A 24-year-old engineering student on Friday married his friend, a 22-year-old woman, who was reportedly gangraped in Bihar’s Banka district in his presence, last week. Rai Atul Krishna reports.
Though the crime branch is yet to decide on whether they would be making Rauf an accused in their case, officials said they were aware that he was known as 'Dada' was a friend of bookies Pawan Jaipur, and also of Vindoo Dara Singh.
Rahul Mahajani reports.
India is likely to get a fresh waiver from the sanctions imposed on doing business with Iran, a top the US official said here on Friday as she praised "tremendous progress" India made in reducing imports of oil from the Persian nation.
President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday expressed concern over repeated disruptions in parliament and state legislatures.
Counterterrorism police are questioning a friend of Michael Adebolajo, one of two men suspected in the savage killing of a British soldier.
Moving a step ahead of the ruling Congress and opposition BJP, Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party on Friday announced a rainbow of aspirants who have been shortlisted to contest the assembly polls due in November this year.
British Prime Minister David Cameron was warned of copycat attacks in the wake of the daylight slaying of a British soldier as the nation’s secret service on Friday came under the spotlight over allegations they could have prevented the assault.
Four army jawans were killed on Friday in a gunbattle with suspected Hizbul Mujahideen militants in Pulwama district, 45 km south of Srinagar — an incident that gave a blow to chief minister Omar Abdullah’s efforts to revoke the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from Jammu and Kashmir.
The alleged call-girl at the centre of a trial against Silvio Berlusconi told a courtroom on Friday that she had previously lied to investigators about raunchy parties hosted by the billionaire tycoon.
The British government on Friday defended the country's security services against criticism that they missed signs which might have helped prevent the brutal murder of a soldier on a street of south-east London.
The Congress on Friday formed a panel of 36 leaders who will articulate the party’s views in the electronic media as part of its preparations for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
A deadly Maoist ambush on a convoy of vehicles carrying state Congress leaders and workers in Chhattisgarh on Saturday killed at least 17 people and left several others critically wounded, police and survivors of the attack said. The dead included three state Congress leaders, former opposition leader Mahendra Karma, former parliamentarian Gopal Madhavan and ex-MLA Uday Mudliyar, while party veteran and former union minister Vidya Charan Shukla was among the injured.
Ejaz Kaiser reports.
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Major Maoist attacks in Chhattisgarh
The Senate on Thursday unanimously approved Srikanth Srinivasan as the most senior US judge of South Asian descent, amid speculation that he may one day be tapped for the Supreme Court.