Mumbai, February 10: The Bombay High Court Friday upheld the death sentence of three people, including a woman, convicted for the 2003 Mumbai twin-bomb blasts that killed 52 people. A division bench of Justice A.M. Khanvilkar and Justice P.D. Kode upheld the verdict of the special Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) court ...

Siliguri, February 11: Ahead of a meeting with the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), which has threatened to re-start the Gorkhaland campaign, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday said she wants a unified state and does not support those who want to divide the plains and the hills. "We don't want division, ...

Mumbai, February 10: A Mumbai court Friday extended the police custody of three accused in the July 13 serial blasts case that killed 27 people and injured over 125, a lawyer said. "The court has extended the remand of Naqi Ahmed Vasi Ahmed Shaikh, 22, and Nadeem Akhtar Ashfaque Shaikh, 23, till ...

Panaji, February 10: Even as the Congress has accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) of inciting communalism in Goa, poll officials here have said that they only stuck to official guidelines when they raided a Catholic priest Tuesday, following an anonymous call. "We have only acted as per the guidelines of ...

Hyderabad, February 10: Government employees from Telangana region in Andhra Pradesh Friday threatened to launch a protest from Feb 21, culminating in a strike, if the government failed to fulfil the promises made to them at the end of a 42-day-long strike last year. A delegation of Telangana employees' Joint Action Committee ...

Bhubaneswar, February 10: India Friday successfully tested a ballistic missile interceptor from a defence base in Odisha as part of its efforts to create a shield against incoming enemy missiles, a senior defence official said. The indigenous Advanced Air Defence (AAD) interceptor missile was fired from Wheeler Island off the coast near ...

Bhubaneswar, February 10: Maoists Friday blew up a vehicle of the Border Security Force (BSF) in Odisha's Malkangiri district, police said. Four security personnel, including a BSF commandant, were killed. The rebels triggered the blast near Balimela using an improvised explosive device (IED), Inspector General of Police (Operations) Y.B. Khurania told IANS. ...

Panaji, February 9: The three Karnataka ministers who were sacked for watching porn clips in the state assembly were "only watching and not doing it in action", a BJP leader said here Thursday. Leader of opposition Manohar Parrikar, asked about the three BJP ministers, told reporters: "There are people all across the ...

New Delhi, February 9: The Congress party Thursday described the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as a supermarket where a "spectrum of immorality and irregularity is available under one roof". Commenting on the resignation of three BJP ministers in Karnataka after they were caught viewing ponography on a cell phone in the state ...

Panaji, February 9: The Goa church has protested a raid by poll officials on a priest in Velim constituency, located 50 km from here, and seizing Rs.6,000 from him. Joint chief electoral officer N.S. Navti told reporters Wednesday that Rs.6,000 was seized from priest Romano Gonsalves during a raid by the poll ...