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The Delhi high court reserved its verdict on Congress leader Sajjan Kumar's plea in a case relating to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots where a trial court has framed charges against him. The case relates to murder of six people in the city's Sultanpuri area. Justice ...

Reserve Bank of India Governor D. Subbarao, on Friday, briefed a Parliamentary panel on regulatory issues concerning the recent chit-fund scam in West Bengal and discussed steps that could be taken to prevent recurrence of such frauds. According to sources, ...

The comments from Federal Reserve Chairman on possible scale down in US monetary stimulus programme sent jitters across the global stock markets, including India, on Thursday. Weak manufacturing data from China, world's second-largest economy, also aided the ...

_ A special CBI court on Friday reserved its order on the bail application of suspended IPS officer G L Singhal, an accused in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case.After hearing the arguments, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate S H Khutwad said he ...

The Centre has cleared a proposal to grant the famous Rajaji National Park in Uttarakhand the status of a tiger reserve. The proposal for elevating the status of Rajaji National Park as a tiger reserve sent to the Ministry of Environment and Forest ...

The Kumars (name changed) in Rabindra Nagar stay on the first floor of a rather old accommodation reserved for government employees. With no access to a garden, the family has converted their terrace into a patch of greens with a mix of seasonal plants and ...

A forest guard fell to a colleague's bullet during a mission to drive back a herd of elephants in the Buxa Tiger Reserve late on Thursday, leaving his shocked bosses and co-workers struggling to find an explanation for the bizarre death. As the forest ...

With three Congress MPs from Telangana almost severing ties with their party as a prelude to joining the TRS very soon, the Congress leadership has started scouting for alternative candidates for these seats for next years Parliament elections. The party is ...

Service aimed at serving passengers who cannot secure reservations and are ready to travel in unreserved coaches South Central Railway will for the first time run a Janatha Special completely with unreserved second class coaches to Kakinada from here on ...