Zakia Jafri, the widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri who was among the 69 killed in the 2002 Gulberg Society massacre here, has expressed shock at the "triviality" of the life sentence awarded to 11 persons and seven-year jail term to 12 others in the case on Friday and called it "travesty of justice"....
India on Friday said it had raised with Bangladesh the death threat from suspected Islamic State militants to a priest at the Ramakrishna Mission in Dhaka....
Lawyer R.K. Anand has lodged a complaint with Chandigarh Police against media baron Subhash Chandra, who won the recent Rajya Sabha election from Haryana with the BJP backing, and others, a lawyer said on Friday....
Ministry of External Affairs spokesman Vikas Swarup said in a statement here that the Indian high commission in Dhaka "had contacted both the Bangladesh police and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and have been assured of full support and protection"....
Notwithstanding denials of any exodus of Hindus from Kairana town by the Uttar Pradesh government, BJP MLA Sangeet Som on Friday gave a 15-day 'ultimatum' to the state for the return of those who migrated from the town....
Fourteen years after 69 people were massacred at a housing society here during the Gujarat riots, a court on Friday sentenced 11 of the 24 convicts to life imprisonment, one man to 10 years and 12 others to seven years in jail. ...
Security forces on Friday shot dead two militants holed up in a house in Jammu and Kashmir's Sopore town following a gun battle, police said. "Both militants have been killed in Chana Mohalla area," a police officer said here. "The firing has stopped but searches are going on there." Two AK-47 rifles and some ammunition were recovered from the slain militan...
The proposed merger of the State Bank of India (SBI) with its associate banks is the government's ploy to divert attention from the massive scale of corporate bad loans, said an official of All India Bank Employees' Association (AIBEA). "The central government is trying to divert the nation's attention from the Himalayan scale of...
Abhishek Chaubey’s "Udta Punjab" finally hit the screens on Friday accompanied by hype and expectation. According to trade experts, the controversy around the film "Udta Punjab" will give a tremendous boost to the opening of the film. ...
Opposing the central government's decision to merge State Bank of India's (SBI) five associate banks with the former, around 45,000 employees of the associate banks will strike on July 12, said a top official....
