Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt was released from Pune’s high-security Yerwada Central Jail on Thursday morning, eight months shorn of completing his five-year sentence for his role in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts. The 56-year-old Mr. Dutt has often been accused of being given preferential treatment during his prison term mired in controversy in which he spent more than three months […]
» Read moreThe Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau has filed a charge sheet against senior NCP leader and former state minister Chhagan Bhujbal in the Maharashtra Sadan scam. His son Pankaj, nephew Sameer and 14 others are also named in the chargesheet. Bhujbal was PWD minister in the Congress-NCP government in Maharashtra. An ACB officer said, investigations revealed that the contractor earned 80% profit […]
» Read moreAll 23 people, including two children and two foreigners, on board a small plane were on Wednesday killed in Nepal after their aircraft crashed in a remote mountainous region amid poor visibility, in the country’s latest aviation tragedy. The Twin-Otter turboprop aircraft belonging to Tara Air had gone missing minutes after it took off from the airport in the resort […]
» Read moreThe Delhi High Court on Wednesday adjourned the hearing on Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student leader Kanhaiya Kumar’s bail petition to February 29, after the Delhi Police told the court that it would seek his fresh remand from a trial court. A Bench of Justice Pratibha Rani deferred the bail plea, without giving any relief to Kanhaiya, as the police […]
» Read moreTen Indian crew members of a ship, which was hijacked by pirates off the Ivory Coast, have been rescued with the help of the Nigerian Navy, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Sunday. She said the ship with 11 Indians was hijacked last Saturday. Ten Indian crew members had been rescued and efforts were on to secure the release […]
» Read moreFreedom 251”, touted as the world’s cheapest smartphone, closed on Saturday after the Noida-based company selling the phone said it could not deal with the “overwhelming response”. Ringing Bells Pvt. Ltd., set up by Amity graduate Mohit Goel in 2015, said in a statement on the Freedom 251 website that the response from the public “far exceeded the number we […]
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