Jodhpur, February 21: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) told the Rajasthan High Court Tuesday that investigators and witnesses were getting threats in the missing nurse Bhanwari Devi case. The bench of Justice Govind Mathur and Justice K.C. Joshi asked CBI counsel Panne Singh to submit these claims in writing. The CBI's assertion ...

Amravati, February 21: Raosaheb Shekhawat, son of President Pratibha Patil and a Congress legislator in Maharashtra, was Tuesday questioned by police in connection with the seizure of Rs.10 million (over $200,000) in cash, police said. "Yes, he had been called for investigations into the matter. Further investigations are on," Amravati's Police Commissioner ...

New Delhi, February 21: The parents of Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya, NRI couple based at Norway whose children had been taken away by the Norwegian Child Care Service, are planning to sit in a dharna outside the Norwegian embassy in New Delhi from February 27 to March 1. Earlier, after a three-month ...

Hyderabad, February 21: A prominent Congress MP from Andhra Pradesh's Telangana region has warned that the feeling of betrayal and hurt among people there may give a violent turn to the movement for statehood and cautioned his party against waiting till the next elections. Madhu Goud Yaskhi, 51, wants the Congress-led United ...

Patna/Bhubneshwar/Chennai, February 20: The clamour against the proposed anti-terror hub continued Monday with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar writing to Prime Minister Manmonhan Singh expressing his opposition while his Odisha and Tamil Nadu counterparts Naveen Patnaik and Jayalalithaa sent second letters seeking dialogue between the two sides. In his letter, Nitish Kumar ...

Jodhpur, February 20: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is likely to file a report in the Rajasthan High Court Tuesday sttating that missing nurse Bhanwari Devi is dead, sources in the probe agency said here Monday. The report is in connection with a habeas corpus petition filed by Bhanwari Devi's husband ...

Panaji, February 20: Congress today released its election manifesto for next month's Assembly polls in Goa, promising up to 150 units of free electricity and water to the poor if voted to power in the state. The manifesto was released by All India Congress Committee general secretary Oscar Fernandes in the ...

Kolkata, February 19: Months after accusing the Maoists of triggering the 2010 Gyaneshwari Express train derailment - which killed 149 people - West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, a former railway minister, Sunday did a volte-face and blamed the Marxists for the tragedy. Banerjee in November 2011 held the Maoists responsible for ...

Panaji, February 19: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will institute a Lokayukta in Goa within 100 days of coming to power, according to the party's poll manifesto released Sunday. Former chief minister Manohar Parrikar told reporters during the release function that all illegal mining cases would be referred to the authority. He said ...

Kolkata, February 18: The security of the country is a shared responsibility of the centre and the state, union Home Minister P. Chidambaram said Saturday here at the inauguration of the National Security Guard (NSG) hub, an event that was not attended by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The home minister ...