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Raja gets bail, can’t visit TAmil Nadu

May 16th, 2012

New Delhi: Former communications minister A. Raja, who has been in jail since February 2011, was Tuesday granted bail in the 2G spectrum allocation case but with the rider that he could neither visit the department of telecommunications (DoT) nor his home state Tamil Nadu. Raja, the last of the 14 individuals charged in the [...]

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Zardari sending plane to fly Chisty home

May 16th, 2012

Islamabad: Virologist Mohammed Khalil Chisty will return to Pakistan from India after 20 years in jail on board a special aircraft being sent by President Asif Ali Zardari, a media report said Tuesday. Zardari, during his meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi last month, had pleaded for clemency for Chisty, given [...]

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‘Govt yet to decide into statue scam inquiry:Akhilesh

May 16th, 2012

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday said that the state government would soon decide in which form an inquiry should be conducted into alleged irregularities to the tune of Rs 40,000 crore in installation of statues in memorials. “The government will soon decide in which form the inquiry should be conducted as [...]

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Accused in Gurgaon BMW hit-and-run gets bail

May 16th, 2012

Gurgaon: Suraj Sehrawat, 21, the accused in the BMW hit-and-run case in which two people, including a pregnant woman, were killed here, was Tuesday granted bail by a district court on submitting a bond of Rs.50,000. Sehrawat surrendered in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Jasbir Singh Tuesday morning. His lawyer was also with [...]

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Mirchpur dalits killings; HC rejects bail pleas of 3 convicts

May 16th, 2012

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today denied bail to three persons, convicted along with 12 others in the 2010 Mirchpur Dalits killings case. A bench of justices S Ravindra Bhat and S P Garg dismissed the interim bail applications of convicts Kulwinder, Dharambir and Ramphal, after perusing the reports furnished by senior superintendent of [...]

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13 Indians among 15 killed in Nepal air crash

May 15th, 2012

Kathmandu: Thirteen Indians were among the 15 people killed when their 20-seater aircraft slammed into a cliff in western Nepal Monday, less than seven months after 10 Indian tourists were killed in an air accident. Six people miraculously survived the crash. The Agni Air plane, carrying 16 Indians and two Danish passengers as well as [...]

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Order on summoning Army Chief in defamation case reserved

May 15th, 2012

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday reserved for May 18 its order on summoning Army Chief General V K Singh and four others on a criminal defamation complaint filed by former Lieutenant General Tejinder Singh. “The case is reserved for order on May 18,” Metropolitan Magistrate Jay Thareja said after conclusion of the arguments [...]

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