Jodhpur, May 14: The trial of former Rajasthan minister Mahipal Maderna, Congress legislator Malkhan Singh Bishnoi and 14 others -- accused in the case of nurse Bhanwari Devi's kidnap and murder in September last year -- commenced in a court here Monday, a lawyer said. The trial began in the additional chief ...

Dubai, May 15: Seven Indian nurses stranded in Saudi Arabia without proper documents have been rescued and repatriated following intervention by the Indian Embassy. The nurses were stranded in two separate cases without papers, an official working with the labour section of the Indian Embassy said. "In the first case, four Indian ...

Kolkata, May 14: A year after the Trinamool Congress-led West Bengal government promised to usher in industrial resurgence, investors and industry bodies say reforms are coming too slowly and there is policy indecision. "The new government had generated huge aspirations among all sections. But we are not very happy," Associated Chambers of ...

Hyderabad, May 13: CPI General Secretary S Sudhakar Reddy today urged the Centre to enquire and provide help to Indian workers in Angola, who were allegedly fired at when they demanded payment of salaries. A large number of Indian workers, agitating for their salaries, were allegedly fired at on May 9 ...

New Delhi, May 14: The Delhi High Court Monday restrained veteran Congress leader N.D. Tiwari from leaving India until he furnishes his blood sample for a DNA test. Justice Reva Khetrapal, hearing the plea of a man who claims to be the biological son, granted two days time to Tiwari to inform ...

New Delhi/Bangalore, May 13: The Bharatiya Janata Party was Sunday struggling to save its government in Karnataka, as former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa slammed his successor and party leaders while praising Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda, who succeeded Yeddyurappa last Aug 4, met BJP president Nitin Gadkari in ...

Patna May 13: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has written to his Karnataka counterpart D.V. Sadanand Gowda protesting against the state police arresting an alleged member of the banned Indian Mujahideen from Bihar without previously informing the local police, an official said. The arrest was a "violation of the rule of ...

Raipur, May 13: The Maoists Sunday night carried out a deadly attack on a patrol party of paramilitary Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district in which six jawans and a civilian driver were killed, police said. "Dozens of armed Maoists ambushed a vehicle carrying a patrol team of the ...

Kolkata, May 11: Claiming that she has got information that a certain political party held an internal meeting in Delhi on advancing the Lok Sabha polls to 2013, Trinamool Congress president and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday told her party workers to be ready. "I have heard that a meeting ...

New Delhi, May 11: In a major breather for underworld don Abu Salem, the Delhi High Court Friday dropped charges under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) in a 2002 extortion case. Justice V.K. Shali, allowing a batch of petitions filed by the Delhi Police and Abu Salem that ...