One person was killed while another injured in a major fire that broke out in a plastic factory in Narela, during the early hours of Saturday. The fire was doused after nearly nine hours of fire fighting. Both the victims are staff members of the factory. A fire department official said the call was made at 12.10 a.m. and two […]
» Read moreShiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad, who allegedly hit an Air India employee with his slippers on a plane on Thursday, is barred from travelling by not only Air India but also four other domestic airlines. ‘Air India and the member airlines of the Federation of Indian Airlines (FIA) that includes IndiGo, Jet Airways, SpiceJet and Go Air, condemn the assault […]
» Read moreA special court for CCB-CBCID cases in Chennai on Thursday dismissed a bail application moved by Yogendra Vasupal, co-founder of online home stay aggregator Stayzilla. Mr. Vasupal was arrested by the Central Crime Branch (CCB) on March 14, 2017, on charges of cheating and criminal intimidation. Dismissing his bail plea, Special Metropolitan Magistrate M.M. Kabir granted one day custody of […]
» Read moreTMC MP Kanwardeep Singh, who allegedly commissioned the Narada sting operation, has been booked by Kolkata Police. His son, Karan Deep Singh and other directors of Singh’s company, Alchemist, have also been booked under various sections related to cheating, criminal conspiracy, breach of trust by a public servant etc, a senior police official told The Hindu. The FIR was lodged […]
» Read moreA policeman was stabbed, an assailant shot and several people injured today close to Britain’s Houses of Parliament in what police said they were treating as a terrorist incident. Reuters reporters inside the building heard loud bangs and shortly afterwards a Reuters photographer said he saw at least a dozen people injured on Westminster Bridge, next to parliament. His photographs […]
» Read moreFormer Karnataka Chief Minister S.M. Krishna joined the BJP in the presence of party chief Amit Shah on Wednesday, ending months of speculation on his political plans. He was expected to join the BJP more than a week ago but could not because of a bereavement in his family. “Even now he was busy with some personal issues, but State […]
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