its grid-connected solar power generation capacity from around 20 million watts at the end of the 2010 to 20,000 million […]
J Jayalalitha, who is being sworn in as Tamil Nadu’s new chief minister, is unlikely to join the Congress-led UPA at the Centre any time soon, according to sources in Chennai. While Sonia Gandhi has already invited the AIADMK supremo for ‘breakfast’ and congratulated her on her victory over Congress ally DMK, the feisty former-actress […]
Embattled Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa has claimed support from 121 MLAs out of the total 224 members in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. Yeddy, as he is popularly known, is on his way to the national capital Delhi where he plans to speak to the Prime Minister and the President of India. All BJP MLAs […]
The Supreme Court has again pulled up the agencies investigating the 2G scam — this time the Income Tax department under the Ministry of Finance. Disappointed with the “slow progress” of the probe into upstream investors of companies that got the controversial licenses in early 2008, the Court asked the agency to speed up its […]
The government will auction five more wireless broadband spectrum slots increasing the total wireless broadband players from 3 to 8 by the next year, going by what telecom minister Kapil Sibal told an international conference in Geneva today. Sibal, speaking at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva, said the total wireless […]
